CONTENT 1
UNIT ONE:TOEFL LISTENING COMPREHENSIONPART A 1
Lesson 1 1
1.1.Listening Focus:Talk 1:Areas 1
1.2.Exercises:Comparatives 4
1.3.TEST:PART A 6
1.4.Listening for Pleasure 7
Lesson 2 9
2.1.Listening Focus:Talk 2:Sleep 9
2.2.Exercise:Conditionals 13
2.3.TEST:PART A 15
2.4.Listening for Pleasure 16
Lesson 3 19
3.1.Listening Focus:Talk 3:Sign Language 19
3.2.Exercises:Sequence of events 23
3.3.TEST:PART A 26
3.4.Listening for Pleasure 27
Lesson 4 29
4.1.Listening Focus:Talk 4:Identikid 29
4.2.Exercises:Cause and Result 33
4.3.TEST:PART A 35
4.4.Listening for Pleasure 36
Lesson 5 38
5.1.Listening Focus:Talk 5:Driving on Ice 38
5.2.Exercises:Perfect modals 42
5.3.TEST:PART A 44
5.4.Listening for Pleasure 45
Lesson 6 47
6.1.Listening Focus:Talk 6:Coffee 47
6.2.Exercises:Model Test Part A 51
6.3.TEST:PART A- 52
6.4.Listening for Pleasure 54
7.1.Listening Focus:Talk 7:Dawson s Man 56
Lesson 7 56
7.2.Exercises:Hear sounds accurately 60
7.3.TEST:PART A 67
7.4.Listening for Pleasure 68
Lesson 8 71
8.1.Listening Focus:Talk 8:The Musical Instruments 71
8.2.Practice Test on Part A:100 Statements 75
8.3.Listening for Pleasure 80
UNIT TWO:TOEFL LISTENING COMPREHENSIONPART B 82
Lesson 9 82
9.1.Conversations 82
9.2.Exercises:Identify speakers 85
9.3.Listening Target:Synonyms 88
9.4.TEST:PART B 90
9.5.Listening for Pleasure 93
10.1.Conversations 95
Lesson 10 95
10.2.Exercises:Identify occupationsor professions 98
10.3.Listening Target:Negation/Contextual reference/Cause and effect 101
10.4.TEST:PART B 106
10.5.Listening for Pleasure 108
Lesson 11 111
11.1.Conversations 111
11.2.Exercises:Avoid sight-sound problems 114
11.3.Listenin Target:Conditionals/Chronological order 117
11.4.TEST:PART B 121
11.5.Listening for Pleasure 123
Lesson 12 126
12.1.Conversations 126
12.2.Exercises:Recognize language functions 130
12.3.Listening Target:Comparisons 133
12.4.TEST:PART B 135
12.5.Listening for Pleasure 138
13.1.Conversations 140
Lesson 13 140
13.2.Exercises:Recognize the speaker s purpose 143
13.3.Model Test on Part B 148
13.4.TEST:PART B 151
13.5.Listening for Pleasúre 154
Lesson 14 156
14.1.Conversations 156
14.2.Exercises:Recognize the speaker s purpose 160
14.3.Model Test on Part B 164
14.4.TEST:PART B 167
14.5.Listening for Pleasure 169
Lesson 15 171
15.1.Conversations 171
15.2.Exercises:Relate vocabulary to context 175
15.3.Model Test on Part B 180
15.4.TEST:PART B 183
15.5.Listening for Pleasure 186
16.1.Conversations 188
Lesson 16 188
16.2.Practice Test on Part B:75 dialogues 191
16.3.Listening for Pleasure 204
CLesson 17 206
17.1.Listening Focus Talk 9:Meteor-psychology 206
17.2.Listening Target:Announcements 210
17.3.Exercises:Identify subjects of lectures 213
17.4.TEST:PART C 214
17.5.Listening for Pleasure 218
Lesson 18 220
18.1.Listening Focus:Talk 10:The Clever Judgeand the Stolen Money 220
18.2.Exercises:Anticipate questions 225
18.3.Model Test on Part C 227
18.4.TEST:PART C 229
18.5.Listening for Pleasure 232
19.1.Listening Focus:Talk 11:Tornados 235
Lesson 19 235
19.2.Exercises:Recognize words in context 239
19.3.Model Test on Part C 241
19.4.TEST:PART C 245
19.5.Listening for Pleasure 247
Lesson 20 250
20.1.Listening Focus:Talk 12:Heredity 250
20.2.Exercises:Concentrate on overall meaning 254
20.3.Model Test on Part C 257
20.4.TEST:PART C 260
20.5.Listening for Pleasure 263
Lesson 21 266
21.1.Listening Focus:Talk 13:Arcosanti 266
21.2.Listening Target:Class discussion 1—5 271
21.3.Model Test on Part C 273
21.4.TEST:PART C 276
21.5.Listening for Pleasure 279
Lesson 22 282
22.1.Listening Focus:Talk 14:Credit 282
22.2.Model Test on Part C 287
22.3.TEST:PART C 290
22.4.Listening for Pleasure 293
Lesson 23 296
23.1.Listening Focus:Talk 15:Chess 296
23.2.Model Test on Part C 300
23.3.TEST:PART C 303
23.4.Listening for Pleasure 306
Lesson 24 309
24.1.Listening Focus:Talk 16:The Mayas:Background 309
24.2.Model Test on Part C 312
24.3.TEST:PARTC 316
24.4.Listening for Pleasure 319