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So now we're going to talk about I'm going to show you how to really use the transcript to get better

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at recognizing synonyms and paraphrasing when it happens.

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So let's say, for example, you are you just took a listening test and you just completed a listening

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test.

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And what you don't want to do, which is what a lot of students do, is they will just jump from doing

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one listening practice test and then say, okay, I got a seven right now.

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I'm going to jump and do another one.

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And I got I got five right that time.

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I'm going to jump and do another one.

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And really, you're not really utilizing all the abilities that you have from just one listening test.

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So one thing that you want to do is always when you do a listening test, go back and look at the paraphrasing

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and the synonyms that are happening between the questions and the audio track.

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And the best way to do that is by using the transcript, using the transcript.

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The transcript is going to be found in the back of the book.

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All of the audio, let's say it has a transcript.

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All right, one moment.

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I have a couple of questions.

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All right.

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Somebody asked me a question about only a short lecture.

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Yeah, short lectures.

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I don't think.

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I don't think I mean, you could listen to long lectures also, but, you know, on the exam you're

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listening to really short lectures, especially in part number four.

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But you can listen to to you can listen to long lectures also.

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So here's an example of looking at paraphrasing when it happens, right?

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You have the listening questions on the left hand side.

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This is the transcript on the right hand side.

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And so what I'm looking at the questions and I'm looking at the transcript.

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What I'm doing is I'm looking for the paraphrasing and the synonyms that are happening, because the

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way it works everybody is if you hear the synonym of the language that's before or after the blank line,

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then you hear the answer choice.

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If you don't hear the synonym.

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Excuse me.

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If you don't hear the synonym, then you don't hear the answer choice.

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That's the way it works.

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That's the way it works.

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You have to be able to hear the synonym and then you will hear the answer choice.

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So for example.

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We have the word provides.

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We have the word provides.

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And then if we look over here, we're seeing they're using the word give.

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So when you're listening, you have to be listening for a synonym of the word provide.

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If you hear the word give and you recognize as a synonym, then you hear the word shelter.

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And you know, that's the answer choice.

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But they also use other synonyms wide range of species, creatures like birds and bats.

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You know, here in 32.

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You see provide and then you see extracted from the leaves, which means as provided by the leaf.

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So, you know, that's the language there, right?

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Oil extracted from eucalyptus leaves.

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Right.

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And so here for 33 we see making and it says the construction that's the synonym language.

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Feed on and eat insects, settle on the leaves and then eat their way.

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So what's happening with Field of Blank questions is you have to understand what they're testing.

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They are testing your ability.

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They're testing your ability to recognize paraphrasing and synonyms.

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That's what they're testing.

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And so that's that's what's really, really important to understand.

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Right.

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So here we can see more of a right here resulting in the growth.

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And he says encourages they encourages grass to grow.

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This is the paraphrasing here.

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This happening.

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Here with number 36.

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Remember earlier I was talking about a situation where there's the rare occasion where you have to make

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an inference, where you have to make an inference.

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And so if you look at number 36, it says make more blank available to the trees.

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Now, if you look at the corresponding sentence, it says, well, one reason is that the fire stops

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the growth of other species, which would consume water needed by the eucalyptus trees.

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So here you're having to make an inference.

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An inference based on what they say right here.

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Make more.

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The answer is make more water available to the trees.

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Great.

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Make more water available to the trees.

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One reason why.

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One reason is the fire stops the growth of other species which would consume water.

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So because the fire is stopping the growth of the other species, it is making more water available

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to the tree.

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You see there, the answer is indirect on number 36.

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And like I said, that rarely, rarely, rarely happens.

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But you want to be aware of when it does happen.

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Number 38, number 37, where they're talking about the quality of and you see affecting the composition

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of again if you don't recognize that when they say affecting the composition is a paraphrasing of the

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quality of then you might not hear that the answer is soil.

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Result in layer two.

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Right here.

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They're playing around with pronouns, with ecosystem.

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He says, a simple one.

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The answer will be simple ecosystem, but, they said, is usually a simple one.

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So they're expecting you to recognize that this this reference pronoun one is referring back to this

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word ecosystem, and that the answer is going to be simple.

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Right.

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So that's what they're doing here.

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All right.

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I have a couple of questions to take.

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Will doing more listening help us become a better listener for the exam?

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Yeah, of course.

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Of course.

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Yes.

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Yeah, of course.

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The better you're listening, the better you're listening.

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The the easier the exam is.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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This next question.

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I don't understand.

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Certainly also need learning library learning vocabulary.

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Oh, okay.

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I think I think the person named.

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Bye Bye.

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Wow.

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Somebody named Bye Bye.

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The person named Bye Bye is responding to the person named Pearling OC.

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All right.

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Bye bye and pearling.

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All right.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So bye bye.

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Bye bye.

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Yes, you're right.

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It's very helpful.

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So I think that, you know, really going through and looking at the questions and the transcript and

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learning and looking at the synonyms and paraphrasing this happening.

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Helps you to get better at recognizing this in real time, because very often you're getting answers

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wrong or missing answer choices because you were not able to recognize when the paraphrasing and the

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synonyms were occurring.

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And therefore you miss the answer choice.

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Right.

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So what we're looking at here.

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With this one here.

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And one thing that you want to be able to do, let me show you.

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See, what I did was I pulled out the question, keywords from that, from the questions, and I pulled

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out the synonyms synonym language from the transcript just so I can start looking at how they're playing

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around with the language.

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Because this is the test right here, everybody.

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This is the real test.

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The real test is are you are you are you recognizing these are the key words and are you recognizing

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when they're when they're playing the audio that these are the this is the paraphrasing and synonyms

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that they're using?

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That's the actual test.

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Right.

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Because if you recognize the paraphrasing as synonyms, you hear the answer choice.

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And that's your goal.

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Your goal is to hear the answer choice, not be confused at what may or may not be the answer choice.

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Or is this possible or not possible?

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You recognize, paraphrasing and synonyms.

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It's easy.