2016-12-14 TOEFL: listening function, reading fact

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-neuroscience-of-imagination-andrey-vyshedskiy
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Handout (Oxford) p. 371 - Pre-listening Discussion
Listen and take notes on the conversation.
1 c
2 b
3 b (From his tone you should be able to tell that he’s unhappy or apprehensive about the health assessment.)
4 c
5 b
What do we say if we want to (briefly) change to an unrelated topic in a conversation?
“By the way, …”
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DELTA p. 247 - What conversational language can someone use for each of these functions? In pairs, think of one word or phrase for each function.
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Skip ahead in your handout to (Cengage) p. 322-325. Listen and take notes on the excerpts. Then answer the questions.
1 A
2 A
3 B
4 B
5 D
6 A
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Reading question types:
- vocabulary
- fact
- negative fact
- paraphrase / sentence summary
- reference
- inference
- purpose
- sentence insertion (second-to-last question)
- categorization / organization
- summary (categorization or summary are the last question)
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BREAK
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Fact questions are the most straightforward reading question. The main difficulty is that answer choices are almost always paraphrased to use different words than the passage.
Handout (Cambridge) p. 181 - Read the first two passages and decide if each statement is true or false.
1 A T
  B F (it was rejected twice and then accepted the third time)
  C T (“military risks” are a security threat)
  D T
  E F (“bore” can mean to make a hole in something)
  F F (There was no construction in 1930. The proposal was rejected because of cost, risks, and doubt.)
  G F
  H T
2 A T
  B F (The animal was probably that size, but the fossils are smaller.)
  C F (The animal lived on land.)
  D T
  E T
  F F (Whales can recognize the source because the bones are separated.)
  G T
  H T (“The separation of those bones in marine whales” implies that whales living in the sea have separated bones.)
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Handout p. 30-32 (Cengage) - With a partner, find where in the passage the answer to each question is. (You don’t need to write the answer to the questions, just underline where the answer can be found.)
1 paragraph 1 - “According to legend,...”
2 paragraph 1 - “In emergencies,...” (This is a negative fact question.)
3 paragraph 2 - “made false teeth from African ivory.”
4 paragraph 3 - “and only two of these graduated.”
5 paragraph 3 - “has recently been restored as a museum of dental history.”
6 paragraph 4 - “two methods of reducing pain”
7 paragraph 4 - “Two years later, in 1846,...”
8 paragraph 5 - “Early decay, …”
9 paragraph 6 - “These power drills, which were at first called ‘dental engines’”
10 paragraph 6 - “These drills work...drilling produces.”
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In groups of 3 - Each read one of the articles from p. 51-53 (Longman) and summarize the main points to your partners once you’ve all finished reading.
After you’ve heard the summaries, skim each text quickly to find the answers to the fact questions that follow.
1 D (“crescent-shaped”)
2 A (“the ninth largest lake in area”)
3 D (“one-fifth of the world’s total fresh water”)
4 C
5 B
6 C (1837 is before 1850, so it’s the first half of the century.)
7 A
8 D
9 B (“...Switzerland also produced postage stamps later in the same year.”)
10 C
11 A
12 D
13 C (A contradicts “quite sophisticated” and D contradicts “unlike any tools that have been found in the Old World”. B contradicts “the first tools of this sort were discovered in 1932”)
14 B
15 D
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Remember: answer fact and detail questions according to the reading or listening passage you get, even if you think the information is incorrect.
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Homework: DELTA p. 20-22 - Read the passages and answer the questions.
	Optional: complete p. 182 of the handout (more T/F statements)