Listening Questions

Listening Questions

1. Most of the Listening questions that follow the lectures and conversations are traditional multiple-choice questions with four answer choices and a single cor- rect answer.but exist more types

   • Types of questions
     • COMMON TYPES
       • questions that require you to put in order events or steps in a process
         • Some questions replay a part of the lecture or conversation.
       • questions that require you to match objects or text to categories in a table
         • You will then be asked a multiple-choice question about what you have just heard.
       • multiple-choice questions with more than one correct answer
         • two answers out of four choices or three answers out of five choices
     • CATEGORIES OF QUESTIONS
       • Basic Comprehension questions
         • Gist-Content
           • Understanding the gist of a lecture or conversation means understanding the general topic or main idea.
             • Questions that test understanding the gist of a lecture or converation may require you to generalize or synthesize information from what you hear.
         • Detail
           • Detail questions require you to understand and remember explicit details or facts from a lecture or conversation.
             • In some cases where there is a long digression that is not clearly related to the main idea, you may be asked about some details of the digression.
         • Gist-Purpose
           • Some gist questions focus on the purpose of the conversation or lecture rather than on the content.
             • This type of question will more likely occur with conversations, but Gist-Purpose questions may also occasionally be asked about lectures.