2017-11-29 TOEFL: listening detail

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-complicated-history-of-surfing-scott-laderman
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Homework: finish the handout (Cambridge exercise R23)
Check your homework as a group before I give you the answers. Why are the wrong answers wrong?
1 B D F
2 B C F
3 A C D
4 C E F
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DELTA p. 157-160 exercise 1.8.B - Take 10 minutes to skim the texts and answer the questions. Then check with your partner and identify why the other answers are wrong.
1 D - paraphrase
2 A - fact
3 C - vocab (More often “insoluble” means something can’t dissolve in a liquid.)
4 B C E - summary (A is a minor detail, D and F aren’t stated in the passage)
5 B - purpose
6 C - vocab
7 A - paraphrase
8 A C F - summary (B and E are minor details, and D is not mentioned, though it would also be a minor detail if it were included)
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Listening Question Types
- detail
- main idea
- inference
- attitude
- purpose
- organization
- function
- prediction
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Detail questions are similar to reading fact questions. You need to remember or write in your notes specific details from the conversation or lecture.
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Cambridge p. 275 exercise L13 (on the board) - Listen to the statements and choose the correct restatement of the same information.
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BREAK
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1 B
2 A
3 B
4 B
5 A
6 B
7 B
8 A
Often the correct answer to a detail question is a restatement of information from the listening, and you need to be able to recognize accurate restatements of information.
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DELTA p. 206 exercise 2.2.A - Listen to parts of conversations and answer the questions.
1 A
2 B
3 C
4 D
5 B
6 B
7 D
8 B
9 A
10 B
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Handout (Longman) p. 133 - Listen and take notes. Then answer the questions.
1 C
2 B
3 D
4 A D
5 B
6 B C
Do the same for the other passages. (Don’t look at the questions until the conversation or lecture is complete.)
7 C
8 C
9 B
10 A C
11 B D
12 D
13 C
14 A C
15 B C
16 B
17 B D
18 A
19 B
20 B D
21 A B
22 D
23 C
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p. 137-138 - Listen and take notes, then answer the questions.
1 B
2 D
3 C
4 A - There’s a binary start that’s part of the Big Dipper, but not the other way around.
5 A D
6 B
7 C D
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DELTA p. 212-213 - Listen and take notes. Then answer the questions.
1 B
2 B
3 D
4 C
5 C
6 B
7 A
8 B D
9 D
10 C
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Tomorrow: Speaking
- third section, after the 10-minute break that follows listening
- six speaking tasks, 20 minutes total, 5m30s speaking time
1 independent, open-ended
2 independent, choice
3 integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation
4 integrated R/L/S, academic text and lecture
5 integrated L/S, conversation about a problem and solutions
6 integrated L/S, academic lecture
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Homework: DELTA p. 207-209 exercises 2.2.B-D