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Listening is the most essential skill that a candidate should have in order to have an ideal score in TOEFL Ibt oral English. In the test, there are six tasks and task 3,4,5,6 requires the student to listen and understand the given topic before answering. Candidates usually have a hard time to understand not only because their listening skill is not good but also because of the conversation topic or academic topics such as lectures and experiments. Toefl ibt Oral English task 5 is an integrated task that is based on a conversation between two people talking about a problem and then the examinee have to choose which is the best solution to the problem . This task have high demand in listening for student and It is the only task in speaking 3,4,5,6 that requires the examinees to give opinion. The TOEFL iBT will probably not ask a “gist-content” question. Instead, the first question after the conversation will probably be a “gist-purpose” question. A gist-purpose question asks about the main reason why one speaker is talking to the other. For example, the question might ask, “Why did the student go to the professor’s office?” In this type of test the student should have to listen to the main problem first and grasp the speaker’s two possible solutions to the problem . At the end, he/she should give her own choice of solution to the problem. To be able to do so, students have to learn to listen to important or key words and phrases to make it easier for them to catch the answer. They should also know some brief tips for taking main-idea notes. In this article, we will look further into what things should be noted. In particular, which notes can be valuable for “gist-purpose” listening questions. The TOEFL iBT will probably not ask a “gist-content” question. Instead, the first question after the conversation will probably be a “gist-purpose” question. A gist-purpose question asks about the main reason why one speaker is talking to the other. For example, the question might ask, “Why did the student go to the professor’s office?” (责任编辑：admin) |
