TOEFL Listen and Repeat Accuracy: Recreation Center
In this lesson, you’ll practice TOEFL Listen and Repeat with seven original sentences at a student recreation center. You’ll also build vocabulary for facilities, equipment, and procedures while learning how can and must distinguish options from requirements. The Test Tip shows how to recover after a brief hesitation and finish the sentence.
VOCABULARY
Sports facilities vocabulary: Recreation center services
This sports facilities vocabulary describes spaces, equipment, and procedures that staff may explain to visitors.
equipment desk (noun phrase)
The counter where users borrow or return sports equipment. Synonyms: equipment counter, rental desk
A staff member is always at the equipment desk during open hours.
locker room (noun phrase)
A room where people change clothes and store belongings. Synonyms: changing room, changing area
Each locker room has showers, benches, and a drying rack.
multipurpose court (noun phrase)
An indoor playing area used for several sports. Synonyms: sports hall, indoor court
The multipurpose court hosts basketball and badminton sessions.
orientation session (noun phrase)
An introduction explaining how to use a place or service. Synonyms: induction, introductory session
The hospital runs an orientation session for new volunteers each spring.
protective equipment (noun phrase)
Items worn or used to reduce the risk of injury. Synonyms: safety gear, protective gear
Workers wear protective equipment on every construction site.
to check in (phrasal verb)
To report your arrival or register before entering. Synonyms: to register, to report your arrival
Passengers check in two hours before an international flight.
to sign out (phrasal verb)
To record that you have borrowed an item. Synonyms: to borrow, to check out
Staff sign out laptops from the technology office.
to be provided (passive verb phrase)
To be supplied or made available. Synonyms: to be supplied, to be made available
Lunch is provided at the all-day training.
capacity (noun)
The largest number of people a space can hold. Synonyms: maximum number, limit
The lecture hall has a capacity of three hundred students.
supervised (adjective)
Watched or directed by a responsible person. Synonyms: monitored, overseen
Children must be supervised near open water.
GRAMMAR FOCUS
Options and requirements with can and must
Listen and Repeat sentences turn on small function words, and this grammar focus separates the two that decide whether an instruction offers a choice or states a requirement. Use can for an allowed or available action and must for a required action.
Can
[Subject] can [base verb phrase].
In instructions, can presents an action that is allowed or available. Use the base verb without to, and do not add -s after he, she, or it.
You can pay the invoice by bank transfer.
She can collect the parcel from a neighbor.
Must
[Subject] must [base verb phrase].
Use must when the action is required. The verb stays in its base form for every subject.
Applicants must include a contact number.
He must sign the delivery form.
TEST TIP
Recovery
The Campus Library lesson introduced chunking as a way to hold an unfamiliar sentence in complete meaning groups. Repeated restarts in Listen and Repeat can leave too little time to finish the sentence.
If you hesitate, continue from the words you still remember instead of repeatedly restarting the sentence. If a missing word does not return immediately, resume with the next meaning group you remember and finish. Exact repetition remains the goal; continuing helps preserve the rest of the sentence.
Breaking a sentence into meaning groups
time condition
When should I act?
After the glue dries,
main action
What should I do?
attach the frame to the wall
method
How?
with two screws
Continue after a hesitation
Sentence heard
After the glue dries, attach the frame to the wall with two screws.
What to notice
The speaker misses dries but resumes with the next complete meaning group. The omission remains an error; the recovery preserves the rest of the instruction.
TASK PRACTICE
Practice: Seven recreation center sentences
Imagine that you are learning to assist visitors at a university recreation center. Play the complete video and record your repetition of each sentence.
Exam format
Each practice set has seven sentences. You will hear one sentence at a time, once only. After each sentence ends, repeat the complete sentence as accurately and clearly as you can; there is no preparation time. The practice video gives 8, 10, or 12 seconds for each response. Record all seven responses before replaying the prompts or reading the transcripts, then compare each recording with the original.
Review your response
After recording the complete set, compare each recording with the original sentence. Use these checks to find the words and delivery features that need practice.
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What this TOEFL Listen and Repeat practice developed
In this TOEFL Listen and Repeat student recreation center lesson, you practiced seven recreation-center sentences, learned vocabulary for recreation-center spaces, equipment, and procedures, and learned how to use can for allowed or available actions and must for required actions. The Test Tip showed you how to continue from the next complete meaning group after a hesitation instead of repeatedly restarting.
Next, practice seven more Listen and Repeat sentences in the Community Center Listen and Repeat Lesson.
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