TOEFL iBT Integrated Speaking Task

Dodo Reading notes
Main Idea: why the dodo became extinct (later revised to the popular idea of why the dodo became extinct)
     MP1 --- phrase dead as dodo means totally dead
     MP2 --- dodo flightless bird
                   -- lived on Mauritius
                   -- up to 1m tall, 20kgs
     MP3 --- no natural predators, so fearless
     MP4 --- most people think European sailors killed all dodos
                   -- Europeans came to Mauritius in 16th, 17th cent.
                   -- dodos unafraid so easy to catch for food
                   -- by end 17th cent dods extinct


Dodo Listening notes
Main Idea: real reason dods became extinct
    MP1 ---unlikely Europeans hunted dodo (diaries say dodo meat tough, bad taste)
                 -- other tasty birds on island
                 -- why hunt dodo?
    MP2 --- 1st reason: Europeans brought animals –dogs, pigs, rats
                 -- like dodo eggs
                 -- destroyed dodo nests
    MP2 --- 2nd reason: Europeans cut down forests
                 -- destroyed dodo’s natural habitat

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