2016-03-25 Pre TOEFL: listening/speaking task

Greg Malivuk
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Handout: Cambridge TOEFL p. 343-346, 360-363

Tuesday and Wednesday: Independent speaking (15-45)
Yesterday: Integrated reading/listening/speaking (30-60)
Today: Integrated listening/speaking (20-60)

They are the same two types of listening as before (conversation and lecture), but this time there’s no reading.
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Other handout p. 33 - Listen to the conversation and take notes.

How many ways to memorize vocabulary did they talk about?
- Use word roots (“arthro” = “joint”, “pod” = “foot”) and related words (arthritis and tripod)
- Visualization (she has a mental picture of the animals in each group)
- Color-coding (e.g. red for words you don’t know, green for words you know)
- Make a song or poem that uses the words to help you associate them together. (mnemonic)

Response:
intro - what is the problem? (The woman has trouble memorizing vocabulary for her class.)
	- summarize the conversation (Summary of the 4 techniques they discuss)
response - What is your answer to the question? (Which technique(s) do you prefer? Why?)

What are some reasons someone might pick each of the 4 techniques?
(pick the one that’s easiest for you to justify, whether or not it’s true for you)
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The speaking and writing tasks should treat the reader as though they know almost nothing about the topic or about the things you read and heard before doing the task.
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p. 34 - Listen to part of a lecture and take notes.

What are the three types of atmospheric phenomena the lecturer talked about?
1 halo - refraction from ice crystals are randomly scattered and it looks like a ring around the sun or moon
2 sun dog - refraction from horizontal ice crystals and it looks like a bright spot on each side of the sun
3 sun pillar - reflection from horizontal ice crystals and it looks like column of light above the rising or setting sun
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Pronunciation is important: reflection and refraction are not the same thing, and in this listening you needed to hear the difference and should probably say both words in your response.