2017-07-12 TOEFL: reading inference, listening inference

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: Handout p. 205-207 exercise R18 AND (Cengage) p. 64-66 exercise 3.1
Check your answers with your partner.
1 A. I - “The recipients of MacArthur Prizes are people who have already achieved considerable success.”
  B. I
  C. R “This money frees...people...and allows them the time to devote themselves to creative thinking.”
2 A. I
  B. R
  C. I
3 A. R
  B. I
  C. R
4 A. R
  B. R
  C. R
5 A. I
  B. I
  C. (not stated)
6 A. R (This could be the answer to a fact or a paraphrase question.)
  B. I
  C. (not stated)
7 A. I
  B. R
  C. R
8 A. R
  B. I
  C. I
9 A. R
  B. I
  C. (All inchworms are geometrids, which means “earth measurer”, but they don’t actually measure anything.)
10 A. I
   B. I
   C. (not stated)
1 B
2 C
3 C
4 C
5 A
6 B
7 A
8 C (not B - We know almost 20 books were set in Alaska, but we don’t know where he wrote them.)
9 B
10 A
11 B
12 A
13 C
14 C
15 A
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DELTA p. 87-89 exercise 1.4.C - Take 12 minutes to answer the questions about the two passages. Then compare your answers with a partner and try to convince them your answer is correct.
1 B
2 A
3 C
4 A
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DELTA p. 88
5 C
6 A
7 D
8 B
9 D
10 C
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Listening Passage Types
- conversation
- lecture
- discussion
Listening Question Types
- purpose
- attitude
- detail
- main idea
- function
- inference
- prediction
- organization
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Inference and prediction questions are often grouped together (on the handout, they are together called “relationship” questions).
Handout (Longman) p. 168-169 - Listen to the conversation and answer the (prediction) question.
1 D
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For the practice exercises, take notes to get used to it, even if the passages are short enough that you don’t need them.
1 D
2 A
3 D
4 B
5 B
6 C (This is not a typical TOEFL question.)
7 C
8 D
9 A
p. 173-174 - Listen to the passage and answer the questions.
1 A
2 D
3 Blackbeard-18th, Wrights-20th, Roanoke-16th
4 Blackbeard-Ocracoke, Wrights-Kitty Hawk, colonists-Roanoke
5 B C E
6 B
7 C
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When you take notes on an academic passage (lecture or discussion, or sometimes the conversation), you should note (or at least remember) some things from the beginning and end, as well as the main points in the body of the passage.
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Listen to the next passage and take notes (even if you don’t normally take notes).
Leaf Arrangement = phyllotaxy
Compare your notes with your partner. Did you write down similar information? How are your notes organized?
What important information did the professor talk about before getting to specific types of leaf arrangement?
- random is rare
- arranged to get max sunlight and minimum interference from other leaves
Alternate: one leaf each node, most common
Opposite: two leaves at each node
Whorled: more than two leaves at each node, least common
After the specific types: assignment to visit the botannical garden and find three examples of each type of arrangement