This book provides many opportunities for practice writing summaries of reading passages and lectures. Again, you can provide additional practice by having the students wflte summaries of things they have read or news stories they have listened to, Kncourage students ro share with the class summaries | 120 Writing for the TOEFL BT 11. Some of the study subjecs college students herd popular music in the store and others heared older music. 12. Those who heard familiar music shoped longer and said better things about the store s products. PRACTICE 4 Read the following essays. Then revise the essays adding punctuation. Write on your computer or on a piece of paper. Essay 1 the author states that invasive plants harm native plants and the speaker explains that garlic mustard is an invasive species that causes problems. gardeners have introduced nonnative plants for food and medicine they have also planted them because they are hardy drought resistant or beautiful however these plants escape from the garden and cause problems invasive plants harm native species by shading them out strangling them or using up all the nutrients in the soil the local ecology suffers because there are fewer native plants and animals lose their homes and food. garlic mustard is an example of an invasive plant that harms the local ecology it threatens other spring-blooming plants by taking up light nutrients and space it also threatens the West Virginia white butterfly by competing with another type of mustard which is the butterfly s food source garlic mustard was first grown on long island for food and has since spread to other areas of the country. based on Reading 1 and Lecture 1 page 48 see Summary I on page 361 Writing Skills Integrated Task 121 Essay 2 the author believes that TV viewing has negative effects on children s school performance. The speaker on the other hand proposes that TV watching can actually improve school performance. according to the author children who have TV sets in their bedrooms do not do as well in school as their classmates some people think of TV as educational but the author asserts that most children s TV programs do not have valuable content. in addition TV takes time away from important activities like doing homework or being with other people parents
