TOEFL LISTENING (20.06.09)

        ❑        Introduction Listening p.9
        ❑        Listening Tutorial p.150
        ❑        Lesson 9: Topic / Purpose p.27
        ✓        Lesson 10: Fact / N-Fact / Infer p.44
        ❑        Lesson 11: Purpose / Attitude p.73
        ❑        Lesson 12: Replay p.87
        ❑        Lesson 13: Ordering / Matching p.108


Cambridge
        ✓        Intro: p.2
        ❑        Basic question types: p.5
        ❑        Natural Speech p. 6
        ❑        Referents p.10
        ❑        Signals p.14
        ❑        IDing topics p.16
        ✓        Mini test p.21
        ✓        Organizing info p.32
        ✓        Inferences and drawing conclusions p. 40
        ❑        Min test p.46
        ✓        Test.







        

TOEFL READING (13.06.09) cycle 2

ATTENDEES


IBT2007
        ❑        Introduction Reading p.2
        ❑        Lesson 1: Factual & Negative Factual p.27
        ❑        Lesson 2: Vocabulary p.48
        ❑        Lesson 3: Inference p.65
        ❑        Lesson 4: Purpose / Method / Opinion p.83
        ✓        Lesson 5: Restatement p.104
        ✓        Lesson 6: Reference p.117
        ✓        Lesson 7: Sentence Addition p.133
        ✓        Lesson 8: Summary / Chart p.149
p1: species move / bio barriers prevent move
p2:physical B.
P3: competition B.
p4: Bahavioural B.
p5: Corridor NP.
p6. filter route NP.
p7: sweepstakes
p8: invasion (humans) NP.

CAMTOEFL
        ✓        Types        4
        ✓        Understanding meaning        7
        ✓        Understanding Connected Ideas        28
        ✓        Understanding Details & Paraphrasing        42
        ✓        Drawing Inferences        63
        ✓        Summaries & Charts        80
        ❑        Reading Practice Test        95 n

IELTS Intensive (Grammar)

        ✓        Presenting an argument
        ✓        Articles
        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/determiners/determiners.htm#articles
a / an = use an when the next syllable is a vowel: a european country, an honest man

• I’m going to hospital tomorrow
  • the person needs treatment
• I’m going to the hospital tomorrow
  • the location
  • Countries:
    • Russia
    • The United Kingdom
    • France
    • The United States
    • The Netherlands
    • The Soviet Union
    • (North) Korea
    • Saudi Arabia
• A bus crashed into a car yesterday. The bus driver was drunk. The car was American.
• rivers: The Thames
• mountains: Everest
• mountain ranges: The Alps
• lakes: Lake Erie
• seas: The North sea
• oceans: The Indian Ocean, The Atlantic.

        ✓        ArticlesAcademic writing p.130
        ✓        Uncountable nouns
        ✓        Email English
        ✓        Pronunciation p/b
p.14 Hancock

IELTS intensive (Speaking)

P.138 of the pdf.

VOCABULARY
“my family consists of: my parents, my brother Tom, and me.
“I’m sorry, what do you mean?”

If the government spent more money on education.....it would [low confidence]

If the g. spends more money on education...it will [high confidence]

-
If you had studied harder, you would have passed [the unreal future of the past]

lake como
summer holidays
family and friends - brother very close
the weather -the atmosphere - relaxing
why?
-family retreat
-practice language
-roots\

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brother: Tom
2 year -kaz
PWC
why?
-skilled
-intel / lang.
-understanding
-but pers life not so much

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computer trainer
technically minded
stages tech/QTS
why: kids, teaching, computing
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MORE VOCABULARY
attention to detail
perfectionist
ACCA / Cima - higher education -postgraduate
reclusive - cliche
comunicative
to qualify - to become a professional
he needs to have steady hands
diverse education
oratory skills - needs to be a good speaker
diplomatic - being creative with the truth
flexible honesty
adventurous
career prospects
extroverts
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p.60
Jasmina: 12/16
it’s important to get on with your colleagues
perks / benefits


Dima: 14/20
“will be” -is
“according” - according to
“should all employees”
“

Raja: 7/12
“companies should implement”

lifestyle
-excersize
-diet
organic products
diet between countries

-leisure
people working too hard?
too much tv?
role of technology? change the future? - virtual reality

-fun

-religious orientation
-sexual orientation
-meditation
physical and mental benefits
what role could meditation play in our lives?
-eletronics
-fashion

JP:

TOEFL notes 6th June (Writing) -Essays

• OBJECTIVE

To learn how to write essays for tests of English Ability

• AIMS

1. Reading essay questions properly
2. Organizing essay properly
3. Writing essay properly

• ASSESSMENT

1. Class assessment
2. Essay Task homework

        ❑        Explain what an essay question means (50 words)
        ❑        Brainstorm ideas
        ❑        Organize a plan
        ❑        Write the essay

VOCABULARY
work ethic.
car-pooling“nothing is as it appears” discuss?

IELTS Intensive Writing

UNITS
        ✓        Unit 1
        ✓        Unit 2

1. The graph shows how the quantity of visitors to Brazil rose considerably between 1995 and 2000.
2. The graph shows how the quantity of visitors to Brazil rose considerably from 1995 to 2000 (inclusive).
3. The graph shows the significant growth in visitors to Brazil with the years 1995-2000.
4. The table shows the fluctuation in the number of Japanese visitors abroad between July 2005 and May 2006 (inclusive). The major trend is the popularity of overseas travel in the summer months.
5. To peak = “To peak at . ”
6. peak [noun] = ”reach a peak of .“ hit a peak
7. Till now // to the present

        ✓        Unit 3
        ❑        Unit 4 - homework
        ❑        Unit 5 - homework

TIPS

1. The graph shows...
2. The diagram explains how A completes B
3. The diagram show the process of C
4. “An ancillary trend is that while developed countries see a reduction in fixed-phoe usage as time goes on, developing countries, like M & C, see continued growth”
5. “(inclusive)” - only for past date ranges
6. Cost ($) = “...the cost (in dollars)...”
7. Be careful of graphs where the axis doesn’t begin a 0. Trends may look more significant than they really are if a graph begins at, say 50 and only goes up to 60.
8. [sub, verb, obj] - adverbials: how, where, when
9. “four-fold” increase
10. To conlude: the graph clearly charts the very busy periods of the morning and afternoon rush hour.“

vocabulary
Fluctuate / fluctuation (in)
ATTENDEES
Dima, Raja,
Notes
http://www.ielts-blog.com/Calculate-Ielts-Result-Reading-Listening-Band-Score.html

IELTS Intensive Reading

ATTENDEES
Dima, Raja

UNITS - READING
        ✓        UNIT 5
                ❑        H/W - No. 11 p.64
        ✓        UNIT 6
        ✓        UNIT 7
        

VOCABULARY
Ubiquity = present, appearing, or found everywhere : his ubiquitous influence was felt by all the family | cowboy hats are ubiquitous among the male singers.
pro rata = proportional

OTHER NOTES