TOEFL

Short Course
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I am Merina

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Teacher
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Passing your TOEFL
test
What is TOEFL?
The PBT is a pencil and paper test that is offered for two purposes. One purpose of the PBT is for
placement and progress evaluations. Colleges or other institutions use the PBT to test their students.
What is tested in TOEFL test?
Listening Comprehension
Structure and Written Expression
Reading Comprehension

Sections Questions

Listening 50

Structure 40

Reading 50

How to grade my TOEFL test?

The total score is based on a scale of 310-677
 "As a general rule,

the most successful

man in life is the one
who has the best
information.

Benjamin Disraeli
Formulating Your Strategies

To Be informed
Know what to expect on the TOEFL test. If you are informed, you will not be surprised and
confused on the day of the exam.

To Review
To succeed on the TOEFL, you must have studied English already. It is not possible to achieve
an excellent score if you are just beginning to study English.
It is possible to make a higher score by reviewing what you have already studied, especially
when you concentrate on the type of English that appears most often on the TOEFL.

To Practice
Do a simulation on the items on the TOEFL exam. Try to you understand the directions for each
section.
Learn test strategies as well : how to manage your time on each section, how to eliminate
possible answer choices, and when to guess.

To Evaluate
Estimate your score before you take the test . Take it at the point when you have the best
opportunity to succeed.
Grading your Test

1. Add the tree scores together

2. Divide the sum by three
3. Multiply by ten

4. 51 + 52 + 58 = 161
5. 161 / 3 = 53.7
6. 53.7 x 10 = 537

To Get 450 at least you have to get 25

questions right
1.
Stucture and
Written
Expressionss
 General Strategies

There are two types of questions in this section of the test

1. Structure (1-15)
Each sentence is replaced with a blank and followed by four answer choices
2. Written Expression (16-40)
Each sentence has four words our group of words that have been underlined.
Choose underlined word or group or words that is not correct.

The questions are in linear order. Each type progresses from easy to diffcult.
General Strategies
Know the Structure of a Sentence
Subject Pronouns
Types of pronouns
Subject Object Posessive Indefinite

Singular I Me Mine every, some

You You Yours any, no
She, He, It Her, Him, It Hers, His, Its
Plural We Us Ours -
You You Yours
They Them Theirs

Verb V0, V1, V2, V3, Ving Know your tenses

Object Nouns Singular and Plural Clause Count and Non Count Nouns
Similar Items baggage, clothing, equipments, furniture
Fluids water, coffee, milk, juice
Solids ice, bread, butter, cheese, paper, iron, gold
Gases oxygen, nitrogen, smoke
Particles rice, corn, dirt, flour, salt
Abstraction beauty, advice, information, homework, time
Natural Phenomena weather, fog, heat, rain, snow

Complement Adj, Adv, Preposition

Pay attention to these details . . .

Sentences with one clause

1. Be sure the sentence has a subject and a verb
2. Be careful of objects and prepositions
3. Be careful of appositives
4. Be careful of present participles
5. Be careful of past participles
Sentences with multiple clauses
6. Use coordinate connectors correctly
7. Use adverb time and clause connectors correctly
8. Use other adverb connectors correctly
More sentences with multiple clauses
9. Use noun clause connectors correctly
10.Use noun clause as subject correctly
11.Use adjective clause connectors correctly
12.Use adjective clause as subject correctly
Sentence with reduced clauses
13. Use reduced adjective clause correctly
14. Use reduced adverb clauses correctly
Sentence with inverted subject and verb
15. Replace with question words
16. Replace with place expressions
17. Replace with negatives
18. Replace with conditionals
19. Replace with comparisons
Be sure the sentence has a subject and a
verb
Exercise

Be careful of objects and prepositions

Be careful of appositives
Exercise

Be careful of present participle
Exercise

Be Careful of Past Participles

Be careful of coordinate
connectors

Use adverb time and cause
connectors correctly

Use other adverb connectors

Noun clause connectors

Noun clause as connector and
subject

Adjective Clause Connectors

Adjective Clause
Connectors/Subjects
Use reduced clause correctly

Reduced adverb clause

Invert subject and verb with question
words

Invert with place expressions

Invert with negatives

With conditionals

With comparisons