2017-01-31 TOEFL: word roots, listening function

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Word Roots list 2 - With your partners, try to think of one or two words to explain the meaning of each word root
cert = sure
chrom = color
chron = time
circum = around
claim = shout (the ‘i’ is dropped before another syllable)
clar = clear
cline = lean
co/col/com/con/cor = with/together
	co - before vowels and in newly created words: cooperate, copilot, coworker
	col - before ‘l’: collaborate, colleague
	com - before ‘m’, ‘p’, and ‘b’: communicate, company, compatriot, combination
	cor - before ‘r’: corroborate, correlation
	con - before other consonants: connect, convention, contemporary, concatenate, conference
cogni = know
contra = against
corp = body
cred = believe
crypto = hidden/secret
de = down/away
dem = people
di = two
dict = say/speak
domin = master
don = give
duct = lead
dyna = power
dys = bad
https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6145691/dyslexia-zoomedout.gif - example of what dyslexia might look like
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TOEFL test format:
1 reading - 60-80 minutes, 3-4 passages, 14-15 questions each (multiple choice)
2 listening - 60-90 minutes, 2-3 sets of 3 passages, about 17 questions for each set (multiple choice)
3 speaking - 20 minutes, 6 questions, 5.5 minutes of total speaking time
4 writing - 60 minutes, integrated (reading/listening/20m to write) and independent (30m to write)
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Listening question types
- detail (most common question type)
- purpose (why does the person use this example? why is the conversation happening?)
- inference
- prediction
- main idea / gist
- function (what does the person mean when they say this?)
- attitude
- organization
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DELTA p. 246 - function questions - Listen to the conversation and take notes. Why does the woman say what she says?
p. 247 - For each function in the secont box, think of one or two words/expressions people can use to perform each function. (Especially think of ways someone might do so politely or indirectly. There won’t be a function question asking about, “I’m out of time and I need to leave now,” but there might be one about, “Is that all? I have a meeting in five minutes.”)
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BREAK
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Handout (Cengage) p. 321 - Listen to the excerpts and decide if each statement is true or false.
1 T
2 F
3 T
4 T
5 F
6 T
7 T
8 F
9 T
10 F
11 T
12 F
p. 322 - Listen to parts of the conversations and answer the questions.
1 A
2 A
3 B
4 B
5 D - “right up my alley” means it’s exactly what I want
6 A
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Handout (Oxford) p. 370 - Listen to the lecture about emotional displays, and take notes.
1 d (questions about certainty are a type of attitude question)
2 d
3 a
p. 371 - Listen and take notes. Then compare your notes with a partner.
Answer the questions.
1 c
2 b
3 b
4 c
5 b
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What do you know about Egyptian mummies and mummification?
p. 372 - Listen and take notes. Then compare your notes with a partner.
Answer the questions.
1 d
2 c
3 b (It was a rhetorical question--he wasn’t requesting an answer.)
4 b
5 d
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Homework: DELTA p. 249-250 - You can use your CD or go to this site for the audio
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzQTAtJHmfaIczBwMms5a3BqcUk