2017-05-10 TOEFL: listening function, reading inference

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: DELTA p. 249-250 - Listen to the audio (on the CD or the website I sent you) and answer the function questions.
exercise 2.5.A
1 D
2 A
3 B
4 C
5 A
6 B
exercise 2.5.B
1 B
2 D
3 D
4 A
5 C
6 B
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rhetorical question = a question for which the speaker isn’t waiting for an answer (either because the answer is obvious or because it’s a situation where the listener can’t answer), usually in order to call attention to something or to create interest in the question the speaker will address later
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DELTA p. 257-258 - Listen and take notes, then answer the questions. (Don’t read the questions until the listening is finished.)
1 D - main idea
2 B - function
3 A C - detail
4 C - detail
5 D - function
6 C - main idea
7 B - organization
8 A - detail
9 D - detail
10 A - purpose
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Reading Question Types:
- fact
- negative fact
- vocabulary
- inference
- purpose
- reference
- paraphrase
- sentence insertion
- summarize
- categorize/organize
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Inference questions: draw conclusions about the topic that are not stated explicitly (but they still have to be implied in the passage)
DELTA p. 76 - read the passage and answer the two questions in the boxes (Don’t read the text outside the box)
1 C
2 D
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p. 80-81 - Take 5 minutes to answer these four inference questions. Then check your answers with your partner.
1 B
2 A
3 C - “solar energy converted to chemical energy in trees” = solar energy is stored as chemical energy in these things
4 C
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Podcasts are basically downloadable radio programs to play on your computer or music player.
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BREAK
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DELTA p. 82-83 - Take 8 minutes to answer the rest of the questions in 1.4.A, then check with a partner.
5 B
6 D
7 B
8 B (“eases anxiety” is more similar to reducing stress than “reduce depression” is)
9 D
10 C
p. 84-86 exercise 1.4.B - Take 12.5 minutes to answer the questions about these passages. Check with a partner.
1 A
2 C
3 D
4 B
5 D
6 C
7 A
8 D
9 B
10 C
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When you practice reading on your own time, read about academic topics you don’t already know a lot about. Look for popular sources of this type of information, because high-level academic journals will be too technical to be helpful. (In other words, find things written for a general audience, not for other experts in the field.)
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Speaking Section: third section, after the 10-minute break; six tasks are always in the same order:
1 independent, open-ended - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
2 independent, choice - 15/45
3 integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation - 30/60
4 integrated R/L/S, academic text and lecture - 30/60
5 integrated L/S, conversation about a problem and solutions - 20/60
6 integrated L/S, lecture about an academic topic - 20/60
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Speaking Task 3 - p. 286 - Take 45 seconds to read the announcement.
Changing campus food service, vote for two options
- first would expand the main cafeteria and close the snack bars
- second would close the main cafeteria and open more eating places
Then listen to the conversation and take notes.
“The man expresses his opinion about the campus food service. State his opinion and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.”
His opinion: prefers the second option
Reason 1: main cafeteria is too crowded (long line, no tables, no bike parking); more places to eat means less crowded
Reason 2: restaurants spread around is more convenient (location) and more restaurants means more variety of things to eat, such as BBQ.
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Tomorrow we will practice some speaking like this.