2016-11-11 TOEFL: Listening Function questions

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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A woman was enjoying herself in the park. She heard someone call her name from behind her. She threw what she had in her hand and turned to look for the person who had called her name. Ten seconds later, she was dead?
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Two guys went to the bar. One waited one minute, ordered five drinks, and drank them all. The other ordered one drink from the same bottle, waited five minutes, and then drank it. Then he died. Why didn’t the first one die?
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Listening Function Questions - about the rhetorical function of a word or sentence in a listening
“What does the man mean when he says this?”
“Why does the woman say this?”
“What does the man imply when he says this?”
- Related to (and in some books combined with) attitude questions, which ask about a speaker’s attitude toward a specific topic.
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Handout (Cengage p. 321) - Listen to the excerpts and decide if each statement is true or false. (You can look at the questions as you listen.)
1 T - He is being sarcastic, and she recognizes his sarcasm and agrees with him.
2 F
3 T - “about once a century” emphasizes that it’s extremely rare
4 T
5 F - To leave his apartment “spick and span”, he has to spend time cleaning, so he can’t move out quickly.
6 T
7 T
8 F
9 T
10 F
11 T
12 F - The real problem was that some of the essays were very long.
- In many of the conversations, the function questions will require you to identify things like sarcasm from the speakers’ tone.
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Skip ahead to Cengage p. 322 (after pages from Oxford, which I accidentally copied first)
Now listen and take some notes before answering each question.
1 A
2 A (“it was a complete bust” = it was a complete failure, as the purpose of an archaeological dig)
3 B
4 B
5 D (“right up one’s alley” = it’s exactly the sort of thing someone needs or wants)
6 A
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BREAK
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“When you use it you throw it away. When you don’t need it, you pick it up.”
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Go back to the second page of the handout (Oxford p. 370)
Listen and take notes about the lecture. Then answer the questions on p. 370.
1 d
2 d
3 a
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Listen and take notes about the conversation. Then answer the questions on p. 371.
1 c
2 b
3 b
4 c
5 b
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p. 372-3 Listening Practice 3 - Listen and take notes, then answer the questions.
1 d
2 c
3 b
4 b
5 d
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p. 373 Listening Practice 4 - Listen and take notes, then answer the questions.
1 c
2 d
3 c
4 d
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There is extra practice on pages 246-251 in your DELTA book.