tailieunhanh - Delta's key to the next generation toefl test part 41

Tham khảo tài liệu 'delta's key to the next generation toefl test part 41', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 43 Developing IPEAS EXTENSION I. Share and discuss your response to one of the writing questions in Exercises . A through . Work in a group of three students. Make copies of your response and give a copy to everyone in your group. Read and discuss each student s writing. Answer the following questions about each a. How is the response organized b. What key points does the writer convey c. How does the writer support and develop each point d. What transitions and expressions make the writing coherent e. Does the response answer the question effectively Make suggestions that will help each student improve in the future. 396 Delta s Key to the Next Generation TOEFL Test Sentence Structure Checking Sentence Structure Q focus Read the following paragraph from a student s response to an integrated writing question Some method of irrigation not efficient. For example flooding a field with water. The water it collects on the field in a pond then evaporate or passing into groundwater. So waste a lot of water. Sprinkler system spray water on crops this is better than flooding however they also waste water. Because use a lot of water they waste. Generally speaking surface method of irrigation are not efficient in using water. The student s response contains many errors in sentence structure. Some errors obscure meaning making the writer s message unclear. Can you identify the errors Now read the same paragraph without errors. Some methods of irrigation are not efficient. One example is flooding a field with water. The water collects on the field in a pond and then evaporates or passes into groundwater which wastes a lot of water. Sprinkler systems spray water on crops which is better than flooding however they also waste water. Generally speaking surface methods of irrigation are not efficient in using water. On the TOEFL a response to the integrated writing task can have a few minor language errors and still earn a high score if the errors do not obscure .