Suitable materials for practicing intensive listening include: handouts in Part C and the new TOEFL test. The lecture of the new TOEFL iBT is very long, and you can practice dictation several times. If you plan to take the exam in a month or two, be sure to remember that all exercises should be directly related to the exam you want to take.
Step 1: Listen to the full text all the time.
Since it's called listening all the time, don't dwell on the details of the article. Always listen and do only two things: first, be clear about the theme and probably know what the paragraph is about. The second is search logic. What are the logics of English articles? As long as we can simply judge whether this article was written in chronological order or according to spatial order; Whether it is the explanation of the phenomenon or the comparison of the two viewpoints. Therefore, when listening for the first time, paying attention to the words that connect the preceding with the following can help us quickly grasp the logical relationship of the article.
For example, if you listen to a passage and hear it in the past, your prediction should be that it may be mentioned later now or in the future. When you hear "some people think", your reflection should be to talk about "others or I think" next. In the past, people were not sensitive to such words that could express the logical relationship or order of your article. I always get into details when I dictate for the first time.
Step 2: Listen to every sentence.
When listening to each sentence carefully, I have seen some students listening with repeaters. After a sentence is finished, he will repeat it and let the machine read it over and over again. He will dictate word by word slowly. This kind of dictation is inefficient or even invalid. In other words, you have made 80% efforts, but it may only bring 20% results. Some students practice this way: listen to a sentence, hear two words, immediately press stop, write down these two words, then listen to three words and write down these three words. A sentence was divided into many parts by him, and he heard it in pieces. What I'm talking about here is listening carefully to every sentence, mainly emphasizing the concept of the sentence, sentence by sentence, not dictation word by word. However, the sentence here doesn't mean that you have to get a full stop to become a sentence. Refers to the semantic pause, including commas, semicolons, colons and so on. , are called semantic pause. You can press pause in a place like this.
Suggestion: listen to a sentence first, press pause when the semantic pause occurs, and write it down by memory. Some students may say, teacher, it doesn't matter if I can write three or five words in a dozen words, because what we are practicing here is not the ability to write down what we have heard completely, but the ability to remember and summarize. Remember here: listen to each sentence only once, and try your best to write or repeat what you hear. Write as much as you can. You can write three or five words at first, and you can write more if you keep practicing.
Step 3: Think again and again.
This step is the core key. "Repetition" is not an adverb to modify deep thought here. Repetition and pondering are verbs, which have both the meaning of repetition and the meaning of pondering. How many times is it appropriate to repeat? I met a very diligent classmate. If he doesn't understand a word, he swears that I won't eat until I listen to you! So I repeated it thirty or fifty times, and my eyes turned green, but I still couldn't understand it. This is another 80% effort spent on 20% inefficient things. It is most appropriate to repeat three or five times. If a sentence is repeated three or five times and you haven't heard it, there is no difference in the effect of listening to it ten times, eight times and three or five times. But repeating it once or twice is too little. Don't be in a hurry to know what you are saying, but build a sense of the whole sentence by repeating it three or five times.
A. after repeating it, the meaning of the sentence is completely understood. At this time, don't try to write this sentence word for word. Just write down the main meaning of this sentence by memory and summary. B. I repeated it several times and found that I understood most of the contents, but I didn't hear the individual words clearly. These words may be new to us, or they may be caused by pronunciation or sound changes that we haven't heard. What we need to do at this time is to record the report phonetic symbols. That is, use familiar phonetic symbols, Chinese characters or other phonetic symbols to record the sound you hear. This work is very important. There is always a classmate who says, "Teacher, I don't understand this sentence." . I will ask: Do you hear the sound? He said: I heard it. I said, "I heard something." He said, "Oh, I forgot."
Why can't we improve when we practice? Because we repeat it three or five times every time and read the original text directly. When I saw the original text, I suddenly realized, oh, it was such a sentence. At this time, when you put aside the original text and listen to the listening material again, you find that you understand everything. And this is not what you heard with your ears at all, not that your listening level has improved, but that you saw it with your eyes, remember. Just like I listen to Cantonese songs, I read the lyrics before listening. I think my Cantonese listening level is not bad, and I can understand them. But if you don't let me look at the lyrics and listen directly, I'm sure I'll be confused Over the years, many students have lived in this illusion. After listening to it several times, I thought my listening level had improved after reading the original text. Therefore, in order to change this situation, we must record the sound symbols during listening. The purpose of doing this is to establish a connection between what you hear in your ears and the actual content. Write down the sounds you hear with familiar symbols, even if you can only record the ups and downs of one tone or another. Sometimes success and failure are only on the line, just a little.
In the process of dictation, recording sound symbols is only a little step. If you don't record it, you will never know what sound the word and expression make in your ears. The same word acts on different people's ears, and the sound symbols are different. If you carefully record it once, the next time you hear the same or similar voice, your reaction speed and understanding ability will definitely accelerate. Why do you understand when you hear good morning? You don't need to reflect at all, but react immediately, which means good morning. Because we are already very familiar with the sound symbols of these two words. And many other words or phrases, we don't know, let alone what sound symbols seem familiar in our minds. We have never tried to understand what these words and phrases feel in our own ears.
C. after listening to it for three or five times, I found that I still couldn't understand the whole sentence. This situation is caused by many factors. There may be new words, sound changes, or unfamiliar sentence structures. In this case, everyone should do the work mentioned in A.B. and take this sentence as the focus of the next thinking summary. I pondered it for three or five times, opened the script and pondered it against the original and my own dictation notes. What are you thinking about? I didn't hear it here just now because I didn't know the word, or I thought there was a phonetic phenomenon, or because I was unfamiliar with the pronunciation of the word or phrase, and my response was slow. If you can train like this for 20 days to a month, your listening will be fine. As long as the vocabulary of all the materials is accumulated, there is no problem in listening to how many materials. These are the two tasks we talked about in the third step.
Step 4: End all paragraphs.
Summing up the full text is to hope that everyone can do two things when summing up. One is to listen to the original text again against the sound material you wrote. Look at the original text, read this article silently in your mind, and recall why you didn't hear it here just now. Found the problem, more importantly, take strategies to solve the problem. If I don't know because it's a word, I'll remember it twice more. If it is because of pronunciation, I will repeat it twice. If it is because the sentence pattern is unfamiliar, I will put this sentence forward and analyze it separately, and then recreate two sentences with this sentence pattern. In fact, if you insist on practicing these four steps every day for a short passage of about one minute, your listening level will definitely advance by leaps and bounds after one month.
There is a saying in the Jianghu that those who have hearing will take the TOEFL. It makes sense to savor carefully, because we all know that the TOEFL test is divided into four parts, three of which have listening tests. Once there is a problem with hearing, the consequences are unimaginable. Then, I will share with you how to improve TOEFL listening.
In my eyes, the most important problem that students encounter in listening is that they don't understand, which is a big and empty concept. After years of listening teaching, I found that the problems that students can't understand are composed of three aspects. They are: vocabulary, grammar and listening blind spots. Today I mainly share the first question with you.
Students' vocabulary has never been seen before, and I have always stressed that TOEFL listening is actually equivalent to intensive reading. We can read again and again, but we only have one chance to listen. Once there is a blind spot in understanding, it will lead to problems in full-text understanding. Then, in the process of listening comprehension, students often have such an experience. Some words do not pose a threat when they are read, but when they are listened to, the threat is really great, mainly because of the repetition of reading. If we have vocabulary problems, we can infer them from context and semantics, scrutinize them with root affixes, and even judge them with a sense of language. However, these skills do not exist in listening. Therefore, higher requirements are put forward for students' vocabulary. It is still a great challenge for students to reflect the meaning of vocabulary in an instant, because we have developed a fixed pattern of memorizing vocabulary since childhood, that is, we should pay attention to spelling and meaning. Therefore, many students will make many mistakes in listening and their vocabulary will be misunderstood-pronunciation and vocabulary don't match.
Here, I suggest that students can make good use of the textbook 2 1 day vocabulary. Personally, I think the vocabulary in it is high in the vocabulary books on the market. And the biggest feature of this book is that it is equipped with audio (video). Read English first. Then explain it in Chinese. The interval between English and Chinese is about 1 to 2 seconds. During this period, students need to reflect the meaning of words, which makes them feel like a competition with audio. In the long run, students' response speed to high-frequency vocabulary will be greatly improved. In the future, when listening to TOEFL articles, we will not pay all attention to the meaning of words, but more attention to the meaning of sentences, laying a solid foundation for the understanding of higher-level meaning groups.
2. Listen for the second time. Try to retell the general content.
How to practice TOEFL listening by using the materials around you
There are many ways to practice TOEFL listening in the market, but all of them require us to spend more time. Pony, today I want to teach you a simple and easy way to practice TOEFL listening by using the materials around you. The TOEFL topic comes from life, and the content highly restores the classroom situation and campus life. I hope it will be helpful for you to practice TOEFL listening by using the materials around you.
European and American campus movies
The theme of campus life also occupies a large part of TOEFL listening and speaking questions, especially the first few questions, how the performance directly affects the psychological state of candidates. Because it's all daily content, the content is nothing more than short at home, so there are no new words to say. At this time, the competition is the familiarity of candidates with listening materials.
Listening questions about campus life are all based on real high school life, from choosing dormitory, asking for directions on campus, learning to use the library, exchanging papers with teachers, and even discussing the new school policy with classmates. These may not be common in China's campus life, but they are all essential elements in studying and living abroad.
If you want to know the real campus life in Europe and America, then campus movies undoubtedly open a window for everyone. For example, school cheerleading training, campus radio news, charity fundraising, annual dance, and debating school policies with teachers. , can be found in rich youth movies. Well-known ones, such as The Princess Diary, Hot Mom and Spice Girl, legally blonde, etc. There is a feeling that students in China can see the girls we chased together in those years and the teenagers here, and everyone can see their own figure when reading, which shows the decrease of campus life.
Online course
Half of TOEFL listening is the restoration of classroom scenes. The teacher provides a new noun or picture and interacts with the students when explaining it. Although it is conducted in English, the whole model is actually no different from everyone's usual classroom. But where can we find such a teaching scene in English?
Free online open classes in major universities provide us with such an opportunity to reproduce the original classroom teaching scenes in Europe and America, whether it is the pronunciation words of teachers or the specific teaching content. Moreover, all the resources come from famous teachers and schools, covering mathematics, literature, engineering, biology, history, economy, environment, etc., which is a good opportunity for everyone to moisten their hobbies.
Because open classes are generally longer, it is more to help candidates get familiar with the atmosphere of English classes, the difficulty of words, the speed of speech, the accent and so on. In the teacher's class in advance, let them see the tricks in the TOEFL listening test room. I studied in Weibo for one year. Listening to the open class before departure is still in the stage of relying on subtitles, often missing a word, and the whole paragraph behind is very slow to understand; However, the experience of studying abroad for one year has really made me make great progress. You can easily understand it without opening subtitles, and TOEFL has full marks in listening. Domestic candidates can also have the same gains as me through open classes.
It should be emphasized that an open class is a class after all, and you need to take notes during class. This is exactly the same as TOEFL listening. You need to write down keywords from time to time, straighten out the order of classification and points, and make clear the causal relationship before and after. This is very different from TED's topic of understanding the general idea in a few minutes. Here, we have to ask a solution to listening for a long time. Therefore, in order to facilitate understanding, it is also good to listen to English subtitles, which also helps everyone to be familiar with proper nouns and recite them naturally after familiarity.
If your TOEFL listening accuracy can reach 40%, then I suggest you start with the standard speed VOA or the old TOEFL C part, and then go all the way down to TPO.
Toefl listening necessary practice materials
1. official guide to the new TOEFL ibt (official guide to the new TOEFL test, commonly known as official guide or OG).
Looking back at IBT, the most authoritative guide is the official guide issued by ETS. Although the title of this book is few and relatively basic, its guidance and authority are the biggest highlights of this book. The same is true of listening review. The idea and difficulty of the test questions are very close to the test. This book deserves repeated practice and research, and the most important thing is to understand its thinking.
2. The key to Delta's next-generation TOEFL test: IBT advanced skill practice (commonly known as Blue Delta).
This book is not difficult and belongs to the lower-middle level. Its advantage is rich in subject matter, which is suitable for us to start practicing after mastering the skills and direction of IBT exam. The disadvantage is that the listening materials of oral English are difficult to synthesize and the logic of the article is not well grasped, so it is difficult for us to grasp the main points when listening. But the topic is a little simpler than the real one, so this material is very suitable for reviewing the initial exercises and strengthening the questions.
3. Special listening training for the new TOEFL test (basic general selection)
This book analyzes and explains the skills of two dialogues and four lecture questions in the new TOEFL listening test. Provide a large number of simulation questions for candidates to practice. It is relatively simple, conforms to the learning characteristics and needs of domestic candidates, and is suitable for people who have just started preparing for the new TOEFL or have a poor foundation.
4. Voice of America, Exploration and National Geographic (Pan-listening)
A: VOA's original materials are authentic and fluent in spoken English, which can cultivate a sense of language and respond to TOEFL habits, just suitable for the new TOEFL listening test. You can also dictate the standard voice of America. VOA's Special English is more suitable for students who are not very strong. The standard Voa is a little more difficult.
B: Discovery and VOA Science Report have great overlap with the new TOEFL listening, which is very helpful to familiarize yourself with topics in various fields. The materials are academic and in-depth.
5. Part C of the old TOEFL listening (extensive reading)
This is the best listening and dictation material for the new TOEFL. Because the new trust is a continuation of the old trust, the old trust and the new trust are roughly the same in subject matter, vocabulary and difficulty. Of course, if students have a weak foundation, they can spend a month dictating the English and American versions of the second and third volumes of new concepts, and then dictating the lectures of the old teachers, so that the foundation is stronger and the effect is more obvious.
6. The key to Delta's next-generation TOEFL test: IBT's six mock exams (commonly known as Red Delta).
This book is used for the paper model exam. It is more difficult than the blue triangle, and the difficulty of ideas and topics is also very close to the real question. Generally speaking, it is good material for our sprint stage. The disadvantage is that it is slightly simple, mainly used to find confidence.
7. New TOEFL Listening 120(CBT)
This book has a good grasp of the ideas and contents of the exam, and it is a good book for us to strengthen our practice. There is also a model test software, which can be used for computer training in advance. However, the listening comprehension of this book is really not simple, and it is suitable for candidates with higher academic qualifications or a certain review basis.
8. Register for a free online exercise (actually TPO).
This exercise is also very important. You can listen to it before the exam and find out the feeling of the real question. The disadvantage is that there are not many topics.
9.TPO:
The most powerful online model test produced by ETS is the top priority. There is no doubt about the importance of the real question. Although the view that "it is useless to brush the real questions" has been heated up recently, ETS has not given up the release of TPO. Obviously, the only material ETS can provide to candidates is TPO, which is a real question that has been tested.
In addition to the general listening structure, we should be familiar with some common test sites, so as to weave a net with two lines and capture information points. Most detailed questions can be contained in our grid. For example, the topics of art like to test writers, evaluate writers, and represent works. And they all need to get into the habit of listening at ordinary times. Notes will eventually be taken on the topic, so you need to be familiar with the characteristics of the topic.