2019-01-16 TOEFL: listening purpose

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/the-truth-about-electroconvulsive-therapy-ect-helen-m-farrell
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Homework: finish the handout (passages 1, 4, 5)
Check your answers with your partners. Try to convince them of your answer if you disagree.
1 B
2 A
3 A
4 B
5 C
6 A (It’s an example of a device that is not primarily designed for game-playing.)
7 D
14 B (The passage says there are languages like that, but the rest of the text is about languages with multiple noun classes.)
15 C
16 A
17 D (Asking “However, is it useful?” suggests that the author thinks it’s not.)
18 A
19 C
20 C
21 B
22 A
23 A (Erosion there has been more dramatic than average, so it’s not typical.)
24 B
25 A
26 D
27 D (His position is that both methods are not very effective, and the studies support this position.)
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tic-tac-toe (AmEng) / noughts and crosses (BrEng)
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Listening Question Types:
- main idea
- detail
- inference
- purpose
- function
- prediction
- attitude
- organization
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Handout (Cengage) purpose and attitude questions, exercise 11.1 - Listen to the conversations. Then answer the questions about each one.
1 D
2 A
3 B
4 A
5 C
6 A
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p. 312 exercise 11.2 - Now do the same thing for lectures and discussions.
1 C
2 C
3 D (While she isn’t interested in participating herself, she doesn’t say she disagrees with anything.)
4 A
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5 D
6 B
7 C
8 A
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9 C
10 A
11 B
12 D
13 B
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How can you get better at listening for the TOEFL?
- Practice taking notes. (The more you practice, the easier it will become to take good notes while also hearing and remembering the important information.)
- Watch videos and listen to podcasts about academic topics that you are not familiar with.
	This is good listening (and note-taking) practice.
	It also should help you learn some ideas and vocabulary from those fields.
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Homework: watch a video on YouTube about a topic you’re not familiar with, which you will briefly summarize to your partner tomorrow