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IBT TOEFL INTERMEDIATE

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IBT TOEFL AND IBT TOEFL CLASS?

IBT

What? Who? Where?

IBT TOEFL(HTTP://WWW.ETS.ORG/TOEFL/IBT/ABOUT)

What? The TOEFL iBT test

measures your ability to use and understand

English at the university level. And it evaluates how well

you combine your listening, reading,

speaking and writing skills to perform academic tasks.

Who?1. Studying abroad

2. Scholarship3. Applying for visa4. Tracking progress

5. Enrolling at a language program

Where?IBT Test Centers

(visit ITC’s Website: http://www.itc-indonesia.com/

)

COURSE OUTLINEACADEMIC IBT INTERMEDIATE

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

• This is a preparation class for students who intend to take the official TOEFL iBT test provided by ETS (Educational Testing Service)• This course is recommended only for students who have finished and passed the General English course as prerequisite skills.

GENERAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Students will be familiar with the type of contents, kinds of questions, and tasks encountered in TOEFL iBT test.• Students will improve

their integrated academic skills in English, while building test-taking confidence.

SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• In listening, students will be able to improve their academic listening skills, which cover a whole variety of styles and topics mostly on academic situations.

• In reading, students will be able to sharpen their critical reading skills by integrating and organizing information taken either from listening excerpt or the reading passage itself.

• In speaking, students will be able to build their confidence and improve as well their communicative skills in academic environment.

• In writing, students will be able to compose a well-developed and organized essay with correct pattern, detailed examples, correct grammar, and varied vocabulary.

TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS

Lecturer

• Explaining, discussing, giving exercises, giving assignments, facilitating

Students

• Completing tasks, homework

• Listening actively, Reading, Writing, Taking notes

• Participating in Group discussions

COURSE REQUIREMENT

• General English

CLASS POLICY

Attendance: Presence,

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Electronic devices

Exams: Mid-Term, Final,

Remedial, Make up

Leaving classes for

UPH activities

Cheating and

Plagiarism

CLASS POLICY

1. Attendance: Students must come on time. No more admission into class is allowed after fifteen (15) minutes of late arrival, and the student will be marked absent.

2. Clothing: Students must come in proper clothing and are not allowed to wear sandals.

3. Electronic Devices: Students must switch off their personal electronic devices during class.

4. Exam Policy: 85 % of minimum attendance is strictly required before a student can sit for the Final Exam.

5. Leaving classes: Students who leave classes by official appointment from the University to partake in national or international competitions on behalf of the university must perform assignments to be given by the lecturer to make up for the missing classes.

6. Students who engage in cheating and plagiarism during exams or in performing their assignments will be declared “fail” with an F mark and may not sit for remedial exams.

7. Remedial exams may be given to students with a final F mark on the condition that he/she meets the required 85% of minimum attendance. The highest mark that a student can obtain after remedial exams is C-.

8. Make-up exams may be held for students who fall ill or mourn the death of a member of his/her core family on the examination day, provided that the student can authenticate it with a piece of administrative evidence, such the original copy of medical (laboratory) examination reports, hospitalization, or death attestation from the authorities with an original stamp mark, together with an attestation letter from the student’s parents.

• Textbook• Audio CD• Computer Lab• Internet/

websites• Journals/

newspapers

MEDIA

TEXTBOOK

• NorthStar: Building Skills for the TOEFL(R) iBT: Intermediate, by John Beaumont, Pearson-Longman

TOPICS

1. Introduction and Course outline2. Unit 1: Advertising – Skimming and Scanning3. Unit 2: Extreme Sports – Making Inferences4. Unit 3: Fraud – Using Context Clues5. Unit 4: Story Telling – Identifying and Using Rhetorical Structure6. Unit 5: Language – Identifying Main Ideas and Details + Simulation Practice 1 (Independent Skills)7. KAT 1 – Quiz 1: Independent Skills + Reading Assignment8. Mid-Exam (UTS) – Independent Skills – TOEFL IBT Online

TOPICS

9. Unit 6: Tourism; Unit 7: Humor – Paraphrasing and summarizing10. Unit 8: Fashion – Comparing and Contrasting11. Unit 9: Punishment; Unit 10: Marriage – Using Detailed Examples; Cohesive Devices12. KAT 2: Quiz 2: Integrated Skills 13. Review – Simulation Practice 214. Final Exam (UAS) – Independent and Integrated Skills

ASSESSMENTS

KAT 1 (15%)

Independent Skills Quizzes

KAT 2 (15%)

Integrated SkillsDaily assignments (10); Group Presentations (5)

UTS (30%)

Online TOEFL test

Independent skills

UAS (40%)

Online TOEFL test

Integrated and Independent skills

READING ASSIGNMENT

• Read and analyze 1 academic article.• Share at least 5 interesting points• Submit softcopy!

PRESENTATIONS

• Submit the softcopy of the powerpoint presentation• Individual

Presentation• 1’

presentation• 4/5 people per

session.

EVALUATION

• KAT 1: 15 %• Quizzes 10%• Speaking task 5%

• KAT 2• Daily Assignments 10%• Reading task 5%

• UTS 30% (Independent Skills)• UAS 40% (Integrated Skills)