C04R003 – NOTE

Keywords  easy to find + hard to change/ paraphrase

- Time
- Place
- Quantity (a lot of, major, minor, piece, several, etc.)
- Noun (in all cases)
- Name & number (reading-only)
Preparation
1. Paragraph number  11 paragraphs  10s
2. Only find the names & numbers throughout the passage  1’30s
3. Check the question types 10s
3.1. Theo thứ tự details 4 lines per question
3.2. Không theo main ideas/ gist 3 types (matching, map, summary+words)
Multiple choices
1. Two parts, question and choices  question gives location.
2. Choices’ location  often 1-sentence- or 1-line-long.
3. Delete the repeated words/ phrases cases  focus on the remaining  make it match 100%.
YNG / TFNG
1. Choose the easiest to find first by underlining the keywords.
2. Underline and number the factors.
Vocabulary
- Constraint (n.) = limitation (n.) = boundary (n.) = restriction (n.)
- Tackle (v.) = face (v.) = confront (v.)
- Accelerate (v.) = pick up in pace (phr. v.) = speed up (phr. v.)
- Folklore (n.) = cultural story (n.)
- Fallible (adj.) = easy to change
- Moral high ground (phr. n.) = the tendency to do good acts/ be good
- Utopian (adj.) =/= dystopian (adj.)
- Discriminate (v.)
- Far-fetched (adj.) = unrealistic (adj.)
- Peak =/= trough (n.)
- Certain (adj.) = specific = particular  1 or 2 ideas mentioned in the passage
- Embody (v.)
- Be on the cusp of + N
- Excessive (adj.)
- Displacement (n.)
- Read between the lines (phr. v.)
Cues
Aid
https://www.wordhippo.com/
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
https://wordcounter.net/
Homework
https://eng.vt.edu/magazine/stories/fall-2023/ai.html
Listen to the source(s) attached in the link above:
- Find out 5 new words/ phrases you think you should learn.
- Give each of them 2 sentence examples and 2 synonyms/ paraphrases.
- Summarize the source(s) using those 5 new words (60-80 words) (1 for each).