2019-05-13 TOEFL: speaking, test

Greg Malivuk
[email protected]
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
---
Homework: If you want more feedback on yesterday’s writing than a score and a comment, send me a self-evaluation about what you did well, what you did badly, what you’ll try to improve for next time, and what you did better or worse than last time.
---
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-fascinating-history-of-cemeteries-keith-eggener
---
Speaking Section: third section, after the break, 6 tasks, 5.5 minutes of speaking time, 20 minutes total
1 independent, open-ended opinion - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
2 independent, choice question - 15/45
3 integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and student response - 30/60
4 integrated R/L/S, academic text and professor response - 30/60
5 integrated L/S, conversation about a problem and solutions - 20/60
6 integrated L/S, academic lecture - 20/60
---
p. 610-611 in your book and https://www.ets.org/s/toefl/pdf/toefl_speaking_rubrics.pdf describe speaking scores. The descriptions are different for independent and integrated tasks.
---
p. 495 - Record your responses to the speaking tasks in chapter 8 of your book.
Listen to a recording of each task. What was good about each one? What’s bad or missing?
What should you do to improve?
---
p. 601 and 602 have sample responses you can read.
---
BREAK
---
Reading Practice Test - Delta practice test 3 - page 500
Take 60 minutes to answer all the questions in this reading section.
Then submit your answers online.
---
Review questions everyone got wrong.
p. 501 3 - fact - A (The text describes metabolic problems with both too high and too low temperatures.)
p. 502 11 - fact - D (“promotes heat loss” = “increases heat loss”, which is the phrase used in paragraph 7; the other three options all increase heat production or decrease heat loss, which is the opposite)
p. 505 2 - vocabulary - A (norm = what’s normal)
p. 505 3 - vocabulary - B (It’s contrasted with the fact that Americans often identify Canadian English as British.)