2016-04-14 Pre TOEFL: listening question types

Greg Malivuk
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Question types on the listening section:
main idea - “what is the main idea” “what are they mainly discussing”
detail - factual information questions about important, relevant details
purpose - Questions about why they are having this discussion or what the purpose of the lecture is.
inference - Usually include words like “imply”, “infer”, or “probably”.
function - This is what I called “rhetorical purpose” yesterday. Questions about why a speaker says a specific thing. (You will hear audio from the listening during these questions.)
attitude - about the opinion of one of the speakers
organization - questions about how something fits into the rest of the listening passage
connecting content - complete a table putting ideas in the correct category or categories based on the listening
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Listening test handout p. 22-23 - What type is each question about this listening?
12 main idea
13 function
14 inference
15 function
16 detail
17 detail
Listen again to the classroom discussion and answer the questions.
12 A (not D because it’s not the main topic, though they do talk about both internal and external messages. not B because, again, it’s not the main topic even though etiquette is mentioned. not C because letters and emails are never compared)
13 C (not B, because it might be the same business)
14 B (they disagree with each other, not the professor, but we don’t know if they exchange any emails with each other, so it’s also not C)
15 B
16 C (group messages aren’t personalized)
17 A and B
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Homework: identify the question types for questions 18-34