2019-01-18 TOEFL: speaking 3

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-myth-of-pandora-s-box-iseult-gillespie/
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Speaking Section: third section, after the break; 20 minutes total, 5.5 minutes speaking, 6 tasks
1 independent, open-ended - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
2 independent, choice question - 15/45
3 integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation - 30/60
4 integrated R/L/S, academic text and lecture - 30/60
5 integrated L/S, conversation about a problem and solutions - 20/60
6 integrated L/S, academic lecture - 20/60
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Speaking Task 3
- 45 seconds to read a campus announcement (This may also be a suggestion or a proposal, but it’s almost always about something new or different on campus.)
- listen to a conversation about the change, take notes on their opinions and reasons
- read and hear the prompt/question about the speaker’s opinion
- 30 seconds to prepare your response
- 60 seconds to record your response
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Read the announcement from DELTA practice tests 1.
Listen and take notes about the conversation.
What is the man’s opinion? - He’s shocked at the price (which increased).
- new parking lot is far away
- students still have to pay for it, more than they had to pay before
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You can organize your response like this:
1 Introduction: summarize the announcement (what’s it about? what reasons are given?)
2 Opinion: state the speaker’s opinion
3 Lead-in: “He gives two reasons for his opinion.”
4 First reason
5 Detail/example
6 Second reason
7 Detail/example
(8 Conclusion - if you have time)
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ETS 1.1 - Read the announcement. Then listen and take notes about the conversation.
Take 5 minutes to prepare a “perfect” response to this prompt.
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Usually it’s pretty easy to identify who has the opinion you’ll talk about and their reasons. However, because sometimes it isn’t, you should start out taking notes about what both speakers say.
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BREAK
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Record your responses to the ETS guide practice tests.
Listen to your responses and choose one we can hear as a class.
Listen to your classmates’ responses. What was good and bad about each one?
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For the third one, these are the notes I took:
Text:
- hot bfast
	+ health
	+ affordable
Conversation:
Yogurt > omelette or hot cereal
	(hot better when cold)
money - Ss will start to go off campus if can’t get it on campus
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These notes are missing a lot of details, including the woman’s whole opinion, but they should be enough to remember what she said a minute later.
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Homework (optional): If you want more feedback on yesterday’s writing than a score and a few sentences, email me this weekend with a self-evaluation. In your opinion, what did you do well or badly? What do you have to improve for next time? What did you do better than last time?
You can use the score descriptions at https://www.ets.org/s/toefl/pdf/toefl_writing_rubrics.pdf for ideas.