2017-12-06 TOEFL: reading organize, listening gist

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework (to start in class): finish the handout (5 and 6 from Cambridge and passages 1-5)
Compare your answers and identify where in the text they come from if you disagree.
5 found to exist: D E H
  perhaps don’t exist: A B F I
6 first four: A D G I
  final: C F H
(Cengage)
1 homology: C D F
  analogy: A E
2 european: D E F H
  asian: B C I
3 burbank: A B E G
  carver: C F H
4 radiation: C E
  advection: B D F
5 primary: B E H
  secondary: C G
  tertiary: A F
(The next word in this sequence is “quaternary”, which is a fairly common word in geology. The next words are not common, but they are “quinary”, “senary”, “septenary”, “octonary”.)
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Passage 3 Paragraph 6 is about misconceptions about the two men.
“It is widely believed that Carver invented peanut butter,” without other context, would normally imply that it is probably true. However, the next sentence clearly states that “peanut butter is not one of them [the things Carver developed]”.
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Word parts that refer to number:
1 - uni, mono, prim
2 - duo, di, bi
3 - tri, ter
4 - qua(d/t), tetra
5 - quint, penta
6 - se(x), hex
7 - sept, hept
8 - oct
9 - nov, non
10 - dec, dek
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Listening Section: 60-90 minutes total, divided into 2 or 3 sets of three listenings each
- Each set has a conversation and two classroom listenings (lecture or discussion)
- There are usually about 17 questions per set (5, 6, 6)
- The set will take about 30 minutes total, including 10 minutes of time to choose answers.
- You should take notes while you listen. You will not be able to listen again, and you can’t return to earlier questions after you have answered them.
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BREAK
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Listening Question Types (all multiple choice)
- main idea (content or purpose)
- detail
- attitude (how does the speaker feel about something?)
- purpose (why does the speaker mention something?)
- function (what does the speaker mean when he/she says this? why does he/she say this?)
- organization (how is the lecture organized?)
- inference
- prediction (inferences about the future)
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Main Idea (sometimes called “gist”) Questions
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Handout (Cengage) p. 261-265 exercise 9.1 - Listen to the conversations and take notes. Then answer the main idea questions.
1 C
2 B
3 C
4 A
5 A
exercise 9.2 - Now listen to discussions and lectures and answer the questions.
1 D (B and C were both discussed, but neither is the main point of the lecture)
2 B
3 A
4 D (Is sales tax direct or indirect?)
5 C (The other options are mentioned or referred to, but they aren’t the main topic.)
8 B
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Homework: DELTA p. 199-201 - Listen to the audio excerpts and answer the main idea questions.