THE INDEPENDENT WRITING TASK 126LESSON 11

Questions 98The Independent Writing Task 126Lesson 11: Purpose, Method and Attitude Questions 99Independent Writing Preview Test 126Lesson 12: Replay Questions 99Lesson 25: Pre-Writing the Independent Response 126Lesson 13: Ordering and Matching Questions 99Lesson 26: Giving Opinions and Connecting Ideas inLesson 14: Completing Charts 99the Independent Response 127Listening Review Test 100Lesson 27: Writing the Independent Response 128Listening Tutorial: Note Taking 102Lesson 28: Checking and Editing the IndependnetResponse 128Guide to Speaking 103Writing Review Test 129The Independent Speaking Task 103Writing Tutorial: Grammar 129Independent Speaking Preview Test 103Lesson 15: Personal Preference Task 103Practice Test 1 130Lesson 16: Paired Choice Task 104Practice Test 2 135The Integrated Speaking Task 105Integrated Speaking Preview Test 105

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Student:

I, I’m interested in writing about earthquakes . . .

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Professor:

Hmm. Earthquakes . . . well, I don’t know, Brenda

. . . that sounds like much too broad a topic for a short

research paper.

Student:

Oh, well, I’m planning to choose . . . I plan to get

more specific than that. I want to write about using ani-

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mals to predict earthquakes.

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Professor:

Really? Well, once scientists wondered if maybe

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. . . if perhaps there was some connection between strange

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behavior in animals and earthquakes . . . and that maybe

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animals . . . that you could use them to predict earth-

quakes. But there have been a lot of studies on this subject,

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you know, and so far, none of them have shown anything

promising . . .

Student:

But I thought there was this . . . I saw this show on