Connecting Content

Identify the relationships among ideas in the lecture. TOEFL Listening Connecting Content questions ask test takers to show that they understand the relationships among ideas presented in the lecture. These are the rarest type of listening questions, and they usually take one of two forms. Some will ask the test takers to arrange information in a chart or table[much like the Table questions in the reading section] while others will ask them to make inferences about the relationships among things mentioned in the lecture. They may ask test takers to infer a cause-and-effect relationship, predict an outcome, extrapolate some additional information, draw a logical conclusion, or put events in sequential order.