tailieunhanh - The complete guide to the toefl test part 50

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the complete guide to the toefl test part 50', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Lesson 12 Replay Questions 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 don t read a few lines of the conversation or lecture a second time. An icon of headphones Q tells you when you will hear the replayed section. Y Replay questions can be phrased in a number of ways Why does say this Q What does mean when s he says this Q What does imply when s he says this Q Replay questions ask for various types of information. . n 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 possible 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 .