strategies how to answer properly toefl listening section

PART I

Here are strategies how to answer properly toefl listening section.

1. Usually the answer is often found in the second voice in a brief conversation. So the focus on the second ballot.
2. Usually the conversation at the beginning of the structure will be quite easy and difficult at the end of the session
3. Never empty answer. Even if you are not sure or do not understand the same time though, guess. For there is no reduction in value when you are wrong.
4. Use the remaining time when it has finished answering a question, to look at the answer options in the next question. So it could be easier for you to just focus on the conversation alone.
5. If you understand a little idea of ​​the conversation, select the answer that contains the statement as an idea that you know.
6. If you do not understand the conversation, choose a different answer from what you hear. Because usually it is a trap for to choose the wrong answer. Examples of such Apartement by appointment, or search by research and church.
7. If you know the exact words used but not found in the options there then look for synonyms of the word.
For about A - >> Dialogue Short
1. The briefing does not need to be heard
• Direct view options (the difference between about 8 seconds)
2. Do not choose the option that is similar to spoken dialogue
• it means resemblance more than 2 words
3. There is a choice of either automatic
• The options mean SIMILAR
• The options that means same (same core sentence)
• The options NEGATIVE meaning to education
• encountered a sentence that means DO NOT KNOW
• The options means the person NOT LIKE
• The options using RUDE WORD / NOT OFFICIAL (eg hungry, angry, bad, etc.)
• There is the word "HELP THE MAN"
4. Focus and listen Speaker BOTH predicate (verb), said after tobe
5. Answer toefl can not answer such a row of numbers 1-4: AAAA
For about the B and C -> Dialog long
1. Because the focus of four numbers at once ignore instructions
2. The initial question for sure "What is the essence of dialogue"
• Core dialog usually in the first 3 sentences
3. Select the option that is similar to the spoken

Do not be fooled match between what you hear the sound (audio) with roomates you read (booklet). Sometimes the right answer just a different sound (but it means the same).
Do not listen before reading. Read the first and CRUSH anticipatory response. Furthermore listen to confirm the answer. (Do not listen to the EMPTY HEAD!)
Form (sound) that differ among the four answer choices, Usually can be taken as a TEMPORARY ANSWER.
The words in the booklet are Usually used to mislead, as the words were tested, so you're stuck in the sound to match. Example, the word DOOR / Drawer, said WRITE / RIGHT, word did not / would not / should not
Beware of the words 'NEGATIVE' as absent (not present) on a matter, the word did not COME (not present) from the audio device, as well as with the sentence ACTIVE - PASSIVE.
In part B (Dialog TWO) is overlaid Narrator, focus on the SECOND PERSON. Feed only the first, third person (the narrator) just ask the purpose of the conversation.
In part C (Conversation, TWO or MORE), make anticipate questions with 5W and 1H (WHAT, WHEN, WHY, WHO, WHERE, and HOW).
Exploration of the key words of each alternative answer. Example, when writing AT A RESTAURANT, maybe you'll hear the word MENU, ORDER, FOOD, BEVERAGE, SPOON, WAITER, and so forth.

PARTT II

Tips and Trick TOEFL Structure Answering Questions
1. The sentence consists of only one subject and one predicate
• Characteristics noun: the, a, an,-ion,-ment,-ty,-ness, and usually located between the ... of ...
• Example: Of all the cereals, rice is the one - food for more people than any of the other grain crops.
• a. It provides b.That providing c. Provides d. That provides (Answer)
2. Subject and Verb Agreement
• Is -> Single
• Are -> plural
• Single Subject -> V + s / es
• Single Subject -> has
• Subject Plural -> have
3. Parallelism
• Formula: words, words (and / but / or / so) word-à uniform
• Example: To generate income, magazine publishers must decide wheather to increase of the subscription price or -
• a. To sell advertising b. If they should sell advertising c. Selling advertising d. Sold advertising
4. The sentence certainly one tenses
5. Conjunctions in front of the sentence, then the middle of the sentence should be no punctuation comma (,)
• Altought, Because, when, since
• Example:
• - both men and women have their career Ambitions Often Achieved by midlife, many people are afflicted by at last a temporary period of dissatisfaction and depression.
• a. Because (answer) b. So c. A d. Who
6. IF Form
• If Present, ... will ...
• If Past, ... would ... (were) -> Special
• If had + V3, ... would have + V3 ...
• Example: If it - more humid in the desert of the Soutwest, the hot temperature would be unbearable.
• a. Be b. Is c. Was d. Were (answer) in accordance with the above formula
7. Conjunction pairs (paired conjunction)
• Both ... and ...
• Not only ... but also ...
• Either ... or ...
• Neither ... nor ...
• The same ... as ...
• As ... as ...
• Example: North Carolina is well known not only for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park - for the Cherokee Indian settlements
• a. Also b. And c. But also (answer) as the formula d. Because of

8. Comparatives and Superlative Sentences
• More /-er ... than -> g can wear the, but said: ... the sooner, the better ...
• Most / the-est ... in / of ...
9. Nouns that can be counted and can not be counted (Countable and uncountable noun Noun)
• Nouns may be calculated: Many, few
• nouns can not be counted: Much, little
• There is a specific noun is a noun that can not be counted: money, data, information, time, homework, equipment
• noun a word "s" meaning behind it certainly can be counted, unless the news (not counted)
• Example: For the investor who-money, silver, or bonds are good options.
• a. Has so little b. Has very little (answer) c. Has so few d. Has very few
10. Verb pairs
• Fail to
• Responsible for
• Afraid of
• Effect ... on ...
• Forbidden to ...
• Interested in a ...
• Example: The differential attractions of the sun and the moon have a direct effect on the rising and the falling of the tides
11. Conjunctive
• Who -> Predicate (V, tobe not people)
• Whom -> Subject (person)
• That -> Verb
• Example: John Philip Sousa, Whom many people consider the greatest composer of marches, wrote his music during the era known as the Gay 90s
12. Causative Form
• Principle tell people to do something
• People (had / made / let / help) V1 + people
• Example: I help you do your homework
13. Negative expressions
• (Not / only / never / rarely) + Sentences + (aux + s + v1)
14. Preposition (preposition)
• Single It, its
• Plural they, them
• Example: Aeronomy is the study of the earth's upper atmosphere, whch includes it's composition, temperature, density, and chemical reactions.
15. Pronouns (Pronoun)
• (by / in / of / for) + noun / V + ing
• Example: Althought it can be derived from oil, coal, and tar, kerosene is Usually produced by refining it from petroleum

 
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