TOEFL: LISTENING

IBT TOEFL LISTENING TEST

The listening section measures your ability to understand spoken English in academic settings.

The listening test consists of six parts and contains 34 questions. There will be 5 or 6 questions on each part of the listening test. You will hear two conversations, two lectures, and two discussions on academic topics.

You will hear a variety of questions types, including: main ideas, details, summarizing, inferences, implications, functions, and idioms.

You should take notes on paper during each part of the listening test.

You should allow yourself 45 minutes to complete all six parts of the listening test. This includes the time to listen to the six parts, as well as to answer all 34 questions.

You may use the "NEXT" and "BACK" buttons to return to questions within each of the six parts of the test. You may skip a question and return to it. However, once you have selected an answer, it cannot be changed.

1. TOEFL LISTENING QUESTION TYPES

There are 8 different TYPES OF QUESTIONS

1. Detail question

The question asks why a minor detail is mentioned in the talk.

Example:

Question: Why does the professor mention that coral reefs support more than 4,000 species of fish?

a) To find out what students know about tropical fish

b) To contrast two types of ocean environments

c) To imply that there may be species in the Southern Ocean that have not been discovered yet

d) To imply that there may be fossil evidence of coral reefs in the Southern Ocean.

2. Inference question

An Inference question requires you to understand an indirect meaning of a sentence stated in a lecture.

Example:

Question: What does the professor imply about the experience of mimicking the migration of the zooplankton?

a) The tides of a large body of water like an ocean certainly impact the migration of the zooplankton

b) It was difficult to see any movement created by the organisms in the tank, and therefore it is assumed that there would be little movement created in an ocean by similar organisms

c) If eddies formed in a small tank with a much smaller number of organisms, then it is highly likely that the same would be true in an ocean with billions of organisms.

d) There is not much validity about the experiment conducted in the lab so the results are flawed.

3. Attitude question

The attitude question asks about the intention and attitude of the speaker when he/she talks about a specific detail.

Example:

Question: What is the student's attitude toward the Jazz group?

a) She fears they haven't practiced enough

b) She feels they might have deceived her

c) She wants them to work together on a project

d) She likes how they resolved their acoustical and sound issue

4. Function question.

The function question asks you why the speaker says what he says.

Example:

Listen again to part of the lecture. Then, answer the following question.

Question: Why does the professor say this?

a) To suggest that the citizens of the United States haven't changed much over time.

b) To motivate the students to learn more about this particular time period.

c) To point out why Emerson's essay has lost some of its relevance.

d) To provide background for the concept she is explaining.

5. Gist-content question

The gist of something is the main point or key idea.

Gist-content questions ask you to identify the main topic or idea of the listening conversation or lecture.

Example:

Question: What are the main things about the Nightcap Oak that the professor discusses? Select two answers.

a) Factors about the size of the area where it grows.

b) Its population over the last few hundred years.

c) What can be done to ensure its survival.

d) Why it hasn’t changed much over the last one hundred million years

6. Gist-purpose question

Gist-purpose questions ask you to identify what the main purpose of the conversation or lecture is.

Example:

Question: Why did the student go to see the librarian?

a) In order to sign up for a seminar about using electronic sources for research

b) To inform her that a journal is missing from the reference area

c) To inquire about how to check out journal articles

d) To get help looking for resources for a class paper.

7. Connecting-content question

Connecting content questions ask you to show understanding of the relationships among ideas in a lecture and may require you to fill in a chart or table.

Example:

Question: Indicate whether each of the following activities describes a displacement activity by checking “yes” or “no”.

Activity	Yes	No
Instead of attacking the enemy, an animal attacks another object.
During its mating ritual, an animal suddenly leaves or flies away
When a predator confronts it, an animal falls asleep instead of eating its food
After preening itself, an animal drinks water.

8. Organization question

Organization questions ask you to understand how the details and information are organized in the talk or lecture.

Example:

Question: How does the professor organize his lecture on blue jeans?

a) In a sequence to explain the various methods of producing this faded and worn look of jeans

b) Through introducing an abstract category like the idea of stone-washing to a specific example of how this is done

c) By creating a question and answer format to involve the students in the topic of blue jeans

d) With explaining the development of different kinds of pants and their impact on the popularity of blue jeans today

2. TOEFL iBT LISTENING PRACTICE

Practice here.
https://www.bestmytest.com/toefl/listening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6CDl9nwfo

https://demo.toeflibtcourse.com/toefl_l11s.htm

LISTEN TO ENRICH YOUR VOCABULARY

https://eduteach.es/videos/study-english/series-1/1-02-vitamin-d.html

A) iBT TOEFL FULL LISTENING TEST PRACTICE

Objective:

Be familiar with the actual listening test; realize how it works.

Test 1

Full listening test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6CDl9nwfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-iShL83BAs

Short conversations/lectures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v-G0ERWAds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpDXxGVSZhg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtVYovP-Btg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBSuWzW4Df0

B) LISTENING TO LECTURES PRACTICE

Now that you know what the Listening Test implies, here are several authentic listening materials which can be of great help to improve your advanced listening comprehension skills.

LECTURES

Lecture 1

https://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/toefl_listening.htm

Lecture 2

https://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/TOEFL_listening_lecture2.htm

Lecture 3

https://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/TOEFL_lecture3.htm

Lecture 4

https://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/TOEFL_lecture4.htm

Lecture 5

https://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/TOEFL_lecture5.htm

CONVERSATIONS

Conversation 1

https://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/TOEFL_listening_conversation1.htm

Conversation 2

https://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/TOEFL_listening_conversation2.htm

Conversation 3

https://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/TOEFL_listening_conversation3.htm

Conversation 4

Student test score and study method (click on “see more” for questions)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTGimQ90RNQ

Conversation 5

A job interview (click on “see more” for questions)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXAB_K8JPQw

Conversation 6

Prospective student and an admissions counselor (click on “see more” for questions)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyf-7af--SI

Conversation 7

American football (click on “see more” for questions)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f_JYCzArn8

Conversation 8

Conversation in the campus book store (click on “see more” for questions)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMPw5c0QUc4

Conversation 9
Three Conversations (click on “see more” for questions)

a) a student and a professor

b) a student and a registration clerk

c) a student and a professor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAIidDoe3Xk

Conversation 10
A student and a professor (cheating) (click on “see more” for questions)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoXUBuuZXF8&feature=related

Conversation 11
Siblings weekend (click on “see more” for questions)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Wq6NjcSyg&feature=related

MORE LECTURES

Lecture 6

ANTHRPOLOGY CLASS

(click on SEE More to see answers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyi1bNnvbCY

Lecture 7

CRIMINOLOGY CLASS