2018-06-15 TOEFL: writing practice, speaking 4

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Writing practice, ETS guide test 1.
Email me when you are finished.
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BREAK
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Speaking Task 4
- 45-50 seconds to read a paragraph from an academic text
- listen to part of a lecture on the same topic
- hear and read the prompt
- 30 seconds to prepare your response
- 60 seconds to record your response
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DELTA p. 292 - take 45 seconds to read about color
- color can have physiological effects
- perceptions are subjective but some things are universal
- red = warm, blue = cool
Listen to the lecture and take notes
warm colors - comfort, love, anger
	red - warmest, raise blood pressure and heartbeat, NOT hospitals or prisons
	orange - energy, enthusiasm, malls and restaurants
cool colors - calm effect
	blue - peace, security, water, sky, calming effect, use in bedrooms and doctors’ waiting rooms
	green - fresh, nature, health, most popular favorite color, can improve vision, good for offices
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“Use the examples from the lecture to explain the effects of color.”
- This doesn’t ask about design choices, so the most important things will be the emotional and physiological effects.
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Your response can be organized like this:
1 Introduction: State the topic and summarize the main concept from the text.
2 Lead-in: State what points the professor makes. “The professor discusses warm colors and cool colors.”
3 First point
4 Detail/example
5 Second point
6 Detail/example
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Take 5 minutes to prepare a “perfect” response to ETS 1 test 1 (nonverbal communication)
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Record your responses to tests 2-4.
Listen to your responses and decide which one we can hear as a class.
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Homework: If you want more feedback on today’s writing than a score and a sentence, email me a self-evaluation where you say what you think you did well, what you did badly, and what you will try to improve next time you do writing.
	You can use the descriptions at https://www.ets.org/s/toefl/pdf/toefl_writing_rubrics.pdf to know what things to look at.