NOTE TAKING, PARAPHRASING, AND SUMMARIZING (2) BUILDING SUPPORTING SKILLS CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST

 

CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST BUILDING SUPPORTING SKILLS NOTE TAKING, PARAPHRASING, AND SUMMARIZING (2)

 

EXERCISE NPS2 Using short forms Practice using abbreviated forms by writing your own short form of the words listed below. department _____ dpt ____ percentages ______ %s ______ anthropologist _____ anthrop _______   1 association _____________________________ 2 World Health Organization _____________________________ 3 for example _____________________________ 4 lexicography _____________________________ 5 building _____________________________ 6 equals _____________________________ 7 concentrated _____________________________ 8 chapters _____________________________ 9 developing _____________________________ 10 without _____________________________ EXERCISE NPS3 Abbreviating sentences Read the sentences, and write them in a shortened form. 1 Ironworking probably spread to the rest of Africa via the Meroitic civilization. 2 Finely  ground pigments mixed with a base such as egg yolk was the exclusive medium for painting panels in the Middle Ages. EXERCISE NPS4 Predicting what will follow a signal word or words Write the kind of information you would expect to hear when a speaker uses the connecting words below. 1 likewise _____________________________ 2 therefore _____________________________ 3 as an illustration _____________________________ 4 granted that _____________________________ 5 incidentally _____________________________ 6 previously _____________________________ 7 conversely _____________________________ 8 furthermore _____________________________ 9 above all _____________________________ 10 to summarize _____________________________   EXERCISE NPS5 Analyzing note-taking strategies Answer the questions 1 How can I increase my speed in taking notes? ______________________________________________________________________________ 2 How can I organize the notes to show cause-and-effect relationships? ______________________________________________________________________________ 3 How can I organize my notes to show comparisons and contrasts in passages? ______________________________________________________________________________ 4 How can I organize my notes to indicate the reasoning for and against an argument in passages? ______________________________________________________________________________ 5 How can I organize my notes to combine the points made in the tasks that integrate reading and listening? ______________________________________________________________________________

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