TOEFL Listening Question Types and Strategies - Part 1

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TOEFL Listening Question Types and Strategies - Part 1

I explain two question types that can appear in TOEFL Listening and I show you strategies on how to solve them. We have a look at detail questions and main idea questions. I tell you tips and tricks how you can solve these question types and improve your TOEFL Listening score quickly and considerably. I also tell you when you have to pay attention so that you do not fall into traps.

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FYI
The examples I use in the video are made up by me.

1) Detail Questions
Detail questions ask you about key facts in the listening. You can recognise them because they usually contain the words “What, why how,….”. For example, detail questions can look like this:
According to the professor, why is this theory problematic?
What does the student think about the professor's idea?

Strategy: Listen for the Right Things
In TOEFL Listening detail questions ask you about a very specific key fact in the listening. The problem is that you will listen to a lot of details. Some of these details are important and some are not. You have to filter out the important information.

Fortunately, there is a trick you can use: You must know how detail questions look before taking the TOEFL. If you know them, you can focus on the right information and take notes. Thus, when you are doing the TOEFL Listening section listen actively for explanations, reasons, and so on because this is the information you need to answer detail questions in TOEFL Listening correctly.

2) Main Idea Questions
Main idea questions ask you about the main idea of the listening. For example, main idea questions can look like this:
What do the professor and the student mainly talk about?
What is the lecture mainly about?

Strategy: Get the Big Picture
To solve main idea questions you have to get the big picture. It works like this: Listen to the conversation/lecture until the end. Only when you have heard the whole conversation/lecture can you decide what the main idea is.

In a conversation the student and the professor will talk about a main point and one or several side points. The side points are there to confuse you. ETS wants to check whether you understand what the main idea of the conversation is.

In the lecture the professor will talk about a specific topic. Do not think that the topic the professor mentions at the beginning of the lecture is automatically the main idea. For example, it may be that the professor introduces different theories, that he gives reasons why a theory may be valid and so on. At the end of the lecture you have to look back and decide what he was mainly talking about. Ask yourself: What did the professor spend the most time on?

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 TOEFL Listening Question Types and Strategies - Part 1
00:34 - 1) Detail Questions
01:06 - Strategy: Listen for the Right Things
02:20 - Example for conversations
03:15 - 2) Main Idea Questions
03:37 - Strategy: Get the Big Picture
03:49 - Conversations
04:54 - Example for conversations
06:28 - Lectures
07:55 - Example for lectures

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