2019-02-27 TOEFL: reading fact, listening gist

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: Answer the questions for passage 1 (35-38) and 3 (40-42).
	Also: answer the T/F questions from passages 3 and 4 on the first handout
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Check your homework with your partner. (Or do it with your partner if you didn’t do it at home.)
Passage 3 (T/F)
A. T
B. F
C. F (it gives off glue, not a scent)
D. T
E. T
F. F
G. T
H. T
Passage 4
A. F (It is unmatched, meaning other violins can’t match a Strad. “rival” works the same way)
B. T
C. T
D. F
E. F (The color is mentioned as a detail, but is not important to the quality.)
F. T
G. F
H. T
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Mesa Verde
1 B
2 A
3 C (it means “Ancient Ones” in Navajo, but “no one knows what the Anasazi actually called themselves”)
4 B (or C, if the sentence at the end of the 4th paragraph also refers to paragraph 3 - “Early Pueblo Period” is not one of the names historians use today for this time)
5 C
6 B (maybe C)
7 D
8 C
9 A
10 B
11 C (The other three are listed in paragraph 7, and paragraph 6 ends with, “the Anasazi had no known enemies, and there is no sign of warfare”)
Passage 3
19 A
20 C
21 D
22 B
23 A
24 C
25 C
26 D
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Listening Question Types:
- detail
- main idea (topic or purpose)
- inference
- purpose/method
- prediction
- attitude
- function (replay)
- table completion (basically a type of detail question)
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Cambridge (on screen) exercise L9 - Listen to the first sentence of a lecture. In your own words, what will the main topic of each lecture probably be?
1 the United Kingdom (and its countries)
2 the Award for Architecture
3 Irish linen
4 (human- and animal-shaped) figures carved in hillsides
5 geology of Mars
L10 - Choose the main topic from the first statement.
1 C
2 B
3 A
4 D
5 A
6 D
L11 - Is the topic introduced in the first statement?
1 Yes
2 No
3 No
4 Yes
5 No
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BREAK
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L12 - What is the topic? (It’s not what’s mentioned in the first statement.)
1 development of ways to write dance moves
2 reasons settlers decided to come to the Americas
3 the lack of historical value in modern photography
4 official language policies in the US
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Cengage p. 261 exercise 9.1 - Listen and take notes. Then answer the main idea questions about conversations. Also answer my detail questions about each one.
1 C
2 B
3 C
4 A
5 A
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p. 265 exercise 9.2 - Do the same for lectures.
1 D
2 B
4 D
5 C
6 A
7 C
8 B
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Tomorrow: writing