Listening Skills 2

FACTUAL, NEGATIVE FACTUAL, AND INFERENCE QUESTIONS

Listening Skills 2

Listening Skills

Remember there are 6 important listening skills for the TOEFL test Understanding the main idea (last week’s lesson) Understanding facts (today’s lesson) Drawing inferences (today’s lesson) Identifying attitude/purpose of the speaker Ordering Analyzing charts

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Today, we will study: Factual questions Negative factual questions Inference questions

**Good note taking is extremely important for answering these questions

**These questions follow the order of the conversation/lecture. So, the first few questions will be in the beginning of your notes, the next few in the middle, and the last few at the end of your notes.

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Factual questions – supporting ideas and details of the conversation/lecture

These questions ask:

Who What When Where Why How

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Many of these questions start like this:

According to the man/woman ….. According to the professor...

If something is repeated in the conversation, there will probably

be a question about it. Example from p. 43

Student A: My project took 6 weeks to finish.Student B: 6 weeks! I can’t believe it……

There will almost always be a question about this. ‘How long did it take to finish the project?’

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Negative factual questions

These questions ask which choice is not true.

Example from page 48

Which of the following is NOT true about the length of a day on Venus?

o It is longer than an Earth dayo It is longer than an Earth yearo It is shorter than a Venus yearo It is shorter than a day on Jupiter

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Inference questions – For these questions, you have to make a conclusion

from the information in the conversation/lecture.

These questions start like this:

What does the man/woman imply about ____________? What does the professor imply about __________? What can be inferred from this lecture about ____________? What can be inferred about the man’s comment about

______?

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Let me repeat again the most important thing:

Take Good Notes!!