English Department – English 10

Prepared by: Abel M. Cadias, MA-ESL

INTEGRATED TOEFL LESSON # 1

Name: __Liu____________________________________________________________ Score: _____

I. Listening
Video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQrBwN39LJI
Directions: Choose the correct answer.
1. The video clip is about
A. Whale sharks and their size
B. Facts about whale sharks
C. Whale sharks diet
D. How whale sharks protect themselves from dog snappers
2. How many gallons of water can a whale shark process each hour?
A. 15,000
B. 500
C. 1,500
D. 65
3. It can be inferred that a whale shark is….
A. the most dangerous fish
B. the healthiest fish
C. the scariest shark
D. the friendliest shark

II. Vocabulary

A. Verbs
● Find out the meaning of the following underlined words:
1. They are also so docile that humans often swim with them without concern, snapping
photographs of their incredible size. Shooting/taking
2. Commercial fishermen have known for some time that tuna, along with many other species
of fish, congregate around objects drifting on the ocean surface. Gathered/swim
3. Fishermen often build floating structures called FADs, or fish-aggregating devices, to attract
tuna to an area, allowing them to capitalize on this behavior. Get the attention of
4. This led some fishermen to deploy nets around a whale shark to capture tuna swimming
beneath it. Catch
5. To protect whale sharks from this harm, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
(IATTC) adopted a resolution… Came up with

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III. Reading
Line 1 Whale sharks are among the largest living fish in the world -- weighing up to
40,000 pounds and 40 feet in length. They are also so docile that humans often swim
with them without concern, snapping photographs of their incredible size.
Line 4 But it is exactly their enormous bulk that had an international commission
adopt restrictions protecting them from impacts associated with the international tuna
purse seine fishing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO).
Commercial fishermen have known for some time that tuna, along with many
other species of fish, congregate around objects drifting on the ocean surface.
Line 9 Fishermen often build floating structures called FADs, or fish-aggregating devices, to
attract tuna to an area, allowing them to capitalize on this behavior. Using FADs
makes the job of finding and encircling the tuna in the purse seine nets much more
efficient.
Fishermen also learned that whale sharks are so large that they naturally attract
Line 13 tuna, much like a FAD. This led some fishermen to deploy nets around a whale shark
to capture tuna swimming beneath it. In many of the cases, the encircled whale shark
was also caught in the net and injured or died.
To protect whale sharks from this harm, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna
Commission (IATTC) adopted a resolution, by consensus, in 2013 prohibiting the
Line 20 placement of a purse seine net around whale sharks and requiring the release of whale
sharks unharmed in the event that they are inadvertently encircled by a net.

A. Identify what is asked for in the table below.

PROBLEM People start capturing whale sharks to catch tuna

CAUSE They don’t prefer using FADs

EFFECT They make the whale sharks’ population decrease

SOLUTION In 2013, they required the whale sharks to be released unharmed

B. Highlight your answers with any color that you prefer.

1. The word “docile” in line 2 is closest in meaning to

a) cute
b) cruel
c) tame
d) kind

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2. The word “their” in line 4 refers to

a) whale sharks
b) human
c) fishermen
d) tuna
3. Which of the following reasons that the author mentioned for protecting Whale
sharks?
a) They are too big
b) They are endangered species
c) They scare people
d) They eat all tuna
4. The word “congregate” in line 8 is closest in meaning to
a) attract
b) gather
c) separate
d) distribute
5. The floating structure that helps in catching tuna is called…
a) NADs
b) FADs
c) net
d) anchor
6. The word ‘attract’ in line 12 is closest in meaning to
a) catch
b) support
c) gets attention
d) pretty
7. What does the author mention about what fishermen learned from Whale sharks?
a) They eat tuna.
b) They gather tuna.
c) They attract tuna.
d) They are enormous.
8. The word “deploy” in line 13 is closest in meaning to
a) mobilize
b) move
c) swim
d) throw
9. Which of the following would likely be get injured or killed when fishermen catch
tuna?
a) coral
b) shark
c) whale shark
d) jellyfish
10. Which of the following statements does the passage support?
a) To protect the whale shark, IACCT made a rule to prevent fishermen from using
nets to catch tuna.

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b) To protect Whale sharks from extinction, IACCT allowed fishermen to use nets in
catching tuna.
c) The IACCT helped the injured Whale sharks caught by fisherman’s nets by curing
them.
d) The IACCT allowed the organization to take care of Whale sharks by adopting
them.

IV. Structure
THAT Clause: Study the examples below:

1. They are also so docile that humans often swim with them without concern, snapping
photographs of their incredible size. V+That-clause
2. Fishermen also learned that whale sharks are so large that they naturally attract tuna, much
like a FAD. Adj + that clause

THAT-CLAUSE PATTERN:

1. Pattern: V + that clause

2. Pattern: ADJ + that clause

A. Identify the patterns of “THAT-CLAUSES” in each of the following sentence.

1. They are also so docile that humans
often swim with them without concern,
snapping photographs of their incredible size.
3. Fishermen also learned that whale
sharks are so large that they naturally attract
tuna, much like a FAD.
That human often swim with them without
concern, snapping photographs of their
incredible sizes
That whale sharks are so large that they
naturally attract tuna, much like FAD

B. Write your own example of “THAT-CLAUSE” using the pattern below as your guide.

Pattern: ADJ + that She is so beautiful that he can’t gets his eyes off her.
clause