Understanding natural English
This feature, which appears just before the mini-tests, focuses on two impoi'Ulnt challenges learners face in the listening part of the test. Firstly.it aims to draw attention to one of the main factors that prevents learners from understanding spoken English - the fact that
some sounds change or are dropped altogether, and that some words can sound completely different to how they are spelled.These short gap-f ill listening activities exemplify and explain these differences. Secondly, the new TOEIC test features speakers from the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia .To help learners become familiar with these accents, each of the sentences in this section will be spoken by speakers from three different countries.