2018-07-11 TOEFL: listening main idea

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the-coldest-thing-in-the-world-lina-marieth-hoyos
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Homework: finish exercise 1.8.C in your book (p. 162 and 163) and complete the handout (Cambridge), p. 218-222 exercise R23
Check your answers with your partner. Why do you think the other answers are wrong, if you disagree?
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DELTA p. 162-3 exercise 1.8.C
5 A - inference
6 B - vocabulary
	Phosphorus has no bearing on coffee in the final cup.
7 D - paraphrase
8 A D F
Cambridge R23
1 B D F
2 B C F
3 A C D
4 C E F - These are the “various ways” the empire dealt with their expenses.
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Listening Question Types:
- main idea / gist
- purpose
- attitude
- prediction
- detail
- organization (How is the lecture organized?)
- inference
- function
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Main Idea (Gist) Questions
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DELTA p. 197 - Listen to part of a conversation and answer the question.
- B
Notice that all of the wrong answers sound like things that were talked about.
Other wrong answers might be too general or too specific.
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p. 199 - Listen to the conversations and answer the questions.
1 C
2 C
3 B
4 A
5 D
	xylem and phloem
	“Phloem flows (down).”
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p. 200 - Now do the same thing with lectures.
1 B
2 A
3 C
4 D
5 A
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p. 201 exercise 2.1.C
1 A
2 D
3 B
4 C
5 A
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BREAK
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Handout (Oxford) - Look at the outline for gist questions on p. 166-7.
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p. 167 - Answer the pre-listening questions.
Then listen to the talk and take notes.
exercise 3L5 - Compare your notes with your partner and see if you have this information.
1 1 degree F
2 11 of the hottest years on record have occurred within the last 13 years
3 greenhouse gas emissions (since the Industrial Revolution)
4 CO2, methane, ozone
5 the planet gets warmer
6 CO2 is formed by burning fossil fuels
7 now 130 times more than at the beginning of the 19th century
8 10 degrees F more
9 severe heat waves, melting ice, stronger storms (e.g. hurricanes) with more flooding
10 heat waves kill, lack of water, flooding in coastal areas, hurricanes destroy lives and livelihoods
11 [this is baseically the same as the 3L6 test question]
3L6 - b
(Not c because “implications” are only the effects, not the causes.)
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e.g. = exempli gratia = “for example”
i.e. = id est = “in other words”
etc. = et cetera = “and so on”
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p. 168 listening practice 2 - Listen and take notes, and then compare your notes with your partner.
3L7 - Answer these questions
Household waste - reduce 275 billion pounds of CO2
	(The US produces 12,000 billion pounds of CO2, so this would be a 2.3% reduction.)
http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/emis/tre_coun.html
3L8 - d
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p. 169 - Listen and take notes, then compare your notes.
3L10 - b
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p. 170-171 - Listen and take notes about culture shock. Then answer the questions.
1 b
2 a b e
3 b - “You can say that again!” expresses agreement
4 b
5  - 3 2 1 4
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Tomorrow: writing practice