The following is my compilation of TOEFL listening training materials recommended, welcome to refer to.

Suitable for practicing listening materials include: the old TOEFL TOEFL listening material (material), Part C of the lectures and the new TOEFL iBT of the lectures. new TOEFL iBT of the lectures is very long, you can be divided into a few times (many times) to practice dictation. If you have a month or two left to take a test, keep in mind that all of the exercises should be directly relevant to the test you're taking.

The first step (the first step): total listening to all the article (to listen all the article)

Since it is called total listening, that is, do not get caught up in the article content (content) details (detail). Total listening to do only two things: one is clear theme, probably know what the paragraph about (what is the paragraph about). The second is to search logic (to search logic). What does the logic of an English article include? As long as you can simply determine the article is written in chronological order (time order) or space order (space order); is the phenomenon explained or a comparison of the two points of view. So in the total listening to the first time, pay attention to those words (word), can help us quickly grasp (to master) the article's logic (logic) relationship.

For example, if you listen to a passage and hear in the past, your prediction is that it will be followed by now, and perhaps in the future. In the past, we have been very interested in this kind of hints, and we have been very interested in this kind of hints, and we have been very interested in this kind of hints. In the past, we were not sensitive to words that could indicate the logical relationship or order of your article. We always got bogged down in the details the first time we dictated.

The second step: listen to every sentence

When listening to every sentence, I've seen a student use a repeater. After a sentence is finished, he presses a repeat, letting the machine read the sentence over and over again, and he dictates it down word by word without slowing down. This kind of dictation belongs to inefficient or even ineffective dictation. In other words, you put in 80% of the effort (effort), but may only bring 20% of the effect (effect). There are also some students is this practice (to practice): listen to a sentence, just heard two words (two words), immediately press pause (stop), write down the two words, and then listen to three words press pause, write down the three words. A sentence was divided into many parts, listening to the fragmentation. I'm talking about listening to each sentence, mainly emphasizing the concept of the sentence (concept), is sentence by sentence dictation, not word by word dictation. However, the sentence here does not mean that you have to get a period to be considered a sentence, here refers to a semantic pause (stop), including like a comma, semicolon, colon, etc., are called semantic pause, you can press pause in such a place.

Specific operational suggestions (suggestion): listen to a sentence once, to a semantic pause place press pause, through your memory (memory) to write down the sentence. Some students may say, teacher, a sentence said more than a dozen words, I can only write out three or five words, it doesn't matter (it doesn't matter), because we practice here is not to hear the content of the ability to write down completely, but to exercise the memory and summarize the ability. Remember: listen to each sentence only once, and try your best to write or retell what you have heard. Write as much as you can. Start with three or five words, and keep practicing, and you'll be able to write more.

The third step: to think over and over again

This step is central. "Over and over again" is not an adverb to modify to think over, to think over and over again is a verb to think over and over again. How many repetitions are appropriate? I have seen very diligent students, a sentence do not understand, he swore (swear) that I will not eat if I do not hear you out! So repeated thirty to fifty times, listening to the eyes are green, still do not understand. This is not again 80% of the effort used in the inefficient 20% of the things. Repeating it three or five times is perfect. If a sentence is repeated three or five times and still do not hear it, and then listen to ten or eight times and three or five times the effect is not much difference (no difference). But one or two times is too little. Don't be in a hurry to know what's being said, but to build a sense of the whole sentence by repeating it three or five times.

A. After repeating the sentence once, the meaning is understood, so don't try to write it down word for word. Just write down the main idea of the sentence by memorizing and summarizing it.B. After repeating the sentence a few times, you find that you understand most of the content, but you don't hear the individual words. These individual words may be new words to us, or they may be due to pronunciation or phonetic changes that lead to our not hearing them. What you need to do is to report voice symbols. That is, to record the sounds you hear using familiar phonetic symbols, Chinese characters, or other phonetic symbols. This is very important. Students always say, "Teacher, I can't understand this sentence. I will ask: Do you hear the sound? He said, "Yes. I say, "What sound do you hear." He said, "Ah, forget it."

We practice why not improve (can not improve), is because every time we repeat three or five times after the direct open the original read. Once you read the original text suddenly realized, oh, so it is such a sentence ah. At this point, when you put the original text aside and listen to the listening material again, you find that you understand it all. And it's not at all with your ears, it's not that your listening level has improved, it's that you memorized it after reading it with your eyes. When I listen to a Cantonese song, I read the lyrics first and then listen to it, and I will think that my Cantonese listening level is not bad, I can understand it. But if I don't read the lyrics and listen to the song directly, I will definitely be confused. Over the years, many students have been living in this illusion. After listening a few times, reading the original text and then listening to it again, they think their listening level has improved. Therefore, to change this situation, we must record sound symbols during listening. The purpose of doing so is to establish a connection between the sounds you hear and the actual content. Write down the sounds you hear using familiar symbols, even if you can only record the ebb and flow of a tone or an individual voice. Sometimes it's just a matter of getting that little bit closer.

In the process of dictation, this step of recording voice symbols is that little bit. If you don't record it, you'll never know what the sound of the word or phrase (expression) sounds like to your ears. The same word acts in different ears, the sound symbol (symbol) is different. If you record it carefully once, the next time you hear the same or similar voice, your reaction speed and comprehension ability will be accelerated. Why is it that when we hear Good morning, we don't need to reflect to understand it at all, and we will immediately react to the meaning of good morning. It is because we are already very familiar with the sound symbols of these two words. Many other words or phrases we don't even recognize, let alone have any sound symbols that seem familiar in our minds. Nor do we ever try to realize what it feels like to hear these words and phrases in our own ears.

C. Listening three or five times and realizing that the whole sentence still doesn't make sense. This is the result of a number of factors. There may be words, sound changes, or unfamiliarity with the structure of the sentence. In this case, you should do the work mentioned in A.B at the same time. In this case, you should do the work mentioned in A.B at the same time, and take this sentence as the key point for the next step of pondering and summarizing. After you have repeated the sentence three or five times, open the script and compare it with the original text and your own dictation notes. What do you want to think about? I didn't hear it because I didn't recognize the word, or because I thought there was a phenomenon, or because I was unfamiliar with the sound of the word or phrase, and my reaction was slow. If you can stick to this kind of training for twenty days to a month, it is impossible to have problems with listening. All the material as long as the vocabulary accumulated, listening to how much material does not have a problem. This is what we said in the third step of the repeated refinement to do two work.

The forth step: summarize all the paragraph

Summarize all the paragraph is that we hope you can summarize the time to do two things. One is to listen to the original text again against the sound material that you have written. And then look at the original listening in the heart silently (silently) read this article again, while recalling (recall) just here why did not hear out. If you find a problem, it is more important to adopt a strategy to solve the problem. If it's because I don't know the words, I'll memorize them twice. If it's because of a pronunciation issue, I'll read along twice more. If it's because I'm not familiar with the sentence pattern, I'll bring up the sentence individually to analyze it and then use the pattern to create two more sentences. In fact, a one-minute article (essay), if we insist on practicing once a day with these four major steps (step), a month down, the listening level will certainly soar.

There is a rumor in the jungle that the TOEFL is the best way to get the TOEFL. It is not unreasonable to savor it, because we all know that the TOEFL test is divided into four parts, three of which have a listening test (listening test), and once the listening problem, the consequences are unimaginable. The next step is to share with you how to improve TOEFL listening (to share).

In my opinion (in my eyes), listening to the students encountered the most important (the most important) problem is not understand the problem, and do not understand is a very big and empty concept (concept), after many years of listening to teaching (teaching), I found that the students do not understand the problem (question), the total number of students is not enough. *** There are three aspects of the composition, respectively: vocabulary (vocabulary), grammar (grammar), listening to the blind spot three aspects of the problem, today I mainly share with you the first aspect of the problem.

The vocabulary of the students did not pass, I always emphasize (emphasize), TOEFL listening is actually equivalent to the reading of the strengthened (strengthening) version of the reading we can repeat, and listening to only one opportunity, once there is a understanding of the blind spot, will lead to the full text of the understanding of the problem (problem). Then in the process of listening comprehension, students will often have such an experience, that is, some words in the reading really does not pose a threat (threat), but in the hearing of the threat is really very big, mainly because of the repetitive nature of the reading, if we have vocabulary problems, we can be deduced from the context of the semantics of the word, the root of the word to deduce, and even use the sense of language to judge (to), but, in the hearing of the word, we can repeatedly read the word, but we do not know what to say. Judge), but, in the listening does not exist in these skills (skill), once over, there is no time to reflect (to reflect), knock. Therefore, the vocabulary of the students put forward a relatively high demand, to do instantaneous response (immediate reflection), in an instant to respond to the meaning of vocabulary, and this point for the students, the challenge (challenge) is still very big, because we grew up reciting vocabulary fixed mode (fixed mode), that is, focusing on the spelling (spelling), and the vocabulary of the students. Spelling and meaning are often taken for granted, and pronunciation is often taken for granted, and frequently taken for granted will lead to taken for granted. This leads to a lot of mistakes in listening, and misunderstanding of vocabulary -- pronunciation and vocabulary don't add up.

Here, I propose that students can make good use of (to make use of) the 21-day vocabulary of this textbook, the vocabulary (vocabulary), I personally believe that the vocabulary books on the market in the word frequency is relatively high (high), and the book's most important feature is equipped with audio (video), which is read in English, and then use the Chinese explanation (explain). Chinese explanation (explanation), the interval between English and Chinese is about 1 to 2 seconds, during which students need to respond to the meaning of the vocabulary, there is a kind of competition with the audio race (race) feeling, in the long run, students for high-frequency vocabulary (high frequent vocabulary) reaction speed will be greatly improved. In the future, when listening to TOEFL articles, you will not put all the attention (attention) on the word meaning, but more on the meaning of the sentence, for the higher realm of understanding of the meaning of the group to do a good job of solid padding.

2. Listen again the second time. Try to be able to repeat the general content.

How to Practice TOEFL Listening

There are many ways to practice TOEFL listening on the market, but they all require you to spend more time, and today I'm going to teach you a simple and easy to practice TOEFL listening on a regular basis, how to practice TOEFL listening on a regular basis using materials around you. The first thing you need to do is to use the material around you to practice TOEFL listening, and I hope it will help you in your review.

European and American campus movies

The topics of campus life also occupy a large part of the TOEFL listening and speaking questions, especially the first few questions, how to play the situation has a direct impact on the psychological state of the candidates. Because they are all daily content, the content is also nothing more than parents, so there is no raw words to speak of. The first thing you need to know is how familiar you are with the material you're listening to.

The questions about campus life are based on real high school and college life, from choosing a dormitory, to asking for directions on campus, to learning how to use the library, to exchanging papers with teachers, and even discussing new school policies with classmates. These may not be common in Chinese campus life, but they are essential elements of studying abroad.

If you want to understand the real life of European and American campuses, then campus movies will definitely open a window for you. For example, school cheerleading training, campus radio news, charity fund-raising, annual dance, debating with teachers about school policies and so on, these contents can be found in a wealth of youthful movies. Some of the more famous ones are The Princess Diaries, Hot Moms and Girls, and Legally Blonde, etc. It's like when Chinese students see The Girl We Chased All Those Years Ago and The Boys in the Middle, where everyone can see themselves at school, and it's a great way to see how much they've really gotten out of school.

Online Classes

Half of TOEFL listening is a recreation of a classroom scene, where the teacher provides a new term or picture, and interacts with the class while explaining it to them. The whole model is actually no different from the usual classroom, although it is conducted in English.

This is the first time we've seen the world's most popular video game, and we've seen it in action.

The free online open classes of major universities provide an opportunity to reproduce the original European and American classroom teaching scene, regardless of the teacher's pronunciation or specific content. And all the resources are from famous teachers and schools, covering math, literature, engineering, biology, history, economics, the environment, and so on, so it's a good time for us to nourish our hobbies.

Because public lectures are generally longer, more to help candidates familiarize themselves with the atmosphere of a full English classroom, the difficulty of the teacher's vocabulary, the speed of speech, accent, etc. in advance to familiarize themselves with, and thus in the TOEFL listening to the examination room to see the trick. I once studied abroad (microblogging) for a year. Before I left to listen to public lectures are still in the stage of relying on subtitles, often a word misses the back of a whole paragraph are slow to understand half a beat; however, a year of studying abroad does let me have a very obvious progress, without opening the subtitles can be easily understood, and TOEFL listening to get a full score. I'm sure you'll find the same thing in the open classroom as I did.

It's important to emphasize that the open class is a class, and it's a class that requires you to take notes. This is also the same as TOEFL listening, you need to write down the key words from time to time, rationalize the order between the classification and points, and understand the cause and effect relationship before and after. This is very different from TED a few minutes to understand the general idea of the topic, here for the long listening, can not be without understanding. So in order to facilitate understanding, it is not a bad idea to listen with English subtitles on, which will also help you familiarize yourself with the proper nouns, and naturally memorize them after mixing them up.

2 If your TOEFL listening rate can reach 40%, then it is recommended that you start with the standard speed VOA or old TOEFL Part C, and then go all the way down to TPO.

Essential TOEFL Listening Practice Materials

1. To The New TOEFL iBT (The Official Guide to the New TOEFL Test, commonly known as the Official Guide or OG)

Review the IBT, the most authoritative is the official guide published by the ETS, the book's title is not much, and relatively basic, but its guidance, authority is the book's biggest highlights. For listening review is also the same, the idea of questions and test articles are very close to the difficulty and test. This book is worth the preparation for the repeated practice and study, the most important thing is to experience it out of the idea.

2. DELTA's Key To The Next Generation TOEFL Test: Advanced Skill Practice for the IBT (commonly known as the blue Delta)

This book is not too difficult. The disadvantage is that the comprehensive oral aspect of the listening material is a little difficult, the logic of the article is not very good grasp, we listen to the time is not easy to grasp the main points. But the questions are a little easier than the real questions, so this material is very suitable for the review of the initial practice, to strengthen the questions.

3. New TOEFL Listening (for those who are not familiar with the basics)

This book analyzes and explains the skills of the two conversations and four classroom speeches in the New TOEFL Listening Test section. It also provides a large number of simulation questions for test takers to practice.

4. VOA, Discovery, and National Geographic (pan-listening)

A: VOA, the original version of these materials, spoken fluently, can develop a sense of language, to cope with the TOEFL customary way of questioning, is just right to deal with the needs of the new TOEFL listening test. In addition, you can also listen and write Standard VOA. VOA's Special English is more suitable for students whose strength is not so good.Standard Voa, the difficulty is a little higher.

B: Discovery and VOA Science Report These two materials cover a wide range of intersection with the new TOEFL listening, familiar with the various areas of the topic is very helpful, and the material has a certain academic and depth.

5. The old TOEFL listening Part C (general listening)

The best listening and dictation material for the new TOEFL is this. Because the New Test is a continuation of the Old Test, the Old Test and the New Test are roughly equivalent in terms of subject matter, vocabulary, and difficulty. Of course, if the foundation is relatively weak students, you can first spend a month to the new concept of the second and third book of the U.S. and English version of the first dictation, and then come back to dictate the old TOEIClecture, so that the foundation is more solid, the effect is more obvious.

6. Delta's Key to the Next Generation Toefl Test: Six Practice Tests for the iBT (commonly known as the red Delta )

This book is for doing model tests on paper. The downside is that it's a little too easy, and it's mainly used to find confidence.

7. High Score New TOEFL Listening 120 (CBT)

This book is a good way to grasp the ideas and content of the exam, and it's a good book for us to practice intensively. And there is also modeling software, you can early on the machine training. But this book is not easy to listen to, suitable for the degree of slightly higher or after a certain review of the foundation of the candidates to use.

8. Online practice (actually TPO)

This practice is also very important, you can listen to it before the exam, to find the feeling of the real problem. The downside is that there aren't many questions.

9. TPO:

The most powerful online model test from ETS can be considered the most important. The importance of the real questions is unquestionable. Although recently, the view that it is useless to brush up on the actual questions has been clamoring for attention, ETS has not given up on the release of TPO, and it is clear that the only material that ETS can provide to those who are preparing for the exams is TPO, which is the actual questions that have been examined.

In addition to the general listening structure, we should also familiarize ourselves with some of the common test points, so that we can use two threads to weave a web to capture information points. The vast majority of detail questions can be contained in our grid. For example: art topics like to test about writers, their evaluation, masterpieces, etc., need to usually listen to the time to get into the habit. The first thing you need to do is to take notes on the questions, so you need to familiarize yourself with the characteristics of the questions.