2018-12-12 TOEFL: listening func/att

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: do the “Coral Colonies” passage on the handout from class today, and exercise 6.2 questions 1-20 on the new handout
Compare your answers with your partners. If you disagree, convince them that your answer is right.
Longman
1 A
2 C
3 B
4 A
5 B
6 D
7 A
8 C - “them” might also mean coraline structures, as every they/them/their in the previous several sentences refers to
9 D
10 B
11 D
12 B
13 A
Cengage
1 D
2 B
3 D
4 C
5 C
6 D - We’d want to save the minerals, not the bubbles. (This is called the froth flotation process.)
7 B
8 A
9 C
10 C
11 A
12 A
13 D
14 B
15 B
16 C
17 C
18 D
19 A
20 B
“A is not the same as B, it is different.” - “it” = A
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Listening question types:
- purpose (why does the speaker mention ___?)
- organization (how is the talk organized?)
- prediction (what will the student probably do next?)
- detail
- main idea (content or purpose)
- function (what does the speaker mean when they say ____?)
- inference (what can be inferred about ____? what does the speaker imply about ___?)
- attitude (how does the student feel about ___?)
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Attitude: Cambridge exercise L21 (on the screen) - Listen to the conversations. How do the people feel.
1 A D
2 B D
3 B C
4 A C
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Function: Cengage 12.1 - Listen to parts of conversations. Are the statements true or false?
1 T - They’re both being sarcastic.
2 F
3 T
4 T - “Oh no, not again” means something has already happened several times
5 F - “spic and span” means very clean
6 T
7 T
8 F
9 T
10 F
11 T
12 F - Some of them were too long.
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BREAK
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Handout (Oxford) p. 370 - Listen and take notes. Then answer the attitude and function questions.
1 d
2 d
3 a
Listen to the conversation in a fitness center.
1 c
2 b
3 b
4 c - Sort of. It also sounds a bit like he’s surprised that she’s so knowledgeable about her job.
5 b
p. 372 - Answer the pre-listening questions about mummification. Then listen to the lecture.
1 d
2 c
3 b
4 b
5 d
p. 373 - Answer the questions about the survey conversation.
1 c
2 d
3 c
4 d - “Sounds easy enough” = this is simple and I can handle it
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Cengage exercise 12.2
1 A
2 A
3 B
exercise 12.3
1 D
2 B
3 D
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Homework: do the rest of exercises 12.2 and 12.3