TOEFL Junior - Listening

This book is divided into 7 chapters: Question Types, Talks and Announcements, Conversations, Academic Talks and Discussions, Practice Tests, Scripts, and Answers.

Chapter 1 covers 7 question types which are often found in the TOEFL Junior Listening test: main idea, purpose, inference, prediction, prosody, detail, and rhetorical structure. Each type of questions introduces typical questions, test-taking strategies, and a sample.

Chapter 2 introduces talks and announcements including talks in the classroom, talks in the library, and campus announcements. Each section focuses on an introduction to a particular text type together with a practice set consisting of a number of comprehension questions. Next comes a gap-fill listening exercise, and at the end of each text type, a vocabulary list coupled with some background knowledge is provided to facilitate learners’ listening ability.

Chapter 3 presents some information on conversations often found in the TOEFL Junior Listening test. Then, a typical conversation and 2 practice sets that are comprised of a number of questions are provided. Similar to Chapter 2, gap-fill listening exercises and vocabulary lists coupled with some background knowledge are also provided to facilitate learners’ listening ability.

Chapter 4 describes some academic talks and discussions frequently given in the test and also contains the following sections that are the same as those in the two previous chapters.

Chapter 5 provides two practice tests which help learners familiarize themselves with the format of an actual TOEFL Junior Listening test in order to get ready for it.

Chapter 6 provides scripts of all of the exercises and practice tests in the book.

Chapter 7 contains the answers to all of the exercises and practice tests in the book.