TOEFL Listening Part B - Skill 8: The Topics

 

TOEFL Listening Part B - Skill 8: THE TOPICS

As you listen to each conversation in Listening Part B, you should be thinking about the topic (subject) or main idea for each conversation. Since the first one or two sentences generally give the topic, you should be asking yourself what the topic is while you are listening carefully to the first part of the conversation.

 Example

On the recording, you hear:

     (narrator)  : Listen to the conversation between two students.

     (man)        : What did you think of that history exam

     (woman)   : That was the hardest exam I’ve ever seen.

     (man)        : And it wasn’t just hard! It was long, too.

You think:

The topic of conversation is a very long and difficult history exam. 

EXERCISE 8: Listen to the first part of each of the conversations, and decide on the topic of each conversation.

Now BEGIN THE RECORDING AT EXERCISE 8.

1. What is the topic of Conversation 1?

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2. What is the topic of Conversation 2?

________________________________________________________________________

3. What is the topic of Conversation 3?

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Answers:

1. the assignment for the class
2. that Greg was stung by a hornet
3. the university bus system 

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