2018-03-21 TOEFL: listening organization

Greg Malivuk
greg.malivuk@gmail.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/cannibalism-in-the-animal-kingdom-bill-schutt
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Homework: finish 1.5.B (DELTA p. 99-100) and do the rest of the handout (p. 89-91)
Compare your answers with your partners’ and convince them of your answer if you disagree.
Handout:
21 T
22 F
23 T
24 T (Lacking leadership by being in management mode is a failure of leadership.)
25 F (The thermometer scale is mentioned because that’s not how nerves work.)
26 T (The familiar mathematical concept is “the number zero in the number system”.)
27 T
28 T
29 F
30 F
31 T
DELTA exercise 1.5.B
4 B
5 D
6 A
7 A
8 C
9 C
10 D
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Listening Question Types:
- detail/fact
- function/meaning
- main idea (content or purpose)
- prediction
- purpose
- inference
- attitude
- organization
Listening Passage Types:
- conversation
- lecture
- class discussion
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DELTA p. 252-253 - Examples of organization questions and some different types of organization.
p. 254 - Listen and take notes, then answer the questions.
1 C
2 C
3 D
4 B
5 D
6 B
7 A
8 A C
p. 255 exercise 2.6.B - Do the same for this exercise
1 C
2 D
3 A
4 C
5 D
6 O B A O
7 B
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Watch the TED-Ed video and take notes as if it were a TOEFL listening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3CjTU7TaNA
How could we describe the organization of this “lecture”?
- Comparison of solutions to the problem of seeing in the dark.
1 tarsier - big eyes
2 cat - reflective eyes
3 toad - slow eyes
4 moth - coarse eyes (compound eyes with low resolution)
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BREAK
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Handout (Oxford) p. 300 - Answer the pre-listening questions.
Listen to the lecture and take notes. Then answer the questions.
1 a
2 b
3 - 2 3 3 1 1 2
4 - 1 1 3 1 2
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p. 302 pre-listening discussion
What does the phrase “comfort food” mean? Food that people eat for (emotional) comfort.
How might it be related to gender?
Listen and take notes, then answer the questions.
1 c - The professor talks about all four things, but only (c) describes the organization of the information.
2 a
3 - 2 1 1 2
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p. 303 - communication styles
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4488 - About the “invented statistic” that claims women talk significantly more than men.
Listen and take notes. Then answer the questions on p. 304-5.
1 c
2 d
3 - 2 1 2 1 1 2
4 - 2 2 1 2 1 1
“mansplaining”
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p. 306 - Listen and take notes, then answer the quesitons.
1 d
2 c
3 - 2 2 2 1 1 1
4 - 2 1 1 2
5 a/c
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Tomorrow we will work on independent writing.