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Toefl Listening Comprehension

The document discusses strategies for improving TOEFL listening comprehension scores. It identifies that the main difficulty for many test takers is in the listening comprehension section, due to English being treated as a foreign language in Indonesia. It provides tips for different types of listening questions, including focusing on restatements, implied meanings, suggestions, and understanding idioms. Examples of short dialogues and strategies for answering questions are provided. Long dialogues require understanding main ideas and details like names and places. Long talks discuss broad topics, so comprehension of themes is important. Satellite tracking is introduced as a new method used by scientists to follow animals in the wild.

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Toefl Listening Comprehension

The document discusses strategies for improving TOEFL listening comprehension scores. It identifies that the main difficulty for many test takers is in the listening comprehension section, due to English being treated as a foreign language in Indonesia. It provides tips for different types of listening questions, including focusing on restatements, implied meanings, suggestions, and understanding idioms. Examples of short dialogues and strategies for answering questions are provided. Long dialogues require understanding main ideas and details like names and places. Long talks discuss broad topics, so comprehension of themes is important. Satellite tracking is introduced as a new method used by scientists to follow animals in the wild.

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TOEFL LISTENING

COMPREHENSION
The difficulty of english in TOEFL is level advance, so
if somebody has not reached that level , it will be
difficult to get toefl score more than 550
In many cases, the main difficulty of toefl place in
LISTENING COMPREHENSION. This is caused by
Indonesian treats an english as foreign languange,
that’s why the english as foreign languange is very
seldom to used in daily life.

TOEFL
Things that influence listening score
Audio quality
Speech of delivery
Words undertsanding
Idiomatics expression and multipart verb
Topics understanding
Listening Test
1. Short Dialogues
( One trick is focused on the sinonim of the sentence)
 Restatements
 Negative state with positive respons and the contrary.
 Suggestions
 Active and passive sentences
 Identification of who and where
 Agreement
 Idiomatic expressions and multipart verbs
Listening Test… (cont)
2. Long Dialogues
(Is is an conversation between two persons that more
than 5 sentences. The tricks is focused on main idea
and detail things such name, place, year)

3. Long Talks
(It is a talk by one person,The texts is formed
deskriptive or narative. Ussually ,texts has theme of
geographics, biology, history, medical,etc)
Short Dialogue Example
Restatement

Question:
Woman : You have been wrking at the computer for hours
Man : Yes,and I need to take a break
Narrator : What does the man mean?

Answer:
A.The Computer’s broken
B. He must relax for a while
C. He should keep working
D. He’s broke

The correct answer is c. He should relax for a while,


Restatement of take a break is relax for a while
cont…
Negative state with positive respons

Question:
Man : I can’t stand this weather
Woman : We haven’t seen as much snow as this for years!
Narrator : What does the woman mean?

Answer:
A. It has rarely snowed this much
B. It hardly snowed this year
C. It snows so much every year
D. It is barely snowing this year

the correct answer is (A). The statement We haven’t seen as much snow as
years! Means It has rarely snowed this much. Notice that option A is the
restatment of what the second speaker’s line.
cont…
Positive state with negative respons

Question:

Woman : Why didn’t you finish your homework last night? So you
can give it today.
Man : I thought so. But ,I was sleepy.
Narrator: What does the man mean?

Answer:
A. He though the time to give the homework is still available
B. He wasn’t awake enough last night
C. He was sleepy but he still managed to do his homework.
D. He didn’t have to finish his homework right away.

The correct answer is B.


cont…
Suggestions

Question:
Woman : I never have enough spending money.
Man : Why not get a part-time job?
Narrator : What does the man suggest?

Answer:
A. Spending less money.
B. Doing a better job at work.
C.Earning some money.
D.Spending less time at her job.

The correct answer is C.


cont…
Active and passive sentence
Question:
Woman: What happened to your notebook?
Man: I left in the cafetaria.
Narrator : What does the woman imply?

Answer:
A. The cafetaria is to the left.
B. She left a note on the cafetaria door.
C. She took some notes in the cafetaria.
D. The notebook was left in the cafetaria.

The correct answer D.


cont…
 Identification of who
Question:
Woman : I need to get this prescription filled.
Man : if you’ll take a seat, I’ll have your medicine ready for you in a
moment.
Narrator : Who is the woman most likely to be?

Answer:
A. A pharmacist
B. A baby -sitter
C. A flight attendant
D. A doctor

The correct answer is A.


cont…
Identification of where
Question
Woman : I’d like to open an account ,please?
Man : What type of account would you like , a
checking or shaving account?
Narrator : Where does this conversation probably take place?

Answer:
A. In an accounting class.
B. In a bank.
C. At a service.
D. In a moment

The correct answer is B.


cont…
 Agreement
Question:
Woman: : This homework is going to take forever.
Man: I’ll say!
Narrator: What does the man mean?

Answer:
A. It’s going to take forever to take forever.
B. It’s takes a long time to get from home to work.
C. He and the woman have the same opinion about the homework.
D. He needs to take the homework to class.

The correct answer is C.


cont…
 Idiomatic Expression
Question:
Woman : I’m not sure it is easy to run the project we have planned without
having lots of money.
Man : You can count on Sue. She has a knack to donate their time and money.
Narrator : What does the man think of Sue?
Answer:
A. She always eat snack in her free time.
B. She is good at convincing people to help.
C.Sue gets snack for people who don’t have the time to wait.
D.Sue cashes checks for people who have time to wait.

The correct answers B.


cont…
 Multipart Verbs
Question
Woman: Have you done your final paper project?
Man: Actually, I have. But, I still need to look it over before I give it to the lecturer.
Narrator:What does the man mean?

Answer
A. He hasn’t finished the project yet.
B.The project has been given to the teacher.
C.The project has been perfect, but it hasn’t been given to the lecturer.
D.The project still needs revision before it is given to the teacher

The correct answer is D.


Long Conversation

“The tricks, read the answer


choise in a flash before hear the
dialogues“
Long Dialogues
Example:
3. a.He doesn’t know how to ski.
1. a. at one o’clock b.He doesn’t know where the
meeting is.
b.at two o’clock c.He doesn’t know what time
c. at three o’clock the meeting starts.
d.at four o’clock d.He is afraid of skiing.

4. a.Leave on a skiing trip.


2. a.ski b.Go with the woman to the
b.read books on skiing meeting.
c.Try on some skis.
c.buy skiing equipment
d.Give a lecture to the ski club.
d.plan ski trips
The next trick is you should concentrate in hearing the
long dialogues especially for the detail information that
relates with the answer choice.
Woman: Hi, Jack.
Man: Hi, Wanda . Where are you rushing to?
Woman: I’m heading for a meeting of the ski club. It start at three o’clock.
Man:The ski club?
Woman: Yes, the ski club. Do you want to come along ?
Man: What does the ski club do?
Woman: Well, you get to know other people who enjoy skiing, listen to lectures
and presentation on skiing techniques and equipment, and best of all plan
skiing trips. Doesn’t that sound good?
Man: It does sound great, but I don’t exactly know how to ski very well.
Woman:That doesn’t matter. You don’t have to know how to ski. You just have to
want to learn how to ski.
Man: That sounds like my kind of club. I guess I’ll come along with you and try it.
Woman:We’ve got to hurry. It’s almost three o’clock.
Long Talks
The first, the narrator reads a long talk, example:
“When scientists are studying animals in the wild, they often
want to follow the animals movements. One way that scientist
have often tracked wild animals in the past has been with radio
transmitters. A radio collar could be attached to an animal and
the animal could be tracked on a radio receiver. The major
problem has been happened that radio signals were not very
relieble.They could come and go as animals travelled too far.
Now scientist are using a new way to track animals in the
wild .This new way of tracking animals uses satellites.
Transmitters are attached to animals in the wild , and the
transmitter send signals into the atmosphere every few hours.
Weather satellites circling the earth receive the signals from
the animals, and scientist get the information from the
satellites.”
If your listening comprehension still in the elementary level or
intermediate, it will be difficult for you to understand the long talk.
1.What is the topics of the talks? 3.What is the new way of
a. Studying animals in the wild. following animals?
b.Animals song on the radio. a.With radio collars.
c.Problems with radio signal. b.With atmsphere pressure.
d.Weather satellites c.With radio receivers.
d.With satellites.
2.How did scientist follow
animals in the past? 4.What is the new way of
a.By using radio transmitter. following animals?
b.By following their tracks. a.Geography.
c.With weather ballons. b.Botany.
d.With satellites. c.Zoology.
d.Comunication
END

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