2018-08-08 TOEFL: reading inf, listening signals

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: handout (Cengage) exercise 3.2 (all 42 questions)
Compare your answers with your partner. Try to convince them if you disagree.
1 D (not B - The last sentence makes it clear that pigeons probably don’t understand the expressions.)
2 A
3 D
4 B
5 C
6 B
7 C
8 A
9 A
10 B
11 B
12 A (year + 2-letter names are temporary, order + Name names are permanent)
13 D
14 A
15 C
16 B
17 A
18 A
19 D
20 C
21 B
22 A
23 D
24 A
25 C
26 C
27 A
28 B
29 C
30 A
31 D
32 B
33 C
34 D
35 C
36 D
37 B
38 B
39 A
40 C
41 D
42 C
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BREAK
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Listening Section: 60-90 minutes, 2 or 3 sets of 3 listenings (6 or 9 listening passages), each set has about 17 questions, which you have 10 minutes to answer
Listening Question Types:
- main idea (purpose or content)
- detail
- attitude
- inference
- purpose
- prediction
- function
- organization (most often for lectures)
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Handout (Oxford) p. 25 - What are signal words? (What do they do?)
1L1- Underline the signal phrases in each statement.
Then place them in the correct part of a lecture.
1 e - “our next topic”
2 g - “we’re going to be looking at”
3 b - “today” “four major types”
4 a - “Why? Number one…”
5 d - “ let’s move on” “What happens then?”
6 f - “The major difference between”
7 c - “For instance”
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p. 26 1L2 - What content do you expect after each signal word?
b) description of the process of how pheromones work
c) examples of messages (that pheromones can send)
d) research and evidence about pheromones in humans
On another piece of paper, take notes about the lecture.
Then compare your notes with your partner.
- Did you organize them similarly?
- Did you catch the same information?
- Can you answer the questions asked by the signal words in the table?
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p. 27 - Answer these questions.
1 d - main idea
2 d - purpose/function
3 b - purpose
4 a d - detail
5 d - detail
6 d - inference
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Do conversations have signal words?
- Yes, but they’re less structured than in a lecture. (In addition, speakers often don’t know what they’ll talk about next, so they can’t signal the same way you can with a lecture.)
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p. 28 1L5 - What do you think the professor and student will discuss? What are some words you’ll hear?
Listen and take notes.
p. 29 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. 30 - Predict the content (and perhaps some words) after each signal statement.
Listen and take notes.
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Homework: answer the Test Questions sections on p. 31, 33, 35-36, 37, 39-40
	1L8, 1L10, 1L13, 1L14, 1L15
	(I've emailed a link to the audio files to you.)