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Week 1
Basic Comprehension
MATERIALS OUTLINE:
Introduction
Listening Review & Exercise: Skills 1-2
Communication: Good communicators
Language Function: Giving Opinion
Speaking Practice: Giving Opinion
Conclusion
CONTENT
1. Listening Skill 1
Understand the Gist
In IBT Listening TOEFL Test, there are six basic skills. The first skill is about
how to understand the gist. Many Indonesian people don’t know about what the
gist is. In simple terms, when we are about to make an orange juice, first we take
off the peel. Next, we we squueze the oranges to get some juice. Basically, that is
what we call as the gist. It is the essence from something.
In IBT TOEFL, gist questions are questions that ask about the overall ideas of a
passage as a whole. They may ask about the subject, topic, or main idea of a
passage. They may also what overall purpose the passage serves. It is important to
understand that the gist of a passage may be directly stated in the passage, or you
may have to synthesize (bring together) information from different parts of the
passage to understand the overall gist.
Where to find the answer Information to help you understand the gist
2. Listening Skill 2
Understand the Details
In IBT TOEFL Listening, there are questions that ask you about specific piece of
information that are stated in a passage. As you listen to each passage, you should
focus on the details from the passage because questions about details quite
commonly accompany the passages. Multiple-choice questions are used to test
details, and these multiple-choice questions may have one correct answer or two
correct answers.
How to answer the question Listen carefully to the details in the passage
Look for an answer that restates the
information from the passage.
Eliminate the definitely wrong answers and
choose the best answers from the remaining
choices.