Insist on listening to real questions
The real questions can better reflect the purpose and method of TOEFL. If candidates can be familiar with the real questions in the past when preparing for the exam, it will be of great help to the TOEFL listening test. Don't aim too high, concentrate on the biased, difficult and strange listening chapters, which may undermine the self-confidence of candidates and waste valuable preparation time.
If you don't understand in the exercise, you can check the original text.
In the process of doing TOEFL listening questions, we should try our best to master the commonly used sentence patterns and characteristic vocabulary in the article and increase our sensitivity to these questions. In the case of repeated incomprehension, it may be due to continuous reading, vocabulary barriers, unclear idioms and other reasons.
Don't be too entangled in this, you can try to guess according to the context, or guess according to the tone of the context. Read the original text and find out the crux of the problem.
Vocabulary runs through it.
The amount of vocabulary determines the examinee's understanding of listening materials. Imagine that if you don't know more than half of the words in the listening materials, even if the candidates have a good grammar foundation, they can't understand the content of the listening expression. The characteristic vocabulary in the material is often the key word of the answer to the question, which plays a vital role in mastering any part of the vocabulary in the TOEFL test.
Listening and reciting are more helpful than reading aloud.
Repeated reading of listening materials is often mentioned in TOEFL preparation. I don't mean reading aloud with listening materials. A more effective way is to listen to a sentence and then repeat it; Listen and repeat the original intention; Listen to a paragraph and summarize the main idea. This not only exercises the memory process from single sentence to long sentence repetition in short-term memory, but also improves the understanding and summary of the content.
Study with enthusiasm.
Interest and enthusiasm are the best motivation for learning. The focus of preparing for TOEFL listening test is to master the correct methods and skills, and you can keep practicing. In the training and study of TOEFL listening, we need not only patience, but also confidence. I would like to remind you that you must grasp the main points in preparing for TOEFL listening.