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TOEFL Listen and Repeat practice

Listen to short academic sentences and repeat each one aloud. Up to 7 sentences per set, ~2-minute timer.

Set 01Listen and Repeat

Campus Library Visit

Tall windows rise high above the reading room.

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Set 02Listen and Repeat

Biology Lab Session

A woman in a white lab coat is working at the bench.

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Set 03Listen and Repeat

Bicycle Repair Shop

A bicycle seat sits on a metal stand near the wall.

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Set 04Listen and Repeat

Pottery Studio Wheel

A wide bowl of clay is spinning on the wheel.

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Set 05Listen and Repeat

Woodworking Workshop

Many hand tools hang in rows on a wooden wall.

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Set 06Listen and Repeat

Hotel Lobby Check In

A long wooden desk stands in the middle of the lobby.

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Set 07Listen and Repeat

Laundromat in the Evening

A long row of washing machines lines the blue wall.

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Set 08Listen and Repeat

Bus Ride at Sunset

Passengers are sitting quietly in rows on the bus.

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Set 09Listen and Repeat

University Lecture Hall

Students are sitting in long curved rows of wooden benches.

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Set 10Listen and Repeat

Camping Under the Stars

A bright campfire burns on the sand.

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About the TOEFL Listen and Repeat task

Listen and Repeat is a TOEFL Speaking task about accuracy. You see a picture of a setting — a library, a lab, a bike shop — and hear a series of short sentences about it. After each one you say it aloud, exactly as you heard it. Sentences get longer as the set goes on, so the last ones test how much you can hold in memory.

Each set has up to 7 sentences. What counts is how accurately and clearly you reproduce each sentence: every word, in order, with understandable pronunciation and natural rhythm.

Common mistakes: paraphrasing instead of repeating ("the students study" for "students are studying"), dropping small words such as articles and prepositions, and swallowing word endings like -s and -ed. Listen for the meaning of the sentence rather than word by word — meaning is easier to remember than a string of sounds.

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