Listening Tips For The Toefl Itp
Listening Tips For The Toefl Itp
Listening Tips For The Toefl Itp
TOEFL ITP
Take past TOEFL listening
tests and become familiar
with the format.
• Quickly read the comprehension questions
before the recording begins - this helps you
to listen out for key points – often there is a
lot of content that you will not be tested on
– keep your focus and energy for the points
that count!
• https://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/TOEFL_IT
P/html/Section%201,%20TOEFL%20ITP,%
20Listening%20Comprehension.html
Improve your vocabulary.
• The more words you know, the easier it will be
for you to understand the listening section. Learn
new vocabulary and save words you have trouble
with!
• http://freerice.com/#/
english-vocabulary/1483
Listen for signal words.
• Listen for signal words that indicate major
steps, changes or ideas such as seldom, at the
moment, in 1975, so far, usually, often, up to
now, at the moment. Make sure to also listen out
for repetition, synonyms and pronouns.
• http://
a4esl.org/q/h/9901/gc-connectives.html
Determine the purpose of a
conversation or speech.
• What do you think the speakers are trying to do?
Are they angry? Trying to resolve a conflict? Sad?
Express an idea? Practice this technique every
time you hear English including English movies or
TV shows, even people you hear speaking English
on the street! This will help you focus on the key
points and improve your ability to filter out
information that is not necessary for the TOEFL
listening exam questions.
• http://www.esl-lab.com/
Recognize key points.
• Who or what is the conversation about? What is
the main point of the lecture? Why are they
talking about this? Remember, the TOEFL
listening exam is testing your comprehension,
not your ability to memorize and repeat what
you have just heard!
• http://
www.esl-lab.com/phone/phonerd1.htm
Find connections between
ideas.
• How do these points connect to the key ideas of
the passage? If they do NOT connect to the key
ideas, they are probably not the major ideas of
the passage and you should not focus on them.
• http://
www.esl-lab.com/collegemajor/collegemajorrd1.
htm
Structure and
Written Expression
tips for the TOEFL
ITP
SKILL 2: Objects of prepositions
SKILL 1: Subjects and verbs
• To Mike _______ was a
• _____ was ringing big surprise.
continuously for hours. • (A) really
• (A) Loudly • (B) the party
• (B) In the morning • (C) funny
• (C) The phone • (D) when
• (D) The bells
A preposition is followed by a noun
A sentence in English or pronoun that is called an object of
should have a subject and a the preposition. If a word is an object
verb. A subject is missing, of the preposition, it is NOT the
so the correct answer is (C). subject. Then, the correct answer is
(B), which is a subject.
SKILL 3: Present participles SKILL 4: Past participles
• The film _____ appearing • The bread ____ baked this
at the local theater is my morning smelled delicious.
favorite. • (A) has (B) was
• (A) now (B) is • (C) it (D) just
• (C) it (D) was
The correct answer is (D) since it
A present participle is the –ing is an adjective past participle. A
form of the verb. The present past participle often ends in –
participle can be (1) part of ed, but there are also many
the verb or (2) an adjective. It irregular past participles. For
is 1 when accompanied by many verbs, including –ed
some form of the verb be and verbs, the simple past and the
2 when not. The correct past participle are the same and
answer is (A) since it is 2. can be easily confused.
SKILL 6: Adverb clause
SKILL 5: Coordinate connectors
connectors
ANSWERS: A – C – A
SKILLS AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS
• Parallel structure with coordinate conjunctions
• Ballpoint pens are (A) less versatile but (B) more population (C) than
fountain pens (D).
• Parallel structure with paired conjunctions
• Paleographers study (A) ancient and medieval (B) handwriting in order
to establish (C) not only its age and (D) also its background.
• Past participle after have
• Fish (A) farming (B) has rose (C) in the United States in recent (D) years.
ANSWERS: C – D – C
SKILLS AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS
• Present participles or past participles after be
• Lassie, the famous collie who made (A) her first screen (B) appearance
in 1943, has always be (C) played (D) by a male dog.
• Base form verbs after modals
• A blue bigwig lizard stakes (A) out a territory (B) and will defending (C)
females within it against courting (D) males.
• Singular and plural nouns
• The leaves of the common (A) sunflower are (B) rough (C) to the touch
on both side(D).
ANSWERS: C – C – D
SKILLS AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS
• Countable and uncountable nouns
• The red cardinal spends (A) many (B) of its (C) time feeding (D) on the
ground.
• Subject and object pronouns
• Animals like frogs have (A) waterproof skin that (B) prevents they (C) from
drying out quickly in air, sun, or wind (D).
• Possessives
• Some (A) scallops can open and close theirs (B) valves and swim away
rapidly when they (C) are disturbed (D).
ANSWERS: B – C – B
SKILLS AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS
• Pronoun reference
• John D. Rockefeller was the founder (A) of the Standard Oil Company,
and he (B) was the richest man in the world at the time (C) of her (D)
retirement.
• Adjectives and adverbs
• Sounds quieter (A) than 10 decibels are impossibly (B) for the human (C)
ear to hear (D).
• Adjectives after linking verbs
• The planet (A) Mercury has (B) a moderately (C) elliptically (D) orbit.
ANSWERS: D –B – D
Reading
Comprehension tips
for the TOEFL ITP
Source: https://
www.ets.org/toefl_itp/content/sample_q
uestions/section3_reading_comprehensio
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QUESTION 1
QUESTION 2