2017-09-28 TOEFL: speaking 6, listening function

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Speaking Task 6
Your response will have these parts:
1 Introduction: briefly describe the overall topic (explain what managers do in general)
2 Lead-in: Tell what ‘points’ the speaker gives (“The professor describes three types of managers.”)
3 First point (“The first type is the general manager.”)
4 Detail/Example (“The general manager is responsible for…”)
5 Second point
6 Detail/Example
(There may also be a third point.)
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Record your responses to ETS 1 tests 3, 4, and 5.
Listen to your own recordings and choose the one we can hear as a class.
Listen to your classmates’ responses. Do they include all the parts above? Are they easy to understand?
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Listening Section: second section, after reading
- 60-90 minutes for 2 or 3 sets of 3 passages each (1 converstation and 2 academic)
- 10 minutes to choose answers for each set, which is about 17 questions.
Listening question types:
- main idea (content or purpose)
- detail
- function
- inference
- organization
- attitude
- prediction
- purpose
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DELTA CD 4.1 - Listen to the conversation and answer the question in your own words.
p. 247 - Examples of what function questions look like (they very often include listening again to part of the converstation or lecture).
These are often questions about something a speaker does indirectly.
p. 247 - With your partners, think of at least one way a speaker could perform each of these functions indirectly in a conversation or lecture.
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DELTA p. 249 exercise 2.5.A - Listen to parts of conversations and answer the function questions.
1 D
2 A
3 B
4 C
5 A
6 B
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p. 250 exercise 2.5.B - Now do the same with parts of lectures and discussions.
1 B
2 D
3 D
4 A
5 C
6 B
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Handout (Cengage) p. 321 - Listen to the parts of conversations and decide if each statement is true or false.
1 T - The man is being sarcastic.
2 F - The woman is being sarcastic.
3 T
4 T
5 F
6 T
7 T
8 F
9 T
10 F
11 T
12 F - Some of them were too long.
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Handout (Longman) p. 144 - Listen to the conversation and answer the questions.
5 D
6 B
7 C
8 A
9 B
10 D
11 A
12 C
13 B
14 D
15 C
16 A
17 B
18 A
19 D
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Attitude questions are related to function questions, in that you again have to pay attention to things like tone of voice.
p. 152 - Listen to the conversation and answer the questions.
1 B
2 C
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Homework: complete the worksheet; audio is available at the link I will email to you