2018-09-06 TOEFL: reading vocab, listening function

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/the-surprising-link-between-stress-and-memory-elizabeth-cox/
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Homework: complete exercise 2.2 on the handout
Check your answers with your partners. Convince them you’re right if you disagree.
1 B
2 C
3 C
4 D
5 A
6 D (“nothing if not accommodating” means it was definitely accommodating.)
7 B
8 B
9 A
10 A
11 A
12 D
13 C
14 A
15 B
16 D
17 B
18 A
19 C
20 B
21 C
22 A
23 B
24 D
25 D
26 B
27 A
28 A
29 D
30 C
31 A
32 D
33 B
34 A
35 C (Information is the only thing in the answer choices that science might use to delay aging. Also, the metaphor of light=truth/understanding is very common in English.)
36 C
37 C
38 A
39 D
40 B
41 C
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Basic context clues often only help you eliminate one or maybe two answers. You also need to have a pretty good vocabulary in general to get these questions correct (and to understand the words in the context and the other answer choices).
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Listening Question Types:
- purpose
- inference
- details/facts
- attitude
- function
- prediction
- organization
- main idea
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DELTA p. 247 - Some examples of function questions and some common functions (which might be answer choices to the question).
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BREAK
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DELTA p. 249 - Listen to parts of conversations. Then answer the questions.
1 D
2 A
3 B
4 C
5 A
6 B
p. 250 - Do the same for discussions.
1 B
2 D
3 D
4 A
5 C
6 B
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Cengage exercise 12.1 - Listen and decide if the statements are true or false.
1 T
2 F
3 T
4 T
5 F
6 T
7 T
8 F
9 T
10 F
11 T
12 F (“I know I didn’t set a maximum, I just said at least 10 pages, but some of these were ridiculous.”)
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Handout (Oxford) p. 370 - Listen and take notes. Then answer the function (and attitude) questions.
1 d
2 d
3 a
p. 371
1 c
2 b
3 b
4 c
5 b
p. 372-373
1 d
2 c
3 b
4 b
5 d
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Tomorrow: Speaking Task 6