2018-05-25 TOEFL: speaking 6

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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NO CLASS MONDAY MAY 28
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-dust-made-of-michael-marder
dermato = skin
phago = eat
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Speaking Section: 3rd section, after the 10-minute break, 5.5 minutes of speaking, 20 minutes total
1 independent, open-ended - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
2 independent, choice question - 15/45
3 integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation - 30/60
4 integrated R/L/S, academic text and lecture - 30/60
5 integrated L/S, conversation about a problem and solutions - 20/60
6 integrated L/S, academic lecture - 20/60
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Speaking Task 6
DELTA practice test 5 - Listen and take notes on the lecture.
Your response can be organized like this:
1 Introduction: State the topic (“The lecture is about the trend in the ealy 20th century…”)
2 Lead-in: State what points the professor makes (“The professor describes three changes in homes…”)
3 First point
4 Detail/example
5 Second point
6 Detail/example
7 Third point
8 Detail/example
	(Usually there are only two main points, but in this example there were three.)
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Take 5 minutes to prepare a “perfect” response to ETS 2 test 1 (about the passion plant and potato plant)
(You don’t need to write everything you’ll say, but make an outline of the points you’ll make.)
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BREAK
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Record your responses to ETS 2 tests 2-4.
Listen to your recordings and decide which one we can hear as a class.
Listen to your classmates’ recordings. What was good and bad about each one?
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Homework (optional): If you want more feedback on yesterday’s writing than a score and one or two sentences, email me this weekend with a self-evaluation. What did you do well? What do you need to work on for your next writing? What did you do better or worse than your last writing?