2016-07-27 Pre TOEFL: sample ind. writing (1)

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all my classes
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Homework: write an outline for prompt 156
In pairs: look at your partner’s outline. What is their answer to the question? What are the supporting ideas? Do they really support the answer, or is the connection unclear? Are they in an appropriate order?
(If you didn’t do it, write a short outline now.)
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When you have a choice question like this, your reasons should help explain both why you chose this option and why you didn’t choose other options. (Topics 86, 87, and 89 are also choice questions.) In other words, at least some of your reasons must be specific.

For the TOEFL, make sure you answer exactly the question you are asked. (If you are asked to choose one country, don’t choose two, don’t choose a city, and don’t choose a continent.)
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Read the independent question from https://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/TOEFL/pdf/ibt_writing_sample_responses.pdf
Which answer (agree or disagree) do you think is easier to support?
(ETS is the organization that makes the TOEFL test, so their information is the most reliable.)

If you agree: you can write about the benefits if you always tell the truth and the negative effects if you don’t tell the truth. You also need to support why it’s the most important consideration.

If you disagree: you can write about times when lying is better (question “always”), relationships that don’t require as much truthfulness (question “any”), or more important considerations than telling the truth (question “most”)
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What are the problems with the level 1 response?
- It’s much too short.
- The grammar makes it very difficult to understand.

“The truth for bad or hard is better that thousand of lied that i feel better.”
-> “A sad or difficult truth is better than a thousand lies that make me feel better.”
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Homework: “translate” the level 1 response into a paragraph with correct grammar and better connections between the ideas

yes, the truth is the most important in a relationship because each person hope that the people that love talk with the true. The sentimental relationship need building on truth yet that withou this dead. The truth for bad or hard is better that thousand of lied that i feel better.