LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Tim MKU Bahasa Inggris

UNESA
 LISTENING COMPREHENSION
± 30 minutes
 Consist of 50 questions
 Divided into three parts
PART A PART B PART C
• consists of 30
• Consists of 2 • Consists of 2
short
long talks/lectures.
conversations.
conversations. • Each talk or
• Each
• Each lecture is
conversation
conversation followed by 4
is followed by
is followed by or 5 questions.
a question.
4 or 5
questions.
 General strategies (1)

1. Don’t hesitate to answer.

a. Never leave any answers blank.
b. No score reduction for wrong answers.

2. Be familiar with the directions.

3. Decide your answer quickly, then move on.

c. You have 12 seconds only between each question on
the recording.
d. Use any remaining time to look ahead the answers to
the question that follow.
 General strategies (2)

4. Stay focus.
a. Pay attention on the whole recording
b. As you listen to a conversation, read along the
answer options in your test book and try to guess
the question which might be asked
c. As you listen to a conversation,
draw conclusion about the situation of the
conversation: who is talking, where the conversation
takes place, or when it takes place

5. Understand the questions.

TYPE OF QUESTION (1)

WHAT
• What does the man/woman mean?
• What are the man & woman discussing?
• What are the man & woman talking about?
• What is the main subject of the conversation?
• What is the purpose of the conversation?
• What do we know about …?
• What do we learn about …?
 TYPE OF QUESTION (2)

• What did the man/woman do?

• What does the man/woman prefer to do?
• What does the man/woman need to do?
• What does the man/woman probably want to
do?
• What will the man/woman probably do next?
TYPE OF QUESTION (3)

• What is the man/woman problem?

• What is the man/woman excuse?
• What does the man/woman suggest … to do?
• What does the man/woman imply?
• What had the man/woman thought?
• What should the man/woman have done?
• What has the man/woman assumed?

Assumptions
 TYPE OF QUESTION (4)
when, where, who, why, how

• Where does the conversation take place?

• When does the conversation take place?
• Who is the man/woman in this conversation?
• Why does the man/woman have problem?
• How does the man/woman feel?

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What listening practices
are we going to learn in
this course?
 Practice on part A
Dialogs, focus on:

 Topics
 Details
 Selections
 Reversals
 Idioms
 Emotions
 Suggestions
 Assumptions
 Predictions
 Implications
 Problems
 Practice on PART B
 Conversations between Friends on Campus
 Conversations between Campus Personnel and Students
 Conversations between Campus Professors and Students
 Consultations between Professors and Students
 Group Discussions between Students
 Class Clarifications between Professor and Students
 Practice on PART C

 General Talks by Professor

 Content Lectures by Professor
 Interactive Lectures by Professor and
Students
THE END