Guangzhou YMCA TOEFL  week 9                                     home page         




Some advise on speaking: If there is a word in a reading passage that you know you
cannot pronounce well (or at all), try Not to use that word in your speech. For
instance, I often have a very hard time pronouncing the word 'Schenectady' (a town
in New York), so I avoid trying to say it at all. In 'real life' I actually should
try to say it so that I might learn how to 'get my tongue around it' properly.

I will write some other things later if I can come up with something.



last week:


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I think we should do some practice this week.  (-:

Also, please study Appendix A - 'Cohesion' - in the textbook. If we have not copied the 
appendixes and some other things, perhaps we should. I will try to study the cohesion
section, and will try to talk about it and give examples, but I cannot promise that my
presentation will be very coherent. I find that my mind is not working too coherently 
lately, as evidenced by the fact that I had planned on talking about this last week,
but my lesson plan failed to cohere. Things just did not seem to come together well
last week. Hopefully, I will get my act together - as to behave in an orderly manner -
this week or sometime this decade.

The above, bye the way, is a simple example of using cohesion in a short statement,
simply by the repetitive use of variations of the root word (cohere) or variations
of key ideas in most sentences.





Here are the practice questions from week 3 that you can practice on you own if you wish -  again.

Have paper and pencil ready, please (-; 

Question One       Question Two       Question Three