2017-05-08 TOEFL: vocabulary, reading test

Greg Malivuk
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 404 topic 1:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
A student must like a teacher in order to learn from the teacher.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
Email your responses to me at [email protected]
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Reading Vocabulary Questions handout (Oxford) p. 4
1 c
2 c
3 b
4 b
inflected words: the base word with grammatical endings (in English this only includes person and tense endings for verbs, and plurals for nouns; other languages may also include grammatical gender and case inflections)
derived words: related words that include the same root, but have prefixes and suffixes which change its meaning and function
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Suffixes in English generally change the part of speech or change the reference within a part of speech.
Prefixes alter the meaning of the root in some way.
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http://corpus.byu.edu/ - Many different collections of English text (as well as a couple other languages), which you can search for frequency and usage examples.
http://books.google.com/ngrams - Search for the frequency (now and historically) of words or phrases in English books
http://www.wordandphrase.info/analyzeText.asp - Type words on the left and click “search”, then click on those words on the right to see more information about them.
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Handout p. 11-12
1 a
2 c
3 d
4 c
5 b
6 b
7 b
8 c (7 and 8 depend a lot on the specific context of the reading passage)
9 d
10 a
11 b
12 d
13 b
14 d
p. 14-15
1 a
2 b
3 d
4 b
5 d
6 d
7 b
8 a
9 a
10 b
11 b
12 c
13 d
14 b
15 d
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BREAK
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Reading test (ETS past tests 2, test 3) - take 20 minutes for each passage
Check your classmate’s answers.
Write the total (out of 45) on the first page.