How to practice listening skills

Daily training methods for English Special 8 listening skills:

1. Strengthen storage memory (memory span): Don’t listen word by word, but grasp key words or sentences.

2. Strengthen immediate recall: After listening to a sentence, repeat it immediately. You may not be able to do it at the beginning, and you need to practice more frequently.

3. Brief note-taking: When listening to longer materials, use abbreviations or markers that you can understand to make quick notes, especially numbers, places, names or other keywords. wait.

4. Do more dictating and note-taking training (dictating & note-taking): This kind of practice helps to store memory and train to grasp key words or sentences, as well as the central idea.

5. Intensive listening and extensive listening (intensive & extensive listening): Intensive listening: listening to the same content several times repeatedly, which helps to increase the duration of memory; extensive listening: listening to different content Materials that help increase the experience of listening to a variety of voices, accents and speaking speeds. The two should be organically combined.

6. Training listening and looking for answers at the same time (looking for the right answer while listening): Browse the options quickly while listening, just look at the different parts of each option, and the same Just look at the first part to save time. It is best to use the gaps in each section of the exam to quickly browse the options for the exercises to be done.

Extended information:

Methods for TEM-8 listening comprehension:

Listening Comprehension

For the listening part of the TEM-8 exam Characteristics can be discussed from two aspects: partial and overall understanding. Looking at the listening test questions of TEM-8, we can find that all test question types are based on the content included by what, who, where, when, why and how, that is, events, people, places, times, reasons and ways. The listening materials for the TEM-8 exam consist of narrative essays and dialogues (or interviews, interviews) of varying lengths that focus on a certain phenomenon or event.

Candidates must grasp the main points of the matter and the development clues of the event in a big situation before they can answer the question. Most English majors have good basic listening skills. What they need to improve is the breadth and depth of listening. Therefore, candidates must consciously listen more and practice more in their daily study life.

Listening materials

In fact, the principle that "listening" and "speaking" are not separated is also reflected in the TEM-8 exam. The listening test of TEM-8 is selected from English materials that are generally strong in oral English and reflect modern life. Therefore, candidates can concentrate on listening to more mass media English and conduct practical exercises.

The selected listening materials should be lower in difficulty than the reading materials, because things that cannot be read are generally incomprehensible. English from newspapers, magazines, movies, and television are excellent materials for practicing listening. English majors, especially senior students, can practice listening by watching original movies or listening to movie audio clips.

General schools will have a wealth of audio-visual materials, and many cities have also specially opened English TV channels. TV English news is of great help to candidates in the third part of the TEM-8 exam.

Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia_English Major Test Band 8