2017-11-08 TOEFL: reading vocab, listening organization

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: check your email (Cambridge)
1 B
2 D
3 A
4 D
5 C
6 A
7 B
8 C
9 A
10 D (“scores” has at least three other meanings, but the point is to pick the correct synonym in context)
	- Make sure you check the context, even if you think you already know the meaning of a word.
11 D
12 B
13 C
14 D
15 B
16 C
17 A
18 A
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DELTA p. 48-69 has additional practice for vocabulary questions
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TOEFL Test: four sections, 30 points each, about 4 hours total
1 reading: 60-80 minutes, 3 or 4 passages (20 minutes each, 14-15 questions each)
2 listening: 60-90 minutes, 2 or 3 sets (3 passages each, 17 questions each, 10 minutes to answer each)
	(10-minute break)
3 speaking: 20 minutes, 6 tasks, 5.5 minutes of speaking time
4 writing: 60 minutes, 2 tasks (20 and 30 minutes of writing time)
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Listening Section: after you answer a questions and click “next”, you can’t return to that question
	Also remember that the 10 minutes of answering time is for the whole set of three listenings.
Listening Question Types:
- detail
- main idea / gist (content or purpose)
- purpose (“Why does the speaker talk about ___?”)
- function (“Why does the speaker say this? [listen again]”)
- attitude (“How does the speaker feel about ___?”)
- prediction (“What will probably happen next?”)
- organization (“How does the professor organize the information in the lecture?”)
- inference (“What can be inferred about ___?”)
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Organization Questions - “How does the professor organize the information?”
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DELTA p. 252 - Listen to the audio and answer the question. - D
p. 253 gives some common patterns of organization that may be on the TOEFL.
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Handout (Oxford) p. 293 also includes some transitions and other expressions typical of each type of organization.
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DELTA p. 255 exercise 2.6.B - Listen to parts of lectures and answer the questions.
1 C
2 D
3 A
4 C
5 D
6 opposite basal alternate opposite
7 B
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Handout (Oxford) p. 302 - Answer the pre-listening discussion questions.
Then listen to the lecture and answer the questions. (#3 is on the next page)
1 c
2 a
3 2 1 1 2
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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4488 - Women don’t talk more than men on average, and there has never been any research suggesting this.
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Listen and take notes about gender and communication styles.
Then answer the questions on 304 and 305.
1 c
2 d
3 f m f m m f
4 2 2 1 2 1 1
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Homework: The other handout (Longman). Audio files are in the link I emailed to everyone.