2018-10-03 TOEFL: reading purpose, listening attitude

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: finish the handout (exercises 4.1 and 4.2)
Exercise 4.1
21 T
22 F
23 T
24 T (“management mode” is a failure of leadership, because the people who should be leaders (managers) aren’t)
25 F
26 T (The “familiar mathematical concept” is zero on the number line.)
27 T
28 T
29 F
30 F
31 T
Exercise 4.2
10 D
11 A (There’s an introduction about the transition to post-modernism, and then most of the paragraph is about double coding.)
12 C
13 D
14 B
15 C
16 A
17 D (Asking “However, is it useful?” suggests that the author thinks it’s not.)
18 A
19 C
20 C
21 B
22 A
23 A
24 B
25 A
26 D
27 D
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Listening Question Types:
- main idea
- detail
- inference
- purpose
- attitude
- organization
- prediction
- function
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rhetorical question = A question for which the speaker or writer doesn’t expect an answer.
	(This can be because they will tell you the answer next, or because they expect you to arrive at the same answer on your own. It can also simply get you to think about the topic.)
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Function and Attitude Questions - You often listen again to answer function questions, and attitude questions can include things like tone of voice and identifying sarcasm or dishonesty.
(To practice that, you can watch English movies and TV shows, which is really the only “fun” TOEFL practice there is.)
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Listen to the consultation with a librarian. Answer the questions in your own words on p. 142 of the handout.
1 It’s his job to help students. Yes, he can help her. (And she should already know that.)
2 To emphasize that it’s necessary information. (And she should already understand that.)
3 To acknowledge and correct her mistake.
4 He’d be “happy” to help her again.
	(He says, “Feel free to come by any time.”)
Listen to the next conversation, then go to p. 144 and answer the questions.
5 D
6 B
7 C
8 A
9 B
Do the same on p. 145
10 D
11 A
12 C
13 B
Answer the questions for p. 146-7
14 D
15 C
16 A
17 B
18 A
19 D
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This handout calls them “stance” questions, but the next section is about attitude.
p. 152
1 B
2 C
p. 153
3 D
4 A
p. 154
5 B
6 D
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Homework: finish the handout (audio will be at the link I email to you)