Improving Your Listening Skills (TOEFL)
1. Use the resources in your community to practice listening to English. A. Visit places in your community where you can hear English spoken. - Go to an English school, an embassy or an English-speaking Chamber of Commerce. - Go to a museum and take an audio tour in English. - Follow a guided tour in English of your city. - Call or visit a hotel where tourists stay and get information in English about room rates, hotel availability or hotel facilities. - Call and listen to information recorded in English, such as a movie schedule, a weather report or information about an airplane flight. B. Watch or listen to programs recorded in English. - Watch television programs. a. CNN, the Discovery Channel or National Geographic b. Watch movies, soap operas or situation comedies - Rent videos or go to a movie in English. - Listen to a book on tape in English. -