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- Greg Malivuk
- gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- TOEFL: 4 sections, 30 points each (120 total), 3.5 hours total
- 1 reading: 54-72 minutes, 3-4 passages, 10 questions about each passage
- 2 listening: 40-60 minutes, 2-3 conversations (5 Qs) and 3-4 lectures/discussions (6 Qs)
- (10-minute break)
- 3 speaking: 20 minutes, 4 tasks (recorded on the computer), 1 independent + 3 integrated
- (Questions 1 and 5 from the old version will no longer be used.)
- 4 writing: 55 minutes, 2 tasks, 20+30 minutes of writing time
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- - If you have the shorter reading, you’ll have the longer listening (and vice versa).
- - The additional passages in the longer version are experimental. They won’t affect your score (but you won’t know which ones they are).
- - There is no penalty for incorrect answers, so it’s always best to guess.
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- https://www.toeflresources.com/changes-to-the-toefl-in-2018-and-2019
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- You can find information about some schools at http://www.toeflgoanywhere.org/search-who-accepts-toefl
- However, that site says to contact many of them directly.
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- Speaking Section: 4 tasks, 17 minutes, 3m45s of speaking time.
- 1 (old 2) independent, choice question - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
- 2 (old 3) integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation - 30/60
- 3 (old 4) integrated R/L/S, academic text and lecture - 30/60
- 4 (old 6) integrated L/S, academic lecture - 20/60
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- For the independent task, you can get ideas and practice with “would you rather” type questions.
- https://conversationstartersworld.com/would-you-rather-questions/
- In the 15 seconds of preparation time, you can write a mini-outline:
- answer
- - reason 1
- - reason 2
- “Would you rather find your true love or a suitcase with five million dollars inside?”
- true love
- - forever
- - ???
- suitcase
- - spend it on loved ones
- - more free time for love
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- Your full response can be organized like this:
- 1 Introduction: state your preference (in your own words)
- 2 Lead-in: “I have two reasons for this preference.”
- 3 First point: “First, I already have loved ones I can spend the money on.”
- 4 Detail/example: “I don’t need to find my ‘true love’ if I can make the people I already love happy by helping them out with money.”
- 5 Second point
- 6 Detail/example
- (7 Conclusion - if you have time: “In conclusion, because I can spend it on loved ones and because money would give me free time to meet my true love, I would prefer to find five million dollars.”)
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- p. 116-117 of your book has a summary chart for the independent speaking task
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- Transitions or transition signals are words and phrases that show how ideas are connected and that lead the audience into the next point you make.
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- p. 49 gives some additional speaking advice in the task outline.
- https://www.ets.org/s/toefl/pdf/toefl_speaking_rubrics.pdf describes score levels
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- ETS 2 sample questions
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- - If the independent (speaking or writing) prompt is about which “life choice” is better, start by thinking through a few typical situations where one action can be better or worse than another:
- Does one option cost more than the other?
- Does it help or hurt in different areas of life?
- education
- career
- relationships (friends or family)
- liesure activities
- necessary activities (chores, taxes, etc.)
- budget
- responsibilities
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- Task 2 (old 3)
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- In the passage, make sure to identify
- - The change (may be past or future, real or proposed)
- - 1 or 2 reasons given for that change
- In the conversation, make sure to identify
- - Which speaker has the strong opinion
- - What is their opinion?
- - Why? (Usually their reasons relate to the reasons in the text.)
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- Task 3 (old 4)
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- In the passage
- - Find the definition for the main concept
- - Look for any general examples (In ETS 2.2, these are the two directions: product -> entertainment and entertainment -> product)
- In the lecture
- - Identify the two main points the speaker gives.
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- Task 4 (old 6)
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- This is similar to the previous task, but the general definition will be included as part of the lecture instead of in a text.
- - If the details are about an experiment, the two “points” can be methods and results or can be group 1 results and group 2 results.
- - When it’s an experiment, it can be a good idea to include a conclusion about how the experiment supports or contradicts the original idea.
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- Writing Section
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- Integrated
- - 3 minutes to read a text (you’ll see it again while you write, but not while you listen)
- - listen to a lecture which usually supports the opposite viewpoint
- - You write about how the points from the lecture relate to the points from the reading
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- Optional Homework: Go through a number of questions from https://conversationstartersworld.com/would-you-rather-questions/ and try to write a mini-outline and give a 45 second response to them
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