2017-10-26 TOEFL: writing practice, listening gist

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/explore-cave-paintings-in-this-360-animated-cave-iseult-gillespie
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Writing Practice - ETS 2 test 1
When you’re finished, email your responses to me at [email protected]
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BREAK
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Listening Section: second section (after reading)
- 60-90 minutes total, 2 or 3 sets of 3 listenings each (one conversation and two academic)
- 10 minutes to answer the (17 or so) questions from each set
Listening Question Types
- detail
- main idea (content or purpose)
- inference
- purpose
- prediction
- organization
- function
- attitude
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Main Idea / Gist Questions
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DELTA CD 1.1 - Listen to the conversation and answer the question in your own words.
p. 197 - Notice the wrong answers. They use the same (or similar-sounding) words as the conversation, but with different meanings.
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Cambridge exercise L9 (p. 265, CD 2.13) - What topic will be discussed in the rest of the lectures.
1 The countries in the United Kingdom
2 The Award for Architecture
3 Irish Linen
4 Human- and animal-shaped figures carved in hillsides
5 A talk on the geology of Mars
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exercise L10 - What is the topic going to be?
1 C
2 B
3 D
4 D
5 A
6 D
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Sometimes the topic is in the first sentence, but other times the topic is introduced at the end of the introduction.
Exercise L11 - Decide whether the first sentence introduces the topic. (And in your own words, what is the topic?)
1 Yes - magic squares
2 No - public zoos
3 No - the Pony Express
4 Yes - Malaysian butterfly farm
5 No - gargoyles
Exercise L12 - In each of these introductions the topic changes. Identify the topic in your own words.
1 Developing a way to write down dances
2 Reasons for settling in the Americas (specifically North America)
3 The lack of (reliable) historical value in contemporary photography
4 Official language(s) in the US (or lack thereof)
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Tomorrow we will work on speaking, so bring a phone you can record audio on.
You will NOT need your books tomorrow.