TOEFL Listening Practice 1 Iroquois Tree (Best my Test)

• Different kinds of trees used for building canoes

• Various methods of Native American transportation

• The value of birch trees to some Native American groups

• The trading of birch wood products by Europeans in North America

• It repels water

• It can be eaten

• It is easy to fold.

• It has a rough texture

There was a network of waterways where they lived.

• Snowy winters made land travel too difficult

• Some Native American groups sold their canoes to other groups

• Canoe travel helped form relationships between groups of Native Americans

• To illustrate how far news of the Iroquois canoe design had traveled

• To explain the kinds of objects the Iroquois received in exchange for their canoes

To support her point about how efficient the Iroquois canoe design was

• To emphasize that the Iroquois were the first settlers in that region

• To share what he knows about birch wood

• To point out a misprint in the textbook

• To bring up a point from a previous lecture

To request more explanation from the professor