Type 4: Questions about the Speaker’s Attitude • Description: This type of question also focuses on pragmatic understanding. Attitude questions ask you to identify a speaker’s feelings or opinions about something, based on what they say or their tone of voice . • Important points: Some of these questions will replay an excerpt from the conversation or lecture. The excerpt from the conversation or lecture will not be written— you will only hear it . • Examples: What is the professor’s attitude toward X? / What does the woman mean when she says this? (replay) Type 5: Questions about Organization • Description: This type of question focuses on connecting information from a lecture or a conversation. Organization questions are usually asked about the lectures. Some ask about how the content of the lecture is organized, while others ask about the relationship between two parts of the lecture. • Important points: The questions often focus on the examples provided by the professor in the lecture. • Examples: Why does the professor mention X? / How is the discussion organized? Type 6: Connecting Content Questions • Description: This type of question also focuses on connecting information from the conversation or in the lecture. Connecting Content questions ask you to make connections between different sentences or ideas in a lecture or conversation. • Important points: You may be asked to identify steps in a process, recognize cause/effect relationships, classify items into categories, or make a prediction. Or you may be asked to organize the ideas you heard in a different way from the way they were presented in the lecture or conversation . • Examples: What can be inferred about X? / What is the likely outcome of doing X before Y? • Completing a table or chart: Sometimes, Connecting Content questions involve completing a table or a chart. You made need to drag and drop (that is, move) response options into the correct order, or select “yes” or “no” about some topics listed in a table or grid . • Example: Based on the conversation, indicate whether each of the following is offered by health clubs. Select the correct boxes.
Health Club Offerings Low membership fees High-quality facilities Exercise classes Positive self-image Special presentations
Yes
No
Type 7: Making Inferences Questions • Description: This type of question also focuses on connecting information from the
• conversation or in the lecture . Inference questions ask you to understand what a speaker means when the meaning was not explicitly stated . For these questions, you need to figure out the meaning from the facts you hear in the conversation or lecture . • Important point(s): Some of these questions will replay an excerpt from the conversation or lecture. The excerpt from the conversation or lecture will not be written— you will only hear it . • Examples: What does the professor imply when she says this? (replay) / What will the student probably do next?
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