2018-03-01 TOEFL: speaking 4, history vocab

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: History vocabulary handout
1 invention (invent, inventor, inventive)
2 kingdom
3 rule (ruler)
4 period
5 construct (construction, constructive)
6 restrict (restriction, restrictive)
7 ancient
8 society
9 document (documented)
10 hierarchy (hierarchical)
11 found (foundation)
12 civilization (civilize, civilized)
13 settler (settle, settlement)
14 establish (establishment, established)
15 overthrow (noun and verb, different stress)
16 monarchy (monarch)
17 revolution (revolutionary, revolt)
18 declare (declaration, declarative)
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ETS 2 test 1 - Take 5 minutes with your partner to prepare a “perfect” response to speaking task 4.
Your response should include these things:
1 Introduction: summarize what the text says about the topic
2 Lead-in: how does the professor develop the topic?
3 First point
4 Detail/Example
5 Second point
6 Detail/Example
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Record your responses to ETS 2 tests 2-4. Then listen to your recordings and decide which one we can hear as a class.
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BREAK
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Make sure you don’t spend too much time summarizing the main idea of the text. The primary information you need to explain in this task is what the professor says.
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Handout (Collins) p. 41 part A - Choose the correct vocabulary word to complete each sentence.
1 documents
2 revolution
3 restricted
4 settlers
5 established
6 monarchy
7 kingdom
8 invention
part B - Use the correct forms of the words to complete the paragraph.
1 settled
2 established/founded/constructed
3 documents
4 society
5 hierarchy
6 rulers
7 constructed
8 overthrown
9 declared
10 period
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p. 42 - Take a couple of minutes to read the paragraph and answer the questions.
1 A
2 D
3 A [1]
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“Although at times it descended into violence, the Revolution played a critical role.”
- We can use a pronoun in the first clause to refer to something in the second if the first clause is dependent.
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After John got home, he cooked dinner. (OK)
After he got home, John cooked dinner. (OK: “he” can mean someone else, or it could be John.)
John cooked dinner after he got home. (OK)
He cooked dinner after John got home. (Now “he” means someone other than John.)
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Take 15 minutes to answer the questions about Political Systems of the 20th Century.
Then check your answers with your partner.
15 B - fact
16 A - vocab
17 A - purpose
18 C - vocab
19 D - fact
20 B - vocab
21 D - fact
22 C - paraphrase
23 B - negative fact
24 A - inference
25 D - sentence insertion
26 monarchy: A E
   democracy: B F
   dictatorship: D
    - categorize/organize information