2017-11-15 TOEFL: reading purpose, listening function

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: Finish the handout (88-91 and 97-101)
Check your answers with your classmates. (Or do the homework if you didn’t at home.)
exercise 4.1
16 F
17 F
18 F
19 T
20 T
21 T
22 F
23 T
24 T (“management mode” is a failure of leadership, because no one is being a leader)
25 F
26 T
27 T
28 T
29 F
30 F
31 T
exercise 4.2
14 B
15 C
16 A
17 D
18 A
19 C
20 C
21 B
22 A
23 A
24 B
25 A
26 D
27 D
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Listening Question Types
- detail
- purpose
- function
- inference
- attitude
- main idea / gist (content or purpose)
- organization (questions about how a lecture is organized)
- prediction
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Listen to part of a conversation and answer the question.
- She wants to end the conversation.
DELTA p. 247 - With your partner, think of ways a person could perform each of these functions indirectly.
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BREAK
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Cengage p. 321 exercise 12.1 - Decide if each statement is true or false.
1 T (They’re being sarcastic when they say “loads of fun”.)
2 F
3 T
4 T
5 F (“spic and span” means very clean)
6 T
7 T
8 F
9 T
10 F
11 T
12 F (Some of them were much too long.)
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exercise 12.2 - Listen again to parts of conversations and answer the questions.
1 A
2 A
3 B
4 B - “I think the way her students paint has sort of rubbed off on her.” - It has affected the way she paints.
5 D - “Wow, that’s right up my alley.”
6 A
7 D
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Thursday November 23 - Thanksgiving (NO SCHOOL November 23 or 24)
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Wednesday November 22 - Thanksgiving food party. (At 12:00, no modules.)
TOEFL class bring dessert.
Label your food as “vegetarian” (no part of a dead animal) or “vegan” (vegetarian PLUS no eggs or milk or honey)
Label if your food has nuts, pork, or dairy (anything from animal milk).
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8 C - “Oh, don’t even get me started.”
9 A - “Okay, okay, you’ve sold me.”
10 C - “How on earth do you do that? I mean, a rock’s a rock, isn’t it?
11 D
12 C
13 B
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exercise 12.3 - Do the same with lectures.
1 D
2 B - “The dancers looked like stick figures in a child’s drawing.”
3 D - “Rhine’s results were, I guess the kindest word I could use is ‘questionable’.”
4 A - “To put it in a nutshell”
5 C
6 B
7 D (CD track at 5m30s)
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Homework: Oxford handout (audio is at the link I will email to you)