The document provides strategies and tips for the Listening, Structure, and Reading sections of the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) exam. The TOEFL measures test takers' ability to use and understand English at the university level. It discusses listening for different grammatical constructs and meanings, ensuring correct grammar and parallel structure, and general reading strategies like previewing, finding main ideas, and increasing reading speed.
The document provides strategies and tips for the Listening, Structure, and Reading sections of the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) exam. The TOEFL measures test takers' ability to use and understand English at the university level. It discusses listening for different grammatical constructs and meanings, ensuring correct grammar and parallel structure, and general reading strategies like previewing, finding main ideas, and increasing reading speed.
The document provides strategies and tips for the Listening, Structure, and Reading sections of the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) exam. The TOEFL measures test takers' ability to use and understand English at the university level. It discusses listening for different grammatical constructs and meanings, ensuring correct grammar and parallel structure, and general reading strategies like previewing, finding main ideas, and increasing reading speed.
Test measures your ability to use and understand English at the university level. LISTENING 1. Focus on the last dialogue. 2. Choose answer with synonyms. 3. Avoid similar sounds. 4. Draw conclusions about who, what, and where. 5. Listen for who and what in passives 6. Listen for who and what with multiple nouns. 7. Listen for negative expressions. 8. Listen for double negative expressions. 9. Listen for “almost negative “ expressions. 10. Listen for negatives with comparatives. 11. Listen for expressions of agreement. 12. Listen for expressions of uncertainty and suggestion. 13. Listen for emphatic expression s of surprise. 14. Listen for wishes. 15. Listen for untrue conditions. 16. Listen for true and three part verbs. 17. Listen for idioms. 18. Strategies of long conversations. 19. Listen for answer in order. 20. Strategies of long talk. 21. Listen for answer in order. STRUCTURE a. Sentences with one clause 1. Be sure the sentence has a subject and a verb. 2. Be careful of objects of prepositions. 3. Be careful of appositives. 4. Be careful of present participles. 5. Be careful of past participles. b. Sentences with multiple clauses 6. Use coordinate connector s correctly. 7. Use adverb time and cause connector s correctly. 8. Use other adverb connector correctly. d. Sentences with reduced clauses. 13. Use reduced adjective clauses correctly. 14. Use reduced adverb clauses correctly. e. Sentences with inverted subjects and verbs. 15. Invert the subject and verb with question words. 16. Invert the subject and verb with place expressions. 17. Invert the subject and verb with negatives. 18. Invert the subject and verb with conditionals. 19. Invert the subject and verb with comparisons. F. Problem with subject /verb agreement 20. Make verbs agree after prepositional phrases. 21. Make verbs agree after expression of quantity. 22. Make inverted verb agree. 23. Make verb agree after certain words. g. Problem with parallel structure. 24. Use parallel structure with coordinate conjunctions. 25. Use parallel structure with paired conjunctions. 26. Use parallel structure with comparisons. h. Problems with comparatives and superlatives. 27. Forms comparatives and superlatives correctly. 28. Use comparatives and superlatives correctly. 29. Use parallel irregular -er, -er structure correctly. i. Problem with the form of verb 30. After have, use the past participle. 31. After be, use the present participle or the past participle. Reading General Key: 1. Do not read reading texts for too long. 2. Notice all the questions contained in a reading and keep in mind the key words. 3. Do not panic if the theme of reading is not a discipline that you mastered. 4. Previewing to find out the topic of reading. 5. Notice the first sentence of a paragraph reading to find out the main idea. 6. Understand the context contained in the reading to know the meaning of certain words. 7. Scan to find specific information related to the query. 8. Gather facts and data in the reading to make inferences. 9. Concentrate during reading text. 10. Increase your reading speed. Thank you