2016-10-26 TOEFL: reference Qs, listening org.

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 24-25 on the handout - read the passage and answer the vocabulary and reference questions.
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With your partner, put the words in the spaces in the story. Each word must be used at least once (but a few words will be used more than once).
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Homework
1 A
2 C
3 B
4 A
5 B
6 D (“easily able to withstand external forces of nature” explains the meaning of “hardy”)
7 A
8 C
9 D
10 B
11 D
12 B
13 A
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https://www.wired.com/2016/10/inside-machine-will-turn-corpse-compost/
Read the article with your partner and, in your own words, say what each of the highlighted words or phrases means.
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BREAK
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bay = a large empty space
that timeline = the next four to six weeks
livestock = animals used in agriculture
carcass = dead body (of an animal)
just that = composting (carcasses or human bodies) in a vertical system
aerate = put air into something
loam = composted material, like soil
that = the fact that there’s no guarantee the soil comes exclusively from their loved one
that = a small clientele
local vernacular = local style and ideas about what it should look like
suffused = filled (softly)
that = the ability for people to customize their ritual / the fact that the facility’s ramp is supposed to be a blank canvas for a customized mourning ritual
frills = unnecessary complexities or “decoration”
embrace = accept
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Are there other words you couldn’t figure out from context?
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Tomorrow we will be in the computer lab for the first half of class, but come here to room 105 at 9.
You’ll do an integrated writing followed by an independent writing task.


Remember: writing is the last part of the test, right after speaking.
- Integrated Writing = 3 minutes to read a text, then listen to a lecture about the same topic, then see the text again and take 20 minutes to write about how the lecture relates to the text (it may illustrate points from the text or it may contradict them).
- Independent Writing = 30 minutes to respond to a short prompt (either agree/disagree with a statement, or choose between two positions described in the prompt)
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DELTA p. 252 - Listening organization questions
How is the (part of the) lecture organized? - It’s a description of a process.


p. 253 - How early in the lecture can you predict that it will be a description of a process?
- If you know what photosynthesis is, then the first sentence could be enough to tell you the organization.
- Definitely by the time you hear “take place in two stages”, you should expect that this will be a (chronological) description of a process.


At the top of p. 253 are some possible types of organization.
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p. 254 exercise 2.6.A - Listen and take notes, then answer the questions about each listening.
1 C (life insurance, health insurance, property-liability insurance)
	(Knowing how a lecture is organized is also important for taking useful notes.)