TOEFL Listening Skills

How many types of questions are there in the listening test?

• 6

• 10

• 8

• 4

How can you organize your notes when listening?

• Draw a T-chart

• Draw a C-chart

• Draw an L-chart

• Do not take notes

What is NOT a strategy for "Understand the Gist" questions?

• Check the title of the conversation and the picture

• Listen carefully to the beginning of the passage 

• Adjust your initial idea as you keep listening

• Take notes ONLY at the beginning

What is the main strategy for "Understand details" questions?

• Click on TWO answers

• Listen carefully to the passage as a WHOLE but take notes ON THE DETAILS. 

• STOP if you don't know the spelling of a word

What is the 3rd type of listening question?

• Understand the audio

• Understand the speaker

• Understand the function

• Understand the conversation

A very important strategy for "Understand the purpose" questions is...

•  Pay attention to exaggerated phrases or speakers’ change of intonation. 

• Pay attention to the pronunciation of words.

• Pay attention to When, where and whose

What will you listen to?

• Academic listening and street conversations

• Campus conversations and Non-academic listening

• Campus Conversations and
  Academic listening 

Listen to the audio number 2

• She would prefer a sunny day.

• The park is too crowded.

• She would like a place that is not so loud.

• She cannot walk because she's too old.

Listen to the audio number 4

• The department is not changing the requirements.

• He hasn't heard anything about the change.

• The changes are believable.

• What has happened is incredible to him.

Listen to the audio number 5

• The wait has taken close to an hour.

• They were stranded in their car.

• Most of the people have been in line for hours.

• They made a line in the sand.