TOEFL TIP: Listen to English-Language Videos and Music

• Rent videos (turn off the captions!) or go to see an English-language movie.
• Listen to a book on tape in English.
• Listen to music in English and then check your accuracy by finding the lyrics on the Internet (for example, www.lyrics.com).
• Listen to English-language recordings that come with a transcript. Listen to each recording at least three times.
• The first time, take notes about the main ideas you hear.
• The second time, read the transcript and listen for the ideas you wrote down.
• The third time, write down any words or phrases that you didn't understand and look them up.

For more practice listening to various English expressions, try Idioms in English, an interactive program featuring 100 current English idioms from AmEnglish® and ETS®.