2017-04-06 TOEFL: listening organization, int writing

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-the-food-you-eat-affects-your-gut-shilpa-ravella
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Listening Section: second section, after reading and before the 10-minute break
- 60-90 minutes to answer questions about 6 or 9 passage (arranged in 2 or 3 sets of 3 listenings)
- After you answer a listening question and click “next”, you cannot return to that question.
Question types:
- purpose
- main idea
- function
- inference
- detail
- attitude
- prediction
- organization
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Listening: Organization Questions
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DELTA p. 252 - Listen to part of a lecture and take notes. Then answer the question.
- D - description of a process
Organization questions ask you to think about how the information is arranged in a lecture or discussion.
p. 254 exercise 2.6.A - Listen to the exerpts and answer the questions.
1 C
2 C
3 D
4 B
5 D
6 B
7 A
8 A C
p. 255 exercise 2.6.B - Same
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BREAK
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1 C
2 D
3 A
4 C
5 D
6 opposite basal alternate opposite
7 B
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Integrated Writing: first writing task, after you finish speaking
- 3 minutes to read a text, time to listen to a lecture, 20 minutes to write about how the points from the lecture relate to the points from the text
Read and listen again to the franchise topic from last week’s writing. (ETS past test 4)
Then look at the three essays with your partner. What’s good about each one? What could be improved?
According to the descriptions on p. 386, what score would you give each one?
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Restate/paraphrase/summarize points from the reading, don’t simply copy them word-for-word.