TOEFL listening skills

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

• 6
• 10
• 8
• 4

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

What will you listen to?

• Academic listening and street conversations
• Campus conversations and Non-academic listening
• Campus Conversations and
  Academic listening 

Tags

CCSS.RF.K.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3B

CCSS.RF.K.3C

CCSS.RF.K.3D

CCSS.RF.K.4

What is NOT a key principle?

• Concentration
• Focus all the time
• Take notes from the beginning to the end
• Listen to the passage 2 times

Tags

CCSS.RF.K.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3B

CCSS.RF.K.3C

CCSS.RF.K.3D

CCSS.RF.K.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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

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

Tags

CCSS.RF.K.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3B

CCSS.RF.K.3C

CCSS.RF.K.3D

CCSS.RF.K.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.9

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RL.1.5

CCSS.RL.4.5