Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Overview
Section
Listening
Content
46 lectures
(5 minutes)
6 questions
each
23
conversation
s
(3 minutes)
5 questions
each
Time
6090
minutes (in
total)
35 seconds
to answer
each
question
Score
/30
2. Language Level
More informal language than in Reading
section
based on speech samples from North American
colleges and universities
Lectures
more difficult than conversations because of
academic content
3. Types of Listening
Passages
Lectures
Classroom discussions
professor and students discuss an academic topic
Conversations
office hours with a student visit to a professor
service encounters with support staf
4. Lecture Visuals
Screen with course name
Context visual: professor in class
with students
Types of graphic screens
content image: explains content
with photograph or illustration
blackboard image with key
terminology
5. Conversation Visuals
Context visual sets the scene.
Visual appears when narrator introduces
the conversation.
6. Question Sets
Each set
two lectures and one conversation
each set of passages has 17 questions
Time
10 minutes to answer 17 questions
7. Listening Toolbar
NEXT to see the next question.
OK to confirm the answer.
After clicking OK, you cannot change your
answer.
8. Multiple Choice
Questions
9. Connecting Content
Questions
Function
ask about meaning behind
speakers words
Gist Questions
Incorrect answers may be too broad or too narrow.