How to take notes for TOEFL listening, and how to take notes for the new TOEFL test?

Write down the key words of the whole article first, usually mentioned at the beginning of the lecture or dialogue, and if you have a dialogue, write down what the problem is discussed by yourself, and the lecture is what the article (basically an expository text) is about.

Then memorize the details, preferably one or two words per sentence, to make sure you'll remember what the sentence is about when you see the prompt.

But first you have to understand, if you don't understand anything, it's all for nothing. We can listen to Chinese and take notes at the same time, so as long as there is no problem with listening, it is no problem to take notes. This requires a lot of patient practice, one by one, one sentence at a time, one sentence at a time, and one word at a time to understand.

After listening, everything is very simple, and you can memorize the text without taking notes. Notes are only an aid to listening.

Listening note-taking skills.

1.Identify the core topics within the record.

There will be a short introduction before the IBT listening begins, and then there will be some on-screen listening content that will help us identify the core topics of the listening section below. For example, listen to a conversation between a professor and student in a biology classFrom this introduction, we can know the following scene of the dialogue:

biology class, there will be a ** at the end, and the text in it is: friends of the earth, biology classThere will also be a ** of the content of the dialogue.

From these texts and **, it can be inferred that the subject of this dialogue is a structure related to the human planet, so that the organization will be primarily responsible for environmental issues. Determining the theme can allow the candidate's hanging heart to slowly land. The text and hints given by the long dialogue that follows are similar to the dialogue.

2.Record the details.

Once you've identified the core topic, all you need to do is record the details related to it, the main details are what, when, where, who, why, and how. Pay attention to recording the information after the introductory words and introductory sentences in conversations and speeches, for example, first...let’s look at the ..

now, let’s move on to ..in the nest part of lecture, i‘d like to talk about...

3.Specific recording methods.

1) Mainly record real words: nouns, verbs, adjectives. This time the words contain a lot of information, and they are also the core words for stress and repetition.

2) Shorthand with abbreviations, symbols, and abbreviations, e.g. q=question，ltd.

limited, +=and/plus , =question ，/=or。In addition, you can use some other shorthand symbols that you are only familiar with to record important information.

Of course, mastery of these principles requires a foundation of hard work and vocabulary.

Remembering verbs, nouns, and key points will generally be raised, paused, stressed, and repeated.

Take notes based on listening logic.

Listening and listening is about listening first, not taking notes. I don't understand it, and no matter how much I write, I don't have a clue. Practice listening first, then practice taking notes.

TOEFL note-taking tip 1: Write less and draw more.

Drawing straight lines and arrows is always much faster than writing letters and Chinese characters, and the image is vivid, which is equivalent to the "half-finished" of notes, which helps us to quickly associate the scene we just heard when we listen to the listening and do the questions, and we can read our own notes while reading the notes in the spoken language.

TOEFL note-taking technique 2: Fewer words and more meaning.

Be sure to develop the habit of not writing the whole word in the note of a word, in Chinese, as long as we write a word in the phrase, we can associate this phrase, and the same is true in English. For example, "address" can write a "address", and "Qingdao" can write a "qing"; The same can be done for English words, "address" can be written as "adrs", "qingdao" can be written as "qd", and so on.