2020-03-06 TOEFL: speaking 2

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-likely-is-a-shark-attack-gerd-gigerenzer
https://twitter.com/justsaysrisks - Reports the absolute risk changes for various research headlines.
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Speaking Section: third section, after the break, 17 minutes total, 3m45s speaking, 4 tasks
- The TOEFL changed in August. Speaking tasks 1 and 5 were eliminated from the test.
1 (old 2) independent, choice question - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
2 (old 3) integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation - 30/60
3 (old 4) integrated R/L/S, academic text and lecture - 30/60
4 (old 6) integrated L/S, academic lecture - 20/60
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Task 2 (used to be task 3) - ETS G.1 example
- 45 seconds to read a text about a change on campus (already happened, planned, or suggested)
	- What is the change? (no more free bus service)
	- Why? (few students use it, it’s expensive - money saved will go to new parking)
- listen to a conversation between students
	- Who has the opinion? man
	- What opinion? bad change
	- Why? (two reasons)
		- bus routes are old so students don’t live in those areas any more
		- more parking means more traffic and noise on campus; should discourage driving
- read/hear the prompt
- 30 seconds to prepare your response
- 60 seconds to record your response
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Your response can be organized like this:
1 Introduction: summarize the change and reasons from the text
2 Thesis statement: state the speaker’s opinion (“The man thinks this is a bad change.”)
3 Lead-in: (“He gives two reasons to support his opinion.”)
4 First reason (“First, he says people don’t ride the bus because the routes are old.”)
5 Detail/example (“They go through neighborhoods where students don’t live any more, so…”)
6 Second reason (“Second, building more parking will…”)
7 Detail/example
(8 Conclusion - if you have extra time)
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read
- no more bus
	no students
	expensive
listen
- bad change
	old routes
	parking = + traffic, should discourage driving
During the preparation time, you probably shouldn’t need to write a new outline, you can just go back and mark your existing notes to make it clear which points you’ll talk about.
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ETS 1.1
- What is the proposal? - adding evening computer classes
- Why would they do this? - complaints that classes are overcrowded and not enough computers
- What does the student think? - he disagrees with this proposal
- Why does he think this?
	- students are busy at night (so couldn’t take evening courses)
	- adding new courses would be more expensive than buying new computers for existing courses
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Record your responses to ETS 1 tests 2-4.
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BREAK
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Listen to your recordings. Pick the one we can listen to as a class.
Listen to your classmates’ responses. What’s good and bad about each one of them?
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Homework (optional): If you want more feedback on your writing than a score and one or two sentences, email me with a self-evaluation. What could you have done better? What do you think you did well? What can you work on for next time?