2018-03-07 TOEFL: reading paraphrase, listening att/purp

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: handout exercise 3R8 (vocabulary) and 3R10 (paraphrase questions)
3R8
1 community
2 corporation
3 correspondence
4 eventually
5 environment
6 involvement
7 promoting
8 unique
9 vision
10 schemes
11 developed
12 projected
13 annual
14 initiatives
15 purchasing
16 revenues
17 exploitation
18 commitment
19 sustainable
20 acquisition
21 corporate
22 expanded (notice that “grown” is a past participle, so the word in the text needs to be, too)
23 multinational
24 motive
25 volume
3R10 - paraphrase questions
1 d (They sold their business to Unilever, not just one shop.)
2 c (a and b add something the original sentence didn’t include, d leaves out that this was promotion)
3 c (a says the 7.5% went to the peace drive, but the sentence doesn’t say that)
4 c (They didn’t organize or rally for transgressions, they fought against them.)
5 c (This sentence doesn’t talk about their unique marketing strategy, even though b is a true statement.)
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DELTA p. 116-118 - Take 6 minutes to finish exercise 1.6.A. (Remember, you don’t need to read the whole text closely to choose the correct answer to a paraphrase question.)
Compare your answers with your partner and discuss why the other answers are wrong.
5 D
6 B
7 C
8 A
9 D (Human beings originated in Africa. They came to America from Asia, but that’s not where human beings first existed.)
10 C (The text doesn’t say the melting glaciers attracted migrants from other parts of the continent.)
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p. 119-121 exercise 1.6.B - Take 10 minutes to answer the questions. Then compare your answers in a group and discuss why you think other answers are wrong.
1 D
2 A
3 C
4 B - “lobes” are parts or areas
5 C
6 A
7 B
8 D
9 B
10 A
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BREAK
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Listening Question Types:
- detail
- main idea (purpose or content)
- inference
- prediction
- function
- purpose
- attitude
- organization (how does the speaker organize the information)
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DELTA p. 215 describes some typical purpose questions (The first two groups are more main idea questions).
p. 216 describes some attitude questions. There can also be questions about how certain a speaker (usually the professor) is about some information
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p. 217 - Listen to parts of conversations and take notes. Then answer the questions.
1 B
2 A
3 D
4 C
5 B
6 A
7 C
8 C
9 A
10 B
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p. 218-219 exercise 2.3.B - Do the same with discussions and lectures.
1 A
2 D
3 A
4 C
5 D
6 A
7 D
8 A
9 C
10 B
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Cambridge L21 (on the board) - Listen to parts of conversations and identify the attitude of each speaker.
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Handout (Cengage) p. 309 - Listen to the conversation and take notes. Then answer the questions.
1 D
2 A
p. 311 - Do the same with this conversation.
3 B
4 A
5 C
6 A
p. 312 exercise 11.2 - Do the same for lectures and discussions.
1 C
2 C
3 D
4 A
p. 314-15
5 D
6 B
7 C
8 A