Elementary TOEIC listening practice stage

B1: Listen to English without looking at the script.

Step 2: Open the script to see the content of the listening lesson. While listening, look at the script to see if you can't hear any words or sentences.

Step 3: Listen to the tape again a third time, this time looking at the words and reading along. A note for you is that the more you try to read as loudly as possible.

Step 4: Listen to the tape again and still look at the script

B5: Record new words, learn how to pronounce them and practice translating sentences.

 This stage will take a lot of time and sometimes you will even feel discouraged because you are not making progress. However, keep practicing because after only 2-3 months you will definitely improve.

After about 2-3 months, you can change your listening strategy by listening and dictating. This method will help you increase your vocabulary, remember pronunciation, and even use words to suit the context.

Advanced TOEIC listening practice stage

B1: Listen once to see how much of the lesson's content you understand.

B2: Listen to the spelling, word by word, sentence by sentence. If you can't hear anything, you can leave it blank and copy until the end of the lesson. Then open the script and review the places you haven't heard yet.

Step 3: Listen again and complete the missing parts without looking at the script.

Step 4: After completing the listening lesson, look at the words and read them out loud and clearly at tape speed.

B5: Record new words and learn how to pronounce them.

TOEIC listening practice strategy part 1+2

1. Part 1 TOEIC

Form:

Part 1 includes 6 pictures, instruction time lasts 1'25 minutes. For each picture, you will hear 4 sentences that directly describe the actions of people or the state of things in the photo. This description is not printed in the title. Your task is to choose the sentence that best describes the photo.

Post formats:

Depending on different ways of division, part 1 has the following types of lessons:

- Method 1: Divide by subject: Paintings depicting people and paintings depicting objects.

- Method 2: Divide pictures by common scenes and locations: Workplace, Specific locations, home, housework, free time, moving situations.

Common structures

- Paintings depicting people

When starting this part, you need to take the time to carefully analyze the painting and pay attention to the following characteristics:

+ Character's physical characteristics: Observe the character to deduce information about gender, clothing, occupation,... Then you think of as many words as possible that may appear in the article.

+ Body part actions: Eyes (which direction to look at, where to look,...), hands (holding, grasping,...), legs (running, standing,...)... Then you Meaning of verbs that may appear in the article.

+ Scenery, furniture in the picture: Based on the context in the picture to deduce the location of the picture: in the meeting room, kitchen, park,... Then think in your head of words that can be heard indicating the location .

 

2. Part 2 TOEIC

Form

Part 2 is the second listening part in TOEIC listening. Unlike part 1 where you have to look at the picture and listen to 4 answers to choose the most accurate answer for the picture, part 2 only needs to listen to the questions and short answers.

Part 2 will include 25 sentences. Each question has one question and 3 answer options. A special feature of part 2 is that the questions and answers are not printed in the exam. You will only hear one question and 3 answer options for each question, then choose the answer that matches the question.

Question format

+ Informational questions: Are questions that start with the question words: Where, when, who/by whom, what/which, how... and the answer always provides appropriate information.

+ YES/NO questions: Usually begin with an auxiliary verb, a modal verb or the verb to be. The starting answer may be Yes/No and is followed by a phrase or clause based on factual information.

+ Other question types: Multiple choice questions, tag questions, narrative questions