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Toefl Listening Tips

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Dhika Primayuda (21112998)

Universitas Gunadarma

TOEFL LISTENING TIPS

You must take active notes focusing on subjects, verbs, and objects.
Listen to a sentence's subject, verb, and object and takes notes on that. Don't simply
take notes on what you hear. Listen actively for these grammatical powerhouses of
meaning. This requires a strong shift for most students. We'll teach you how to make
that shift in this chapter.

TOEFL LISTENING OVERVIEW

Whether youre familiar with the exam or not. The following will explain every detail
of the listening section and how to attack it.
When you finish the reading section, the listening section will follow. The
instructions will appear on the screen for the section and they will be read out loud to
you. Take this time to prepare yourself and make sure that you have a full set of 3
clean sheets of note-paper and your pencil is sharp and ready to write. If you dont
have any of these things, raise your hand and ask the proctor (the individual giving
the exam) to provide you with whatever you are missing so that youre fully prepared.

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!
Practice note taking whenever you are listening to something in English only write
down key words or phrases, use abbreviations for long words and always write in English.
Record only the major points you will not have time to write down the minor, unimportant
details in the exam.
Improve your vocabulary the more words you know, the easier it will be for you to
understand the listening section. Learn new vocab and save words you have trouble with by
becoming an English, baby! Super member.
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
for repetition, synonyms and pronouns.
Download listening practice lessons, such as lessons on Daily English Audio and stop it
at different times. Try to guess what will happen next! This is a great way to practice your
ability to connect and combine ideas. Then go back and listen to the lesson in full and see
how well you did.
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? Expressing an idea? Practice
this technique every time you hear English including English movies or TV shows, daily
English lessons on English, baby!, 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 theTOEFL listening exam questions.

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!
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.
Pay attention when someone in the exercise asks a question often it is a clue that
information is about to be given. However, this is not always true so be careful for responses
that sound a lot like the answer to a question. Listen very carefully as these responses are
often there to test your ability to understand the context of what you heard.
Categorize the type of exercise you are listening to when taking
practice TOEFLlistening tests. Ask yourself is it a lecture (mostly one-sided and on
academic topics) or a conversation (language is more informal, two or more people)? This
will help you understand the flow of the conversation more clearly.

TOEFL LISTENING SETS

You will go through the listening section in sets of 3. Each set contains the following:
1 conversation: 3-5 minutes between a man and a woman
1 lecture: 4-6 minutes of a professor delivering a speech by him- or herself
1 discussion lecture: 4-6 minutes of a professor interacting with students
You will have the following number of questions for each listening:
1 conversation: 5 questions
1 lecture: 6 questions
1 discussion lecture: 6 questions
Thats a total of 17. You will have 10 minutes to complete these 17 questions.

TOEFL LISTENING TIMING

This is a little tricky to explain, so pay careful attention and it will be easy. First, after
the conversation or lecture finishes, you will have one question appear on the screen.
The question will be read out loud to you. When the narrator finishes saying the
question, the timer will start. This will occur throughout each set of listenings.
The timer will only count down in the silence that follows the narrator reading the
question. Of all the sections, this is the only one where students dont need much help
with timing: 10 minutes is actually enough. Still, heres a general breakdown for how
much time you should spend on each listening. Each question should take you about
35 seconds to answer.
10 min. - 7 min.: answer 1 - 5 of the conversation (3 min)

7 min. - 3:30 min.: answer 6 - 11 of the lecture (3 min 30 sec)

3:30 min. - 0 min.: answer 12 - 17 of the discussion lecture (3 min 30 sec)
Be aware that sometimes the order of the listenings will change in a set, so you might
hear the discussion lecture first. However, this doesnt happen often. You should also
memorize the total time for each listening, which is in parentheses ().
When one set finishes, the other will begin shortly. Again, each set will contain
exactly 3 listenings: a conversation, lecture, and discussion lecture. You will always
complete a total of 2 scored sets. Sometimes though, you will get an experimental set.
Thats right. Youll have another 3 listenings to do.
The final experimental set will not be graded and though most students (including
myself) have found that the last set is the experimental one, dont risk it. Do your best
throughout and know that 90% of students will have an experimental set in either the
reading, the listening, or both sections.
As a side note, when the test first came out, I noticed that it was really random.
Sometimes I would get no experimental sets and sometimes I would find an
experimental set in both the listening and the reading. Now, I find that just about all
students get an experimental set, but only one. Send us an email if you get none or
both to help us stay up-to-date.

REFERENSI

https://www.notefull.com/content.php?pgID=291
https://www.wikipedia.com