Hindcasting .. integrated writing 2, please correct kitos & thanks

[MoeAziz]

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The Reading passage:
It is common knowledge that forecasting is an attempt by
meteorologists to determine what weather will be like in the future.
Hindcasting is the opposite of forecasting, an attempt to determine
what weather was like in the past. Meteorologists wish that records
of weather had been kept in full for at least a few millennia, but it
has been only in the last century that detailed records of the weather
have been kept. Thus, meteorologists need to hindcast the weather,
and they do so by using all sorts of information from other fields as
diverse as archeology, botany, geology, literature, and art. These pieces
of information from other fields that are used as a basis for drawing
conclusions about what the weather must have been like at some point
in the past are called proxies.

The listening passage:

(professor): Now let me talk about how hindcasting was used in one
particular situation. This situation has to do with the weather
in seventeenth-century Holland. It appears, from proxies in
paintings from the time by numerous artists, that the weather
in Holland in the seventeenth century was much colder than it
is today. Seventeenth-century paintings show really cold winter
landscapes with huge snow drifts and ice skaters skating on
frozen canals. Since it’s unusual today for snow to drift as high
as it is in the paintings and for the canals to freeze over so that
skaters can skate across them as they are in the paintings,
these paintings appear to serve as proxies that demonstrate
that the weather when the paintings were created in the
seventeenth century was much colder than it is today.

The Question:
How does the information in the listening passage add to the information in the reading passage?

my Answer:

In this set of materials, the reading passage gives information about the process of hind-casting. While on the other hand, the listening passage adds to this by exemplifying the process from the 17th century.

In the reading passage, the author defines hindcasting as a method used by meteorologists to determine what the weather was like in the past. Meteorologists use different kinds of information for hindcasting due to the fact that weather records were kept for less than a century. According to the passage, these kinds of information known as ‘proxies’ are mainly related to the past such as archeology, botany, geology, literature, and art.

In the listening passage, the speaker provides an example of a situation where hindcasting was used. This situation involves proxies from the field of arts in which old paintings from the 17th century were used to know how the weather was like in Holland back then. These old paintings show landscapes with big snow drifts and ice skaters skating on frozen canals. By comparing what appears on these old paintings with what Holland is like now, it is believed that the weather back in the 17th century is much colder than it is today.

I recorded my voice while I'm reading it out loudly. If you have any comments on my pronunciation, please don't hesitate to tell me.

Thanks in advance :)

TOEFL listening lectures: A lecture by a professor of Fine Arts

[Kitosdad]

The Reading passage:
It is common knowledge that forecasting is an attempt by
meteorologists to determine what the weather will be like in the future.
Hind-casting is the opposite of forecasting, an attempt to determine
what weather was like in the past. Meteorologists wish that records
of weather had been kept in full for at least a few millennia, but it
has been only in the last century that detailed records of the weather
have been kept. Thus, meteorologists need to hind-cast the weather,
and they do so by using all sorts of information from other fields, such as
diverse as archaeology, botany, geology, literature, and art. These pieces
of information from other fields are used as a basis for drawing
conclusions about what the weather must have been like at some point
in the past are called proxies.
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That was quite informative MoeAzis. Not really an essay, but acceptable.

Kitos. 8.5/10
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[MoeAziz]

No Mr. Kitos i think you misunderstood. This is supposed to be an integrated writing, that was the reading passage!

this is what I wrote:

In this set of materials, the reading passage gives information about the process of hind-casting. While on the other hand, the listening passage adds to this by exemplifying the process from the 17th century.

In the reading passage, the author defines hindcasting as a method used by meteorologists to determine what the weather was like in the past. Meteorologists use different kinds of information for hindcasting due to the fact that weather records were kept for less than a century. According to the passage, these kinds of information known as ‘proxies’ are mainly related to the past such as archeology, botany, geology, literature, and art.

In the listening passage, the speaker provides an example of a situation where hindcasting was used. This situation involves proxies from the field of arts in which old paintings from the 17th century were used to know how the weather was like in Holland back then. These old paintings show landscapes with big snow drifts and ice skaters skating on frozen canals. By comparing what appears on these old paintings with what Holland is like now, it is believed that the weather back in the 17th century is much colder than it is today.

and I recorded my voice while I'm reading it out loudly. If you have any comments on my pronunciation, please don't hesitate to tell me. It's up there in the first post!

[Kitosdad]

In this set of materials, the reading passage gives information about the process of hind-casting. On the other hand, the listening passage adds to this by exemplifying the process from the 17th century.

In the reading passage, the author defines hindcasting as a method used by meteorologists to determine what the weather was like in the past. Meteorologists use different kinds of information for hindcasting due to the fact that weather records were kept for less than a century. According to the passage, these kinds of information known as ‘proxies’ are mainly related to the past such as archaeology, botany, geology, literature, and art.

In the listening passage, the speaker provides an example of a situation where hindcasting was used. This situation involves proxies from the field of arts in which old paintings from the 17th century were used toiSUGGEST WHAT the weather was like in Holland back then. These old paintings show landscapes with big snow drifts and ice skaters skating on frozen canals. By comparing what appears on these old paintings with what Holland is like now, it is believed that the weather back in the 17th century WAS much colder than it is today.
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Well,your speaking voice is fine, but you tend to hurry through the work too quickly. Reading as you spoke was OK, but if I were to listen to you without the text, then I think I would stop you after the first sentence and tell you to slow down.

Your writing is very good. Sorry for the confusion.

Kitos. 9/10
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