2018-08-15 TOEFL: reading fact, listening att/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/what-really-happened-to-the-library-of-alexandria-elizabeth-cox
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Homework: Cengage pages from the handout (35-42) - answer all the questions about these three passages
Check your answers with your partners. Convince your partners if you disagree.
1 B
2 A
3 C
4 B “In the next 300 years” (C is not unreasonable - the given years are 550 and 1100 AD)
5 C
6 B
7 D
8 C
9 A
10 B
11 C
12 D
13 D (2, 3, 4 strings = course, each course = 1 note, 12-22 courses = 12-22 notes)
14 C (“although some musicologists challenge this classification” = some musicologists disagree)
15 A (Negative fact questions often require scanning the whole passage.)
16 B
17 A
18 C (It was during the folk revival, but they didn’t create the revival.)
19 A
20 C
21 D
22 B
23 A
24 C
25 C
26 D
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Stress (and vowel reductions) are an important part of English pronunciation.
“Two teas to two-two-two.” makes sense if an American says it because “to” will be pronounced “ta”, very quickly, so we recognize it as the preposition, not the number.
‘I know that that “that” had had “had had” before it in the first draft.’
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Listening Section: 2 or 3 sets of listenings and questions
	each set has three listenings: one conversation, one lecture, and one discussion
	each set has about 17 questions (5 for conversations, 6 for classroom listenings)
	each set takes about 30 minutes total, including 10 minutes to choose answers
Listening Question Types:
- main idea / gist
- purpose
- inference
- attitude
- organization
- prediction
- function
- detail
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BREAK
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DELTA p. 215 - Attitude and Purpose Questions
- Purpose questions require you to remember how a piece of information fits in the rest of the conversation or lecture.
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Handout (Cengage) exercise 11.1 - Listen and take notes, then answer the questions.
1 D
2 A
3 B
4 A
5 C
6 A
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p. 312 exercise 11.2 - Do the same for lectures and discussions.
1 C
2 C
3 D
4 A
5 D
6 B
7 C
8 A
9 C
10 A
11 B
12 D
13 B
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Cambridge exercise L21 (on the screen) - Identify the speakers’ attitudes
1 A D
2 B D
3 B C
4 A C
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Homework: DELTA p. 217-220 exercises 2.3.A, 2.3.B, and 2.3.C (audio is at the link in your email)