2017-06-14 TOEFL: listening organization, ind writing

Greg Malivuk
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: Handout p. 24-25 (about Coral Colonies)
1 A
2 C
3 B
4 A
5 B
6 D
7 A
8 C
9 D
10 B
11 D
12 B
13 A
p. 116-117 exercise 6.1
1 paintings
2 flowers
3 water
4 principles, human body
5 strands
6 smaller pieces
7 leaves
8 ancient Minoans, archaeological sites
9 mushrooms and other fungi
10 machines
11 glaciers, altitudes
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Listening question types
- purpose
- inference
- attitude/stance
- prediction
- function
- main idea (content or purpose)
- detail
- organization
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DELTA p. 252 - Listen to part of a lecture and answer the question.
At the bottom of 252 are some common organization questions, and at the top of 253 are some common answers.
What are some ways to order a talk or lecture?
- chronologically
- similarities then differences / differences then similarities
- problems then solutions
- increasing/decreasing importance
- easiest to hardest / hardest to easiest
- spatially (e.g. a history lecture about an ancient city; a biology lecture about the cell; a geology lecture about the interior of the Earth or layers of rock)
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p. 254 exercise 2.6.A - Listen to the short talks and answer the questions about each one
1 C
2 C
3 D
4 B
5 D
6 B
7 A
8 A C (D also happens but is not a step in controlling avalanches)
p. 255 exercise 2.6.B
1 C
2 D
3 A
4 C
5 D
6 opposite, basal, alternate, opposite
7 B
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p. 257 quiz 6 - Listen to the conversation and answer the questions.
1 D
2 B
3 A C
4 C
5 D
6 C
7 B
8 A
9 D
10 A
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BREAK
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Types of questions in quiz 6
1 main idea
2 function
3 detail
4 detail
5 function
6 main idea
7 organization
8 detail
9 detail
10 purpose
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Last weekend, you wrote in response to this prompt:
“Happiness has different meanings for different people. Some people find happiness in their work, while others find it in personal relationships or in liesure activities. What makes you happy and why? Please give details and examples to support your response.”
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With your group, look at sample response essays 1 through 6 (p. 511-513 on the handout) and decide what score each one should get, and why.
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“Hedge your bet.” = Do something else so that if you lose your original bet, it’s not as bad for you.
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Essay 1: The conclusion talks about what you should do to be happy, which isn’t really what the question asked. There are a number of small but basic grammar mistakes. The two ideas are not fully developed. The introduction is quite good. The organization of the whole essay and the conclusion are also good.
Essay 2: It doesn’t answer the question and mostly repeats words from the prompt.
Essay 3: It picks a different option from the ones in the prompt (this is fine, but it’s important to notice). It uses the three options from the prompt to support the writer’s opinion that attidude is more important. There’s no verb in the first sentence, but this error is not repeated like missing the subject is for essay 1. There are several missing articles.
Essay 4: It answers the question (about what personally makes the writer happy). It’s much too short and has many grammatical problems. It’s not clear whether one teacher or teachers in general make the student happy.
Essay 5: Clear and well-organized. There are two body paragraphs but they are much better developed than in the other essays with only two supporting points. There are some minor mistakes that don’t interfere with comprehension.
Essay 6: This attempts to specifically answer the question (money, English, love, and education), but none of the individual answers are developed enough.
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Essay 1 gets a score of 3
2 - 0
3 - 4
4 - 2
5 - 5
6 - 1
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The second part of the handout includes comments from the person evaluating each response, to explain why it got that score.
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The difference between a 2 and a 3 can sometimes come down to whether you have a good framework to organize your ideas (with transition signals, details and examples, etc.)
Before you begin to answer, you can type a framework:

Some people think
Others believe
In my opinion,
I have three reasons for this

The first reason is
For example

The second reason is
For example

The final reason is
For example

In conclusion, I believe               because
In the future
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When you add your information to this, you may want or need to change some of the words (maybe you’re not talking about reasons but advantages, for example), but the framework should help you get started.
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Framework for integrated writing:

The lecture and the reading are about
The professor states that
On the other hand, the author believes

First, the lecture says
This contradicts what the reading says about

Second, the lecture says
This challenges the point from the reading that

Finally, the professor argues
This casts doubt on the point the author makes about
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No homework today. Tomorrow we will practice integrated and independent writing in the computer lab.