2016-09-21 TOEFL: psych practice, block format

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-like-to-scare-ourselves-margee-kerr
How many reasons were given for why we like to do scary things?
- energized, emotionally heightened feeling, similar to feelings during excitement and sex
- sense of accomplishment after successfully doing something scary
- social activity, brings people together
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Psychology handout p. 265 - Listen and take notes about the lecture. Then answer the questions. (Test 6 listening 3)
12 A, C (main idea)
13 D (detail)
14 B (organization)
15 B (detail)
16 D (inference)
17 no, yes, yes, no, yes
approximately

p. 183 - Listen and take notes. Then answer the questions. (Test 4 listening 5)
23 B
24 D
25 A
26 B
27 early, middle, early, late
28 B
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This week we will still talk about block-format integrated writing and about speaking question 3 (announcement + conversation). Are there any other specific parts of the TOEFL or question types you want to get to this week?
- speaking question 4 (text + lecture integrated)
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Speaking questions:
1 - Usually opinion (sometimes choice)
2 - Usually choice (sometimes opinion)
	1&2 - 15s preparation, 45s to speak
3 - announcement and conversation
4 - textbook and lecture/discussion
	3&4 - 30s preparation, 60s to speak
5 - conversation about a problem and solutions
6 - academic listening
	5&6 - 20s preparation, 60s to speak
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BREAK
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Handout p. 216 (Test 5 reading 4) - Take 20 minutes to answer the questions about the passage
Check your answers in pairs.
39 B (negative fact)
40 D (inference)
41 B (purpose)
42 C (vocabulary)
43 D (fact)
44 A (According to the reading, the most widely known hallmark is: “an understanding of conservation, thee idea that some properties stay the same despite changes in appearance” [appositive / punctuation])
45 D (reference)
46 A (paraphrase)
47 C “in a similar experiment” = it’s a variation on Piaget’s experiment with coins
48 A (inference)
49 A (sentence insertion) “for instance” tells us this is an example of something (in this case it’s an example of conservation)
50 before: C, G
   after: A, D, F
Piaget discovered the most widely known hallmark of the five-seven shift,
	hallmark = an understanding of conservation,
	conservation = the idea that some properties stay the same despite changes in appearance.
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Integrated Writing - Block Format
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- 3 minutes to read a passage, then listen to a speaker talking about the same topic, then 20 minutes to write about how the lecture is related to the reading. (Usually it contradicts, but sometimes supports).

Remember: point-by-point
	- Introduction
	- First point (reading and listening and how they relate)
	- Second point (same thing)
	- Third point (same thing)

Block format:
- Introduction (same as point-by-point, maybe just two sentences)
- Summarize the points made in the reading (topic sentence and one sentence for each point)
- Summarize the points made in the listening *and* explain how they contradict the points from the reading. (Topic sentence and two sentences for each point)
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Handout (test 5) - Read the passage and identify the main points it makes about intelligence testing
Listen to the lecture and take notes
Sample outline of a response:
Introduction: The reading and lecture are both about IQ tests. The reading says the IQ test is important and useful for measuring children’s potential in school and later life. In contrast, the lecture says IQ can’t predict success in life.
Reading:
	- IQ tests can predict success in school and later life
	- IQ tests can be used to evaluate people for different fields, such as military service.
Listening:
	- Creativity and motivation are more important to success than IQ (for example, someone with a high IQ but low motivation won’t be successful) - This contradicts the claim in the reading that IQ tests alone can measure potential for success in school.
	- IQ tests might correspond to academic performance, but they only measure “schoolhouse intelligence” - This contradicts the idea in the reading that IQ is useful for different fields
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Because success in school and in later life are addressed separately in the listening, it might be good to treat them as separate points.