2018-05-18 TOEFL: speaking 5, compare/contrast

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Speaking Section: third section, after the 10-minute break following listening
- six tasks, 20 minutes total, 5.5 minutes speaking
1 independent, open-ended - 15 seconds to prepare, 45 seconds to speak
2 independent, choice question - 15/45
3 integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation - 30/60
4 integrated R/L/S, academic text and lecture - 30/60
5 integrated L/S, conversation about a problem and solutions - 20/60
6 integrated L/S, academic lecture - 20/60
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Speaking Task 5
- listen to a conversation about someone’s problem and possible solutions
- read/hear a prompt telling you to summarize the problem and pick a solution
- 20 seconds to prepare your response
- 60 seconds to record your response
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DELTA p. 563 - Listen and take notes about the conversation.
- What’s the problem? She wants to take statistics but the class is full.
- What solutions do they discuss?
	Register for both statistics and calculus (to be on the waiting list for statistics)
	Talk to the professor of the statistics class to see if he’ll make an exception.
- Which solution do you think is better? Why?
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Your Response:
1 Introduction: explain the problem and list the solutions they talk about
2 Your Opinion: state which solution you prefer
3 Lead-in: “I have two reasons for this opinon.”
4 First reason
5 Detail/example
6 Second reason
7 Detail/example
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At least one of the reasons can be an advantage or disadvantage they talked about in the conversation.
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Your notes for listening to this conversation can almost always be basically the same:
P:
S1:
    but:
S2:
    but:
Then you just need to circle the solution you pick and the reasons for it.
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ETS 1 test 5 - Listen to the conversation and take notes. Then take 5 minutes with your partner to prepare a “perfect” response.
- Intonation, pauses, and transition signals can make it easier or harder to understand when you go from one idea to the next.
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Record your responses to ETS 2 tests 1-3
Listen to your responses and decide which one we can hear as a class.
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BREAK
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Listen to your classmates’ responses.
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Handout - Compare/Contrast vocabulary - Complete the sentences with correct transitions (sometimes more than one answer is possible).
1 similarities between
2 Both...and
3 have in common...both
4 In the same way / Similarly / Likewise...also
5 Like / Similar to
6 were similar to / resembled
7 Neither...nor
8 difference between
9 While / Whereas
10 however / on the other hand / in contrast
	(These also can go at the beginning of the sentence.)
11 Unlike / In contrast to / Compared to (“compared to” is the only one that would work if the sentence had a comparative adjective).
12 is different from / differs from
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“likewise” is an adverb - It can modify verbs or entire sentences
“like” (to express similarity) and “unlike” are prepositions - They are followed by noun phrases.
“while” and “whereas” are conjunctions - They are followed by complete sentences.
	(They’re subordinating conjunctions, so they’re followed by a dependent clause and you also need an independent clause.)
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