2017-05-24 TOEFL: listening gist, reading paraphrase

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: DELTA p. 199 and 200 - Exercises 2.1.A and 2.1.B
2.1.A
1 C
2 C
3 B
4 A
5 D
2.1.B
1 B
2 A
3 C
4 D
5 A
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Yesterday’s handout (Cengage) p. 272-724 - Answer the main idea questions for the rest of the listenings.
7 C
8 B
9 D
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Reading Question Types
- fact
- negative fact
- vocabulary
- inference
- purpose
- reference
- paraphrase
- sentence insertion
- summarize
- organize
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Paraphrase questions: which sentence best expresses the essnetial information in the highlighted sentence?
DELTA p. 110 - Read the paragraph and choose the correct paraphrase. - D
In this case, the other options are all inaccurate.
p. 111-112 - Strategies for answering these questions.
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p. 114-115 - Read the first four passages and answer the paraphrase questions.
1 D
2 A
3 C
4 B
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BREAK
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Handout (Cengage) p. 103-105 - Decide whether each restatement is a Correct paraphrase, an Incomplete restatement, or incorrect (X).
1 incomplete (It leaves out the fact that there are no flying reptiles today.)
2 correct
3 incorrect
4 incorrect
5 correct
6 incorrect
7 correct
8 incomplete
9 incorrect (You should be able to infer that Handel wrote clarinet music before the mid-19th century.)
10 correct
11 correct
12 incorrect
13 incorrect
14 incorrect
15 incomplete
16 incorrect
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Handout (Oxford) p. 137 - Take 5 minutes to read about Any Goldsworthy’s art.
p. 140 - Answer the paraphrase questions about the passage. Why are the other answers incorrect?
1 c (all the others are incorrect)
2 a (b and c are incorrect, d is incomplete)
3 c (a and b are incorrect, d is incomplete)
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“kind” has a long ‘i’ pronunciation, but “kin” and “kinship”, and “kindred” have the short ‘i’
Ancestors and descendants are only in your direct line. They don’t include other relatives like cousins, aunts and uncles, or nieces and nephews.
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Homework: handout p. 142-145 - Read the passage about Ben & Jerry’s, do 3R8 and 3R9 about vocabulary, and answer the questions on 144-145.