2018-04-25 TOEFL: listening detail

Greg Malivuk
greg.malivuk@gmail.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: finish DELTA 1.8.A and do 1.8.B (p. 155-160)
Finish this now if you didn’t at home. Then check your answers with your partners and tell them why their answers are wrong if you disagree.
1.8.A
4 A B E (D and F are details)
5 A C E
1.8.B
1 (paraphrase) D
2 (fact) A
3 (vocabulary) C
4 (summary) B C E
5 (purpose) B
6 (vocabulary) C
7 (paraphrase) A
8 (summary) A C F
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Listening Question Types:
- organization (How is the lecture organized?)
- detail (For listening, this includes negative fact and complete-a-table questions)
- main idea
- attitude
- inference
- purpose
- prediction
- function
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Handout (Cambridge) p. 275 - Read the answer choices and identify the main difference between them. Then listen to the sentences and choose the option that correctly restates that information.
1 B
2 A
3 B (the Aztec word for “blah blah blah” = the word that can be translated as “blah blah blah”)
4 B
5 A
6 B
7 B (The log was from 1783, the explorers were recent.)
8 A (Authorities reported it, but we don’t know who spotted them.)
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In most detail (and other types of) questions, there is only one correct answer, but sometimes you have to choose two or more.
p. 276 exercise L14 - Listen to the passages and take notes. Then read each question and choose two correct answers.
1 A C
2 B D
3 A B
4 B C
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p. 277 exercise L15 - Note that there are not actually questions like this on the TOEFL, but the same kind of information is often asked in questions like L16.
1 A B D
2 A B
3 A D
4 B C
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p. 279 exercise L16 - This kind of question is common on the TOEFL.
1 Y Y N Y N (C and E are for racing, not training)
2 N Y Y Y N
3 N N Y Y Y (A and B are things the aphids do)
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p. 280-281 exercise L17 - Some listening detail questions are similar to organize/categorize questions on the reading section.
1 Prisms Plates Stars
2 Antiviral Antibacterial Antibacterial
3 Refrigerator Icehouse Icebox
4 Drops Drops Drops Flow Flow
	(Did you write the word “speleothems” in your notes?)
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Listening Mini-Test (starting p. 280) - Listen and take notes, then answer the detail questions about each conversation or lecture.
1 Yes No Yes Yes No
2 A
3 D
4 A B
5 Brainwashing Subception Hypnosis
6 B
7 B
8 A