2017-02-22 TOEFL: organization (read and listen)

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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http://www.ets.org/toefl/ibt/prepare/toefl_interactive_sampler/
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The last question about a reading passage can require you to either summarize the main ideas from the text or organize or categorize information (especially if the text is a comparison of two or more things).
DELTA p. 165-167 - General overview of organization questions.
Take 3 minutes to categorize the examples for part 3 on p. 167
High quality: A D E
Low quality: B F
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p. 169-171 exercise 1.9.A - Take 10 minutes to answer the organization questions about each short passage. Then check with your partner.
1 Enlightenment: B E
  Romanticism: A C F
2 Rock Floor: A D F
  Accumulation Floor: C G
3 Plants: B F H
  Animals: A D E I
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Handout (Cambridge) p. 223-225 - Take 10 minutes to answer the questions about passages 1-4. Then check with your partner. Figure out why you disagree if you don’t have the same answer, and try to reach an agreement.
1 A D, B E
2 D E, A C
3 A D, C E
4 A D, C E
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BREAK
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Take another 10 minutes for readings 5 and 6 on p. 225-227. Then check with your partner. Figure out why you disagree if you don’t have the same answer, and try to reach an agreement.
5 D E H, A B F I
6 A D G I, C F H
sleep paralysis is a different thing, in which the person feels paralyzed but is mentally awake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
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Reading speed improvement:
- read a lot
- read out loud to make sure you aren’t skipping things
- improve your vocabulary so you don’t have to stop and figure out what words mean
- Identify important ideas and their relationships as you read
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Handout p. 224-5 - final sentence: “Unlike some traditional...large numbers of tourists.”
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The listening section also has questions about organization, though they involve identifying the organization of a lecture instead of organizing information yourself.
DELTA p. 252 - Listen to part of a lecture and identify how it is organized.
It’s a description of a process and it’s ordered chronologically.
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p. 254 exercise 2.6.A - Listen to the excerpts and answer the questions.
1 C
2 C
3 D
4 B
5 D
6 B
7 A
8 A C
P. 255 exercise 2.6.B - Listen to the first excerpts and answer the questions.
1 C
2 D
(stopped at 2:45)
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Homework: Handout (Cengage) p. 167-174 - Answer the questions about all 5 passages.