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Improve your TOEIC Listening score with practice covering Photographs (Part 1), Question-Response (Part 2), Conversations (Part 3), and Talks (Part 4). Get instant scoring and detailed explanations to strengthen your listening skills.
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TOEIC Listening has 100 questions across Photographs, Question-Response, Conversations, and Talks. English AIdol provides original workplace-English listening practice.
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Improve your TOEIC Listening score with practice covering Photographs (Part 1), Question-Response (Part 2), Conversations (Part 3), and Talks (Part 4). Get instant scoring and detailed explanations to strengthen your listening skills.
Free mini practice
Practise response relevance, speaker purpose, and action details with three short workplace scenarios.
How to try it: Ask a partner or text-to-speech tool to read each stimulus once while you look away. Select an answer before revealing the explanation.
1. Part 2 — Question-Response
Why was the client presentation moved to Friday?
Answer or self-check: A. The design team needs another day to update the charts.
Why: “Why” asks for a reason. A supplies a cause, while B answers where and C does not address the schedule change.
2. Part 3 — Conversation
Woman: The printer on the third floor is out of paper again. Man: I ordered two boxes yesterday, but delivery is not until this afternoon. Woman: I will use the copy centre for these contracts, then.
Answer or self-check: B. Print the contracts at the copy centre.
Why: Her final sentence states her next action. The order has already been placed, and nobody suggests cancelling it.
3. Part 4 — Talk
Attention passengers: the 6:20 train to Lakeside will depart from Platform 8 instead of Platform 5. Boarding will begin in ten minutes. Passengers needing step-free access should use the lift beside the ticket office.
Answer or self-check: The Lakeside train will depart from Platform 8 instead of Platform 5.
Why: The departure time remains 6:20; the changed detail is the platform. The lift instruction applies only to accessibility needs.
The TOEIC Listening section has 100 questions across 4 parts: Photographs, Question-Response, Conversations, and Talks. It takes about 45 minutes.