ACADSOC TOEFL

Test of English as Foreign Language

Section 1 Reading

Trial Lesson 2 Reading strategy ④

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3. Build up your
1. Note taking I 2. Guided practice 4. Grammar in use
vocabulary

Possessive
Passage Topic: biography
nouns

Question

Answer key

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Note taking I
1 Class time: ≤ 6 min

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Note taking I
Teaching point: explain how to take notes to the student

1. When taking notes…

• Concentrate on important words

(nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, names, dates, numbers)

• Do not write down everything you see

(omit auxiliary verbs(助动词), determiners(限定词), pronouns(代词) and prepositions(介词))

• Organize your notes in a logical form

(graph, list with major points and sub points, flow chart, etc.)

• Write clearly
• Use abbreviations and symbols

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Note taking I
Teaching point: explain how to take notes to the student

2. Abbreviations and Symbols

with w/ difference diff important imp
without w/o reference ref possible poss
at @ especially esp number #
about ~ opposed to vs compare cf
times x and so on etc or /
that is i.e. department dept through thru
for example e.g. page p limited ltd
because b/c though tho before b/4

• You can use the first syllable of the word and drop the others E.g. reference → ref
• You can omit the vowels from the words E.g. people → ppl problem → pblm
• You can use an apostrophe(’) E.g. admitted → adm’d

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Guided practice
2 Class time: ≤ 6 min

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Teaching point: ask the student to take notes before answering

Reading passage BIOGRAPHY

When World War II broke out, Capa was in New York, but he was soon back in Europe covering the war for life magazine. Some of his most famous work was
created on 6th June 1944 when he swam ashore with the first assault on Omaha Beach in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Capa, armed only with two cameras,
took more than one hundred photographs in the first hour of the landing, but a mistake in the darkroom during the drying of the film destroyed all but eight
frames. It was the images from these frames however that inspired the visual style of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar winning movie ‘Saving Private Ryan’. When life
magazine published the photographs, they claimed that they were slightly out of focus, and Capa later used this as the title of his autobiographical account of
the war.

Answer Questions 5-6 based on the passage:

5. When World War II broke out, Capa 6. A mistake meant that

a. went to New York. a. only one hundred of Capa’s photographs were published.
b. swam ashore on Omaha Beach. b. Capa lost both of his two cameras.
c. went to Europe. c. Capa’s images inspired an Oscar winning movie.
d. went to Normandy. d. Most of Capa’s images of the D-Day landing were destroyed.

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Teaching point: check the student’s answer with the keys and tell him/her where the answer can be located

Check-up
Question 5
Answer can be found When World War II broke out, Capa was in New York, but he was soon back in Europe covering the war for life magazine
Choice went to Europe.
Answer key C

Question 6
Answer can be found from but a mistake in the darkroom during the drying of the film destroyed all but eight frames.
Choice Most of Capa’s images of the D-Day landing were destroyed
Answer key D

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Vocabulary note
3 Class time: ≤ 6 min

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 Topic: biography
Teaching point: discuss with the student the key words for biography topic

Key words for biography

The suffix -graphy means a way of making pictures or of writing:
• photography → 摄影
• calligraphy → 书法
• biography → 传记

The prefix bio- is used at the beginning of nouns and adjectives that refer to life or to the study of living things:
• biology → 生物
• biography → 传记
• biochemistry→ 生物化学

The prefix auto- means of or by yourself, or operating independently and without needing help:
• autography → 自传
• autocracy → 独裁政治
• automatic → 自动的

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Grammar in use
4 Class time: ≤ 6 min

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Teaching point: explain what possessive nouns are with examples

Possessive nouns (名词所有格)

Definition: Possessive nouns show ownership. Possessive comes from the same root as possession,
something you own.
① Singular Possessives
• Add 's to singular words to show possession.
E.g. Dog's collar sister's backpack car's engine
• If a singular word ends in s, it is still necessary to add 's.
E.g. Charles's sneakers Bess's dresses bus's tires

② Plural Possessives
• If you have added an s to make a word plural (for example, cat ⇒ cats), adding 's will sound ridiculous (cats's). In
that case, add only the apostrophe(’) to the end of the word.
E.g. Dogs' collars sisters' backpacks cars' engines
• Just like singular possessives, plural possessives that don't end in s add 's.
E.g. Children's homework fish's bowls

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Self-analysis checklist

I know the note taking

strategy in TOEFL Reading.

I know how to apply the

strategy to complete reading
questions.

How well have you done this practice? You will be given
more strategies and language points in TOEFL Reading in I know what suffix –graphy means
the next lesson. I know what prefix bio- means
I know what prefix auto- means.

I know what possessive nouns

are.

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