2019-01-09 TOEFL: listening inference

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: finish the handout (1-11 about Mesa Verde and 19-26 about Dorothea Dix)
Compare your answers with your partner. If you disagree, convince them your answer is correct.
Passage 1

1 B
2 A
3 C (it means “Ancient Ones” in Navajo, but “no one knows what the Anasazi actually called themselves”)
4 B (or C, if the sentence at the end of the 4th paragraph also refers to paragraph 3 - “Early Pueblo Period” is not one of the names historians use today for this time)
5 C
6 B (maybe C)
7 D
8 C
9 A
10 B
11 C (The other three are listed in paragraph 7, and paragraph 6 ends with, “the Anasazi had no known enemies, and there is no sign of warfare”)
Passage 3
19 A
20 C
21 D
22 B
23 A
24 C
25 C
26 D
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Listening Question Types:
- main idea
- detail
- inference
- purpose
- function
- prediction
- attitude
- organization
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Inference Questions
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Handout (Cambridge) p. 289 exercise L18 - Listen to the passages. Decide whether each statement is a correct inference.
1 Yes
2 No
3 No
4 Yes - It’s correct to infer that it has probably not been done on humans.
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exercise L19 - Listen to the passages and choose the correct inference.
1 B
2 D
3 A
4 B (Education majors are the ones most likely to care about keeping junior high students interested in a topic.)
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exercise L20 - Answer the questions in your own words.
1 She is an art major.
2 To give examples of low-tech toys that keep kids’ interest (because they can imagine them however they want).
3 To hear different regional Spanish accents and to get authentic experience outside of class.
4 There has been a violent crime on campus.
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(Oxford) p. 231 - Answer the pre-listening questions.
faculty (BrEng) = school/college (AmEng)
- For example, my classes in math and philosophy were both offered by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at my university.
- “arts” in academia means skills, not fine arts
	(Liberal Arts = the typical academic subjects of science, history, literature, etc.)
- (“science” originally meant knowledge)
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4L5 - How can you abbreviate these words?
1 appt
2 bhvr
3 cog neu sci / cog n-sci
4 bio sci
5 spc deg
6 req
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Listen and take notes about the conversation. Compare your notes with your partner. Did you note or remember the same information about the conversation?
4L6 - Answer the questions about the conversation.
1 c
2 a
3 a d
4 b c d
5 c d
6 c (Assume it takes place in the US. The February deadline is pretty soon.)
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Practice 2 - Listen and take notes on a different piece of paper.
With your partner, compare your notes and complete the outline notes on p. 232
1. Study
    * participants
    - school children
    * method
    - measured body mass, did exercise to assess fitness, took a (cognitive) test
    * results
    - fittest students scored higher
2. Science behind results = process
    1. move the muscles
    2. produces IFG-1, which goes to the brain
    3. increases the production of BDNF
3. BDNF = Brain-derived neurotrophic factor
    * promotes higher level thought
    * more exercise = more capacity to handle cognitive tasks
    * study: BDNF causes new brain cells and new connections between cells
    * chemical that facilitates learning
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4L8 - Answer these questions
1 c
2 d
3 d
4 a c (d is true, but doesn’t explain why it’s important to cognitive ability)
5 a
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p. 234-5 - Listen and take notes. Then answer the questions.
1 b
2 b c
3 a
4 d
5 c
6 b
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Cambridge p. 295 (on screen) - Listen and take notes. Then answer the questions.
1 A
2 B
3 B
4 A
5 D