2018-02-23 TOEFL: speaking 3, int writing

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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DELTA p. 493 - Take 45 seconds to read the announcement. Then listen to the conversation.
“The woman expresses her opinion about the attendance policy. State her opinion and explain the reason she gives for holding that opinion.”
- Sometimes the conversation will include both people’s opinions and some reasons, so make sure you focus on the person mentioned in the prompt.
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Your response could have these parts:
1 Introduction: Summarize the content of the announcement.
	“The students are talking about the new attendance policy, which states that…”
2 Thesis Statement: Summarize the overall opinion of the speaker.
	“The woman thinks the attendance policy is a good policy.”
3 Lead-in: “She gives two reasons for her opinion.”
4 First reason: “Her first reason is that she thinks the policy is fair.”
5 Detail/Example: “Professors have the right to set their own rules, and if they have to attend class, then it’s reasonable to expect all students to attend class as well.”
6 Second Reason: “Her second reason is that students understand better when they come to class.”
7 Detail/Example: “Discussion and asking questions are important parts of learning and students may not understand everything if they just read the textbook at home.”
8 Conclusion (if you have time)
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Read and listen to ETS 1 test 3 speaking task 3.
Take 5 minutes with your partner to prepare a “perfect” response to the prompt.
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Record your responses to ETS 2 tests 1-3.
Listen to your recordings and decide which one we can hear as a class.
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BREAK
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Listen to your classmates’ recordings. Did they include all the important parts? Were they easy to understand?
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Writing Section: final section of the test, two tasks:
1 Integrated: 3 minutes to read a text about a topic, then listen to a lecture about the same topic, then 20 minutes to write about the points from the lecture and how they relate to the reading
2 Independent: Read a prompt (a choice question), 30 minutes to write an essay responding to it
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Take 3 minutes to (re)read the text about online encyclopedias from last week.
R0 = online encyclopedias are worse than paper encyclopedias
R1 = lack academic credentials
R2 = easy to delete or corrupt the information
R3 = too much information about trivial topics makes them seem more important than they are
What possible responses can you predict to these criticisms?
Listen and take notes on the lecture.
L0 = online encyclopedias are good or perhaps better than traditional ones
L1 = both have errors, but online errors can be corrected very quickly and easily
L2 = there are ways to protect information and to undo malicious changes
L3 = online encyclopedias have unlimited space, so they don’t need to have details only about important topics
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A simple format for the response is point-by-point:
- Introduction: state/explain the topic and summarize the main idea of the text and the lecture
- First point: summarize the first point from the text, then summarize the point from the lecture and explain how it relates to the point from the text
- Second point: summarize the second point from the text, then summarize the point from the lecture and explain how it relates to the point from the text
- Third point: summarize the third point from the text, then summarize the point from the lecture and explain how it relates to the point from the text
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- topic, R0/L0
- R1, L1
- R2, L2
- R3, L3
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Make sure in your writing to be clear about where the different points come from.
In the text / According to the reading / The writer says
The speaker says / According to the listening / In the lecture
This contradicts/opposes/challenges/casts doubt on/refutes the point from the text.
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Homework: write a response to the integrated writing task that will be at the link I email to you