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LISTENING 47

CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS

■ Practice active listening techniques, like using non￾verbal responses.

■ Schedule listening skill builders into your study plan.

■ Go to places where English is spoken regularly.

■ Listen to radio or TV programs or go to the movies

regularly.

■ Review how lectures are structured; listen to a lecture or

long program.

■ Listen for idiomatic expressions in everyday

conversation; look up those that you don’t know.

■ Main ideas are general statements that a speaker wants

to say something about a topic.

■ Supporting details are specific examples and facts that

back up a main idea.

■ Inferences are what a speaker suggests or implies but

does not necessarily say.

■ Tone is a speaker’s attitude or mood expressed in speech.

■ If you are taking the computer-based exam, know its

special features and the question types specific to that

test.

■ Review the differences between the computer- and

paper-based tests.