All right.
So I want to talk a little bit about how they create multiple choice questions and answers, how they
actually create multiple choice questions and answers.
I want to talk about that a little bit, please.
All right.
Some people are not clear about how they create questions.
Questions questions are created from one or two sentences in the script.
That's where that's where questions are.
That's where questions are created from from one or two, from one or two sentences in the script.
And so it's a really good idea sometimes to look at the transcript in the back of the book and look
at how they form the questions, look at how they form the questions.
Because one thing you'll notice is they use one or two sentences from from the audio to form the question.
And then directly after that they say the answer choice.
And so if you learn and see how questions are created, you'll you'll do much better in terms of being
able to listen for the answer.
Now, in terms of answers, answers almost always follow the key words from the questions.
So that's why underlying the keywords and the questions is so important.
Is so, so important.
Because when you underline the keywords from the questions, you're going to be able to listen for those
keywords.
And then when you hear them, they'll say the answer choice.
And so a lot of students are not clear about really how to create questions and answers.
And and that's really important to understand.
So in terms of overall strategy, when it comes to multiple choice questions, it really comes down
to synonyms and paraphrasing.
It really comes down to synonyms and paraphrasing and in terms of synonyms and paraphrasing.
The better you are.
The better you are at this scale.
The better you're going to do on the listening section of the exam.
Understanding synonyms and understanding paraphrasing is what the child's reading section is all about.
And that's what the aisles listening section is all about.
You have to be able to understand that for reading and listening because on field the blind questions
for listening, they deal with synonyms.
You have to be able to recognize a synonym or paraphrase of the language before or after the blank line.
If you do that, you'll hear the answer choice every single time for multiple choice questions.
You have to be able to find find the paraphrasing of what they said in the audio.
If you're able to find the paraphrasing of what they said in the audio, then you're going to find the
correct answer choice every single time.
So what I'm going to go through now is just two different types of practice that you can do at home
to be able to get better at recognizing synonyms and paraphrasing and this this practice that we're
going to go through, the first practice that we're going to go through involves listening to an audio
in terms of having a list of of a list of keywords from questions and listening for the the synonym
or the paraphrase of that language.
So I'm going to ask everybody right now, I'm going to look and see what questions are in the chat box.
But I'm going to ask you right now, please do not do not ask a question in the chat box while this
audio is playing.
Do not do that.
All right.
Because what it does is it makes the makes the screen pop up for some people.
And it's a distraction.
So please don't do that.
Look, I'm I'm going to I'm going to look at any questions I can answer right now.
And after that, you know, for right now, just stop.
I see some people are asking questions because they're late coming to class.
The class is recorded.
Whoever responds to that?
Thank you.
You don't.
You can't.
You don't have permission to record.
Gone deep in terms of Section four.
I'm going to go over that in terms of multiple choice questions.
I'm going to go over that.
In terms of does every question have equal weight?
Yes, it does have equal weight.
Yes.
On the computer based test you can highlight.
If there are some there are some videos on YouTube from from from the British Council that show you
how to highlight.
If you have trouble finding them, ask me in the Udemy course and I will show you the videos to show
you how to highlight on the computer based test.
Yeah, I know.
In terms of the rules.
Normally I would have done that beforehand, but I just thought about doing it 30 minutes ago.
That's why I just put it like that.
All right.
So one more time before we get started, I'm going to reiterate about the rules.
Just go to the just a couple of rules.
Don't ask questions when the audio is playing.
Most of your questions about recording and and will it be recording is in the rules.
So just pay attention to that.
Go up to the beginning of the chat box and read the rules.
Next time I will give the rules in advance OC.
Oh yeah.
I wanted to go over this also in terms of how they create paraphrasing for multiple choice questions.
They use synonyms and they use, of course, paraphrasing to do it.
Sometimes they'll change the word form to create paraphrasing, and other times they'll change the grammatical
structure to create paraphrasing.
What I mean by grammatical structure is very often in the listening section, they'll switch between
active and passive voice.
They'll switch between active and passive voice.
And like I said.
You'll see the question.
When you see the question is one simple sentence.
But in the end, when you hear it in the audio, it'll be two sentences or you'll be it'll be formed
in a compound sentence.
And so to increase the difficulty, they do these three different things to create paraphrasing, to
challenge students in terms of their listening.
In terms of tackling and getting better better at paraphrasing.
It's a good idea to create study synonym tables.
And I'm going to go over that a little bit later on in terms of creating study synonym tables.
But creating synonym tables is a really, really great idea to get better at your paraphrasing.
And if you're in the Udemy course and you see lectures 15 to 17 lectures 15 to 17, go over how to create
these synonym tables.
I mentioned about your overall ability studying vocabulary synonym list also helps in terms of tackling
paraphrasing.
Using the transcript.
A lot of students really just waste the transcript that's in the back of the Cambridge books.
If you really pay attention to the transcript, if you do that and read through the transcripts of the
audio and look at how they paraphrase the answer choices, you're going to get much better at this skill.
And then of course you want to practice recognizing when paraphrasing is occurring.
So coming up really soon, I'm going to talk more about practicing when when, when paraphrasing is
occurring.
I'm going to go over an exercise about that and also an exercise about utilizing the transcript to to
see how how paraphrasing is occurring.