TOEFL Integrated Writing Method: Note Taking - Reading

hello i'm alex one of the expert toefl teachers here at e2 language and in this video we are talking about toefl integrated writing toefl integrated writing note taking for reading in this video i'm going to tell you all about toefl integrated writing and we're going to focus on the reading part of it and learn how to take notes i'll describe the integrated writing task we'll read a passage together and complete a note-taking template so let's start by talking about toefl integrated writing what happens in this task now there are basically three steps firstly you read a passage and take notes for about three minutes then you're going to listen to a lecture on the same topic and take more notes this goes for about two minutes and finally you write an integrated summary where you bring the information together from the reading and the listening and you have 20 minutes to do this part in this video we're working on this part here reading a passage and taking notes now the reading does appear again after you've done the listening so why do you need to take notes well the notes are going to save you time in the end you don't want to be reading and re-reading and re-reading the same passage so in that three minutes at the beginning taking effective notes is really going to help you when it comes to writing your summary so this is a typical reading passage and this is the template for our note-taking on the left we've got a column for main idea and on the right we've got a column for the details so as you're reading that text you're looking for the main ideas and almost always there are going to be three of them three main ideas in the reading passage and for each idea there is supporting details as well so how do we find the main ideas the first place you should look is the topic sentence now what is a topic sentence it's the first line of every paragraph so in the text that we've got here there are three paragraphs that means there are three topic sentences now we look to the topic sentence because that usually tells us what's coming up in the paragraph so let's look at this first one together while scientists have claimed that climate change should cause sea levels to rise at increasing rates because of melting ice caps in greenland and antarctica sea level rise has slowed all right so so it seems to me like the main idea is sea levels and how climate change affects them if i want to just confirm that that's the main idea i can skim quickly through the rest of the paragraph looking for repeated words or ideas if the same word or idea appears a few times it's pretty obvious that that's the main point of this paragraph so when i look through really quickly you can see sea level sea level sea level rise quite a lot of instances so this confirms to me this is my first main point and i'll pop it here as my first main idea if i need a little bit more i need to know what the writer is saying about c level so i actually need to slow down a little bit and read the paragraph now so let's have a look together after that first sentence the writer continues sea levels have always risen between ice ages or during interglacial periods indeed sea levels have risen more than 400 feet since the end of the last interglacial period now a word like this indeed and i can see the next word coming up is however these words really send off an alarm in my head they make me pay attention so indeed it's going to give me some evidence or an example to support the sentence before however is going to contradict that information okay so indeed sea levels have risen however the rate of sea level rise since 1961 is far lower than the historic average since the end of the previous ice age so far lower also there's another trigger word also more information measured sea level rise is well below the rise predicted by those climate models claiming sea levels would increase because of anthropogenic warming so i can see in there there were predictions about sea level rising but the key points here actually it hasn't risen as much as expected so yes sea levels have always risen between ice ages but the rise since 61 is far lower than the historic average and well below the rise predicted by experts so these are my important details and i scribble them on my note paper always arise between ice ages recent rises lower than the historic average and the rise lower than predicted all of that on test day should take about one minute so you're working really quickly but still reading quite carefully so now let's move on to body paragraph two we're looking for our second main idea i've got the feeling now this uh text is all about climate change the first main idea related to rising sea levels i'm going to look for the second one now so let's start with the topic sentence we'll read it together based on climate models projections of land and ecosystem shifts and changes biologists have predicted global warming would cause numerous plant and wildlife extinctions yet they have been unable to point to a single instance of a species going extinct due to human-caused climate change thus far so from that first sentence there i can firstly i get the feeling that we're throwing climate change into some doubt here and to me the main point that catches my eye is this extinctions plant and wildlife or animal extinctions and when i run my eye through the paragraph i can see something about polar bears a decline grown dramatically populations have declined so i'm pretty confident this is my main point it's all about wildlife extinction but what exactly does the writer say about wildlife extinction let's read a little more carefully from the second sentence for instance although sea ice in the arctic has declined over the past 20 years polar bears which various scientists predicted would be driven to extinction due to declining sea ice sea levels have proven highly adaptable so polar bears they predicted a decline but they have proven highly adaptable their populations have grown dramatically over the past 60 years from approximately 5 000 bears in the 1950s to more than 25 000 today in the few locations in which populations have declined temperatures have been cooler not warmer than average during the past few decades so seeing a lot of information here about what experts and scientists predicted would happen you know mass extinction decline in polar bears and what has actually happened which is no extinctions and increase in polar bear populations so these are my details and i'll scribble them on my notepad so no instance of extinction due to climate change reported polar bears were predicted to be extinct but numbers have risen so now i need my third point i'm going to look to the third paragraph for this let's try the topic sentence scientists have also claimed climate change is causing the oceans to warm and become more acidic oceans to become warm and more acidic so i've really got a feeling now of what the structure of this this passage is so i'm pretty confident this is the main point in body three ocean acidity everything is in relation to climate change what does it say about ocean acidity they point so scientists point to widespread coral bleaching and coral reef deaths as proof and as a warning of the worsening conditions that will come if the global warming problem isn't solved immediately however here's one of those trigger words however as with the alleged polar bear extinction crisis the rumors of coral reefs deaths have been greatly exaggerated coral reefs evolved during and survived through several more dramatic climate shifts than the one the world is currently undergoing and they have proven much more resilient than climate alarmists have claimed all right so same thing as with the polar bears it was expected that coral reefs would die off and bleach but these have been exaggerated coral reefs evolved and survived during more dramatic climate change so these are my my details so these are my details it's focusing on coral bleaching which people expected to happen as a result of acidity but these rumors are exaggerated coral reefs have survived other dramatic changes so now i've got my three main points i've got a bunch of details here so now that we've got our three main points from the reading and some notes we are ready to do the listening part of this task so as we listen we're also going to take notes if you want to do some work on that make sure you come and sign up at e2language.com once you've done some practice in the course materials and joined our live classes try our mini mock test this gives you a taste of all the toefl tasks and gives you an indication of what your score will be everything you need for your toefl preparation is there on e2language.com

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Length: 10min 40sec (640 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 12 2020