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- Greg Malivuk
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- http://www.projectbread.org/walk - Walk to raise money for hungry people in Boston and MA.
- (Sunday morning, May 1st. 16 km)
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- Reading packet handout p. 10 part A - Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words in the paragraph
- 1 separate
- 2 enhance
- 3 cultivate
- 4 harvest
- 5 produce
- What part of speech are these words? - verbs
- (parts of speech: verb, noun, adjective, adverb, conjunction, pronoun, preposition, article, interjection)
- What are the nouns for each of the above verbs?
- separate - separation
- enhance - enhancement
- cultivate - cultivation
- harvest - harvest
- produce - production (the act of producing things), product (the thing produced)
- What are some adjectives we can make from these words?
- separate - separate, separated, separating, separable
- enhance - enhanced, enhancing
- cultivate - cultivated, cultivating
- harvest - harvested, harvesting, harvestable
- produce - produced, producing, productive
- Adverbs?
- separate - separately, separably
- enhance - (no)
- cultivate - (no)
- harvest - harvestably
- produce - productively
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- We use suffixes to change parts of speech. The ones above are productive, meaning they can be used to create new words.
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- part B - Skim the article on the next two pages (for 20 seconds) to figure out the main topic.
- It might be possible to guess ‘b’ without looking at the article, because this is the type of thing TOEFL readings are often about.
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- p. 13 - question types
- purpose - usually related to the main topic or idea, you can probably answer it by skimming
- detail - specific information in the passage, you can skim for numbers or for key words in the answer options
- sequence - asks about the order something happens, you can look for sequence words like “first”, “second”, “finally”, etc.
- negative detail - asks about information that is NOT in the passage, look for the ones you can eliminate
- inference - information that is implied, not stated directly; find where the information is mentioned and read that paragraph to figure out the implications
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- Homework: p. 13-14 (13 is about the reading on p. 11-12)
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