Daily Guidance #8
Pick two of the following activities and complete them on your own. These activities are based on the advice that were presented in TOEFL Course .
- Do an online search to find a list of common Greek and Latin roots, such as 60+ Greek and Latin Prefixes Arranged by Meaning (opens new window). Pick 5 roots, and find the definitions of at least 3 words that use each root.
Link: http://www.englishhints.com/latin-prefixes.html
- Select an article such as "The Heartbreak That May Have Inspired the Telegraph (opens new window)” about Samuel Morse, and outline the main points using one of the outline formats shown at the end of the Prose Summary/Fill in a Table video.
Link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160426-samuel-morse-wife-lucretia-telegraph-invention/
- Using the Reading passages from TOEFL iBT Quick Prep Volume 2 (opens new window) (pages 4-5 and 10-11), select a paragraph to read. As you read, make a list of what information is important, and what is not as important. Have a partner do the same thing separately, then compare your lists.
Link: https://www.ets.org/s/toefl/pdf/qp_v2_web_a4.pdf
- Using “The Heartbreak That May Have Inspired the Telegraph (opens new window)”, find all of the pronouns that aren’t “he” (since most of those obviously refer to Samuel Morse), and determine what nouns they refer to. For example, in this excerpt, you can find the pronoun “it” and determine that it refers to “the invention”.
Link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160426-samuel-morse-wife-lucretia-telegraph-invention/
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