2018-02-28 TOEFL: listening function, speaking 4

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/how-to-make-your-writing-suspenseful-victoria-smith
How many pieces of advice were given for creating suspense? (There were 5 total.)
- dramatic irony (show information to the audience, but not the characters)
- cliffhanger (end right before something important happens or is revealed)
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Homework: Handout p. 202-204 exercise R16, DELTA p. 87-89 exercise 1.4.C
Check your answers in pairs.
Handout (on the screen)
DELTA exercise 1.4.C
1 B
2 A
3 D
4 A (You should be able to get this answer without reading any of the text, because the other answers are wrong.)
5 C
6 A
7 D
8 B
9 D
10 C
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Listening Question Types:
- attitude
- main idea
- organization
- purpose
- inference
- detail
- prediction
- function
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Function questions usually involve listening again to part of the conversation, lecture, or discussion.
Handout (Cengage) p. 321 - Listen to parts of conversations or lectures and decide if each statement is true or false.
1 T
2 F
3 T
4 T
5 F
6 T
7 T
8 F
9 T
10 F
11 T
12 F
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BREAK
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exercise 12.2 - Listen to parts of conversations and choose the correct answers to these inference questions.
1 A
2 A
3 B
4 B
5 D
6 A
7 D
8 C
9 A
10 C
11 D
12 C
13 B
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exercise 12.3 - Do the same for lectures.
1 D
2 B
3 D
4 A
5 C
6 B
7 D - “He’s the mastermind behind the scheme to build the Trojan Horse.”
8 C (The words she stresses are “in theory”, which is usually contrasted with “in practice”.)
9 A
10 B
11 A
12 D
13 B
14 B
15 C
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Speaking Section: about 20 minutes for 5m30s of speaking about six tasks
1 independent, open-ended - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
2 independent, choice - 15/45
3 integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation - 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. 460 - Take 50 seconds to read about homeostasis.
What is homeostasis?
- The process an animal uses to keep its body in a normal or balanced state.
(Examples: temperature and water level)
Listen to the lecture. How are a rabbit’s ears used in homeostasis?
- They help keep the temperature of the rabbit’s body stable.
When the body temperature is too high, warm blood goes through the ears and loses heat through the skin (cooling the rabbit down).
When it’s too cold, the blood vessels narrow and send blood to the deeper parts of the body and reduce heat loss through the ears.
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“The professor describes the large ears of a rabbit. Explain how the rabbit’s ears are used in homeostasis.”
Your response should include these things:
1 Introduction: summarize what the text says about the topic (explain what homeostasis is)
2 Lead-in: how does the professor develop the topic? (“The professor explains how a rabbit uses its large ears to maintain body temperature.”)
3 First point: “When the rabbit’s body temperature is too high, the rabbit uses its ears to cool down.”
4 Detail/Example: “The blood vessels expand and more warm blood goes through the ears…”
5 Second point: “When the rabbit’s body is low, it uses its ears to stay warm.”
6 Detail/Example: “The blood vessels in the ears get smaller and send blood to the warm deeper parts…”
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Cambridge p. 472 - Read about symbiotic relationships.
symbiosis: close relationship between two organisms
three types:
	mutualism = both benefit (+ +)
	parasitism = one ben. other harm (+ -)
	commensalism = one ben. other no effect (+ 0)
		obligate = necessary to live together
facultative = it can survive on its own
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Listen to the professor.
explains symbiosis (again)
sometimes we don’t know what kind of relationship it is
	- bee and bee orchid (helps the orchid, ? about the bee)
sometimes the relationship changes
	- skin bacteria normally commensal, but can cause infection if we’re burned (parasitic)
	- shrimp and crabs on coral normally commensal, but they can protect coral if sea stars eat it (mut)
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Note that the prompt only asks you about the two relationships that change. You shouldn’t talk about the bees and the orchids in your response.
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Homework: History vocabulary handout