2017-08-10 TOEFL: speaking 4, (business vocab)

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/when-is-water-safe-to-drink-mia-nacamulli
turbidity
ionization
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Speaking Section: third section, after the break
- about 20 minutes total
- six tasks, 5.5 minutes of total speaking time
1 independent, open-ended - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
2 independent, choice - 15/45
3 integrated, reading/listening/speaking, conversation about a campus announcement - 30/60
4 integrated, R/L/S, academic text and lecture - 30/60
5 integrated, L/S, conversation about a problem and solutions - 20/60
6 integrated, L/S, academic lecture - 20/60
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DELTA p. 292 - take 45 seconds to read the passage
Careful, “psychological” and “physiological” are different.
Then listen to the lecture and take notes.
Notice that the prompt asks you to explain the effects of color. You don’t need to spend time on the ideas associated with each color or on the related interior design considerations.
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Your response should have these parts:
1 Introduction: briefly summarize the text (explain what topic it’s about)
2 Lead-in/Thesis statement: “The professor gives two examples/reasons/situations/etc. of …”
3 First point
4 Detail/example
5 Second point
6 Detail/example
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Take 5 minutes to prepare a ‘perfect’ response to ETS past test 2 (which some of you also did last Friday).
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Tell your partner your response to tests 1 and 3.
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BREAK
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Record your responses to ETS Guide practice tests 1-3.
Listen to your recordings and choose which one we can hear as a class.
Listen to your classmates’ responses. Did they include all the important parts? Were they easy to understand?
You can look at DELTA p. 331 to see descriptions of the integrated speaking score levels.
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Listen to the ETS sample responses for test 1. What is good about each? What problems are there?
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Business and Economics vocabulary - Read the sentences, then match the words with their definitions below.
(We will check this tomorrow.)