2018-06-13 TOEFL: listening signal words

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: handout with passage 6
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Check your answers to the Gandhi passage and the homework with your partner. If you disagree, convince your partner that your answer is correct and theirs is wrong.
1 c
2 b
3 c
4 c
5 c (people can suffer, not positions or strikes)
6 c
7 b (“former” in this context means the first of two things already mentioned)
8 d (“latter” means the last of two things already mentioned)
9 b (A breaks the reference of “These” in the next sentence, C and D are too late, since the new sentence is still about the 1932 protest regarding caste and electorates.)
10 b (or d, which referred to the same person)
11 d
12 b
13 c
14 c
15 b ( “Neither side” must come after something about two sides, so only B works.)
30 B
31 A
32 D
33 C
34 D
35 B
36 B
37 C (The Parthians were their enemies.)
38 A
39 C (“The Silk Road had effects on history, not just on that of Rome, but on that of all the lands...”)
40 A
41 A
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Listening Section: 2 or 3 sets of 3 listenings each (6 or 9 total), each set has 17 questions, and you’ll have 10 minutes to answer the questions in each set; the total time for one set is about 30 minutes
Listening Question Types:
- purpose
- detail
- main idea
- attitude
- function
- organization
- inference
- prediction
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Listen to the conversation and answer the questions in your own words.
DELTA p. 230-233 explains inference and prediction questions
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DELTA p. 234 - Listen to parts of converstaions and answer the questions.
1 D
2 C
3 B
4 C
5 B
6 A
7 A
8 B
9 C
10 D
p. 235 - Do the same for lectures.
1 A
2 C
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BREAK
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Signal Words and Note Taking
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Handout (Oxford) p. 25 - What are signal words?
1L1 - Decide what part of a lecture each sentence would be in, and underline the signal words in each sentence.
1 e - “our next topic”
2 g - “we’re going to be looking at”
3 b - “we’ll be examining the four major types”
4 a - “Why? Number one”
5 d - “So let’s move on to”
6 f - “The major difference between”
7 c - “for instance”
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Listen about pheromones and take notes on another piece of paper. Pay close attention to signal words.
Compare your notes with your partner. Did you catch the same information? Are your notes organized similarly?
handout p. 27 - answer the questions about the lecture
1 d - main idea
2 d - function/purpose
3 b - purpose
4 a d - detail
5 d - detail
6 d (The lecture doesn’t mention male mate choice.) - inference
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Listen and take notes about a conversation. Then compare your notes with your partner.
p. 29 exercise 1L6 - Answer the questions.
1 c
2 c
3 n n y n y y
4 b
5 a b d
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p. 31 - Listen and take notes, then answer the questions.
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Homework: Finish the “Test Questions” sections on the handout
		p. 33 1L10, p. 35-36 1L12, p. 37 1L14, p. 39-40 1L15
		You can find the audio at http://bit.do/gmalivuktoeflhw