2018-06-06 TOEFL: listening function

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: handout (Longman) - answer all of the questions
Check your answers with your partners. Try to answer at least some of them if you didn’t do your homework.
(In the future, any time more than half the students don’t do the homework we check in class, we’ll do a speaking test.)
Passage 1: (2) (6), (4), (1) (7)
Passage 2: (3) (5), (4) (7), (1)
Passage 3: (1) (7), (2) (3) (4)
Passage 4: (3) (4) (6), (1) (7)
Species exercise:
1 (1) (3) (6)
2 (2) (5), (1) (4) (7)
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Speaking Section - ETS 1 test 1 - Alternate with your partner to give responses to all 6 tasks.
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Listening Section: 2 or 3 sets; each set has 3 listenings, 17 questions, and takes about 30 minutes total
- Each set has one conversation, one lecture, and one classroom discussion
Listening Question Types:
- main idea
- inference
- purpose
- detail/fact
- function
- attitude
- prediction
- organization
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Function Questions
DELTA p. 247 - With your partner, think of one or two expressions people use to indirectly or politely perform these functions in conversations and lectures.
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BREAK
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Handout (Cengage) p. 321 - Listen to parts of conversations and lectures and decide if each statement is true or false.
1 T
2 F
3 T
4 T
5 F “spic and span”
6 T
7 T
8 F
9 T
10 F
11 T
12 F
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exercise 12.2 - Listen again to parts of conversations. Then answer the questions.
1 A
2 A
3 B
4 B “rubbed off on her”
5 D “right up my alley”
6 A
7 D
8 C “don’t even get me started”
9 A
10 C
11 D
12 C
13 B
exercise 12.3 - Do the same for lectures and discussions.
1 D
2 B
3 D
4 A “to put it in a nutshell”
5 C
6 B
7 D
8 C
9 A
10 B
11 A “I don’t have a clue”
12 D “It’s an uphill struggle”
13 B
14 B
15 C
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Writing Section: two tasks, integrated and independent; 20+30 minutes writing, 1 hour total
1 integrated: read a passage, listen to a lecture about the same topic, 20 minutes to write about the points from the lecture and how they relate to the points from the reading passage
2 independent: read a choice question prompt, 30 minutes to explain and support your opinion
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Homework: DELTA p. 249-250 exercises 2.5.A and 2.5.B
	Audio will be at http://bit.do/gmalivuktoeflhw