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C Attitude Questions Attitude questions ask you about the speaker's attitude toward something mentioned in the conversation or lecture.. The answer to these questions is never given dir

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The presenter does not compare Venus with the other planets in the first part

of his presentation (although later he does compare specific aspects of Venus with

those of certain other planets), so 1 is not correct The best answer is 2 The student

begins by talking about people’s ideas of Venus in ancient times (“First off, back in

the really in the really ancient days, people thought Venus was a star, not a

planet and .”) The presenter does not ask the other students what they already

know about Venus, so choice 3 is not correct Later in the lecture, he does mention

a few of the space probes that were sent to Venus, but this is not part of the intro-

duction Therefore, 4 is not a good answer

You will probably see one or two method questions per Listening Section

(C) Attitude Questions

Attitude questions ask you about the speaker's attitude toward something mentioned

in the conversation or lecture What is the speaker's opinion of some concept, person,

or thing? The answer to these questions is never given directly in the conversation or

lecture You must infer the answer from the speaker's vocabulary and tone of voice

Here is a portion of a lecture from the Listening Preview Test and an attitude

question about it

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» Listen to part of a conversation from the Listening Preview Test and an attitude

question about it Sample notes on this conversation are also provided (You can

see a script of this conversation in the Answer Key/Audioscript book or online at

http://elt.thomson.com/toefl.)

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Sample Notes:

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Sample Question:

What is the professor's attitude toward the topic that the student wants to write about?

©) He believes students should not write about theories that have not been proved

Choice 1 is not correct After discussing the topic with the student, he says, “It could be a pretty interesting topic.” Choice 2 best answers the question The professor says “just because this theory hasn’t been proven doesn’t mean you couldn't write a perfectly good paper about this topic on the notion that animals can predict earthquakes Why not? It could be pretty interesting But to do a good job, you you'll need to look at some serious studies in the scientific journals ” Choice 3 is not correct The professor says that the woman can “write a perfectly good paper” on a theory that has not been proved Choice 4 is also incorrect

Earlier in the conversation, the professor seems to think that the womans topic is too general However, she then tells him that she is planning to write about a nar- rower topic, and his response is more positive

You will probably see one or two attitude questions in each Listening Section

EXERCISE 11.1 Focus: Answering purpose, method, and attitude questions about conversations DirEcTIons: Listen to the conversations and the questions about them Then mark the answer choices that correctly answer the questions You may take notes on the conversations in the space allowed in the book or on another sheet of paper As you take notes, try to decide what purpose, method, or attitude questions might be asked about the conversations You may use your notes to help you answer the questions

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1 Why does the woman mention her father?

He may help solve the debate team’s financial problem

Because he went to school in England, he suggested that the woman go

there too

He advised his daughter to discuss the problem with Dean Metzger

Because of his own experience, he persuaded his daughter to join the debate

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2 How does the man feel about the woman's appointment with Dean Metzger?

He thinks it will probably hurt the woman's chances of getting what she wants

He thinks it will be useless because he’s heard that the dean is unfair

He thinks it is a great idea as long as President Fisher does not attend the meeting

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3 How does the man explain his geology mid-term exam to the woman?

4 What is the woman’s attitude toward the taste test?

©) She thinks it is amusing

5 Why does the man mention quartz?

6 What is the man’s attitude toward his geology mid-term?

EXERCISE 11.2

Focus: Answering purpose, method, and attitude questions about lectures and

discussions

Directions: Listen to the lectures and discussions and the questions about them

Then mark the answer choices that correctly answer the questions You may take

notes on the lectures/discussions in the space allowed in the book or on another

sheet of paper As you take notes, try to decide what purpose, method, and attitude

questions might be asked about the lectures and discussions You may use your

notes to help you answer the questions

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Notes:

1 Why does Ms Adams mention the battle of Ivy Station?

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2 How does Ms Adams make the class aware of the current condition of the Salt

Run battlefield?

3 What is Ms Adams’s attitude toward re-enactors?

4 What is David's attitude toward the preservation of Civil War battlefields?

He doesn’t think it is necessary to preserve the sites of unimportant battles

He thinks that the only good reason to save battlefields is for re-enactment

He doesn’t agree that the government needs to protect big, important

battlefields

He thinks that laws are needed to control further development of

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Notes:

5 Why does the professor mention the poet Walt Whitman?

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6 Why does the professor mention Harvard University?

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Dickinson?

for her poems

She agrees with those scholars who say that Dickinson was not at all

isolated

She thinks Dickinson had a rather strange life but was a major poet

She believes scholars pay too much attention to Dickenson’s poems and

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He compares European folk art and American folk art

He compares folk art of the seventeenth century with that of the eighteenth century

He compares the views of European folklorists with those of American folklorists

He compares folk art created for commercial reasons to that created for artistic reasons

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Why does the professor mention wooden carousel horses?

How does the professor explain the concept of “visual literacy”?

Why does the professor mention the sign for the King’s Inn?

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Why does the professor mention the sign painter William Rice?

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Replay questions ask you to focus on a short portion of a conversation or lecture that you just listened to You see the photograph of the speaker(s) again, and you hear (but you dont read) a few lines of the conversation or lecture a second time

An icon of headphones 4) tells you when you will hear the replayed section

Replay questions can be phrased in a number of ways:

Why does say this? @) What does mean when s/he says this? @)

What does imply when s/he says this? GD

Replay questions ask for various types of information

Some of these questions ask you about the speaker’s motivation for mentioning certain information in the lecture The answers usually begin with an infinitive explaining possi-

ble purposes, such as “To explain ” or “To summarize ” or “To indicate ,”

and so on

Some of these questions ask you about language “functions”: Is the speaker apologizing? Changing the subject? Complaining? Clarifying? Asking for more information? Making a suggestion? Expressing doubt or uncertainty? Interrupting? Showing impatience?

Some of these questions ask you what the speaker means or implies when s/he says something These questions often ask you about an idiom or some other set expression that the speaker uses

Example:

Student A

I’m going to ask Michael if he’ll help me with these problems

Student B Save your breath He’s way too busy this week

The idiom “Save your breath” means “Don’t waste your time.”

Some of these questions ask you about language that can have different meanings

in different circumstances The context of the conversation or lecture as well as the speaker's tone of voice, stress on a certain word or phrase, or intonation, tells you which meaning the speaker intends

Here are four short conversations that all use the phrase “I’m sorry,” but in each

of the four sentences, the speaker’s intention is different

Listen to these four conversations in the Audio Program q)

In the first conversation, the student is apologizing for turning in his assignment late and saying that he will not do so again in the future

In the second conversation, the student does not understand the phrase “the Krebs cycle” and is asking the professor to repeat the phrase

Tiêu đề	Purpose, method, and attitude questions
Chuyên ngành	TOEFL iBT Listening
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