taking the toeic 1 & 2 academic presention

Taking the TOEIC®:

Skills and Strategies

1&2

Tips and Strategies

for

Taking the TOEIC®

Tips and Strategies for

Taking the TOEIC®

In This Presentation:

• Show how to organize a curriculum to prepare

students for taking the TOEIC® Listening and

Reading Test

• Apply key methodologies for assisting students

• Use the principles found in Wendi Shin’s Taking the

TOEIC ® 1 & 2

• We will explore effective tips and strategies for

teaching students preparing for the TOEIC ® Test

• Incorporate poignant activities

Preparing Students

• Maintain parent/teacher communication

• Include all skills

• Provide guidance on developing and supporting knowledge

from the classroom to the real world

• The course should effectively use the available study time

• Provide concrete strategies for handling each individual part of

the test

The Four Strand Method

• Learning through listening and reading

• Leveled material for learner’s with few unfamiliar words

• Learner’s focused on the message of the material

• One quarter of the course time should be spent on

meaning focused output

Meaning-Focused Input

• Meaning-focused output involves learning through speaking and writing

• Learners’ attention should be focused on communicating messages to

others

• They should be speaking and writing about things that they know a lot

about but which stretches their language knowledge

• Telling another learner about yourself or about something that you are

very interested in

• One quarter of the course time should be spent on meaning focused

output

Meaning-Focused Output

Language Focused Learning

• Deliberate learning of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and

discourse structure

• Deliberate attention to language features

• Use of language-learning strategies

Fluency Development

• Learners are encouraged to make the best use of what is

already known

• Developing fluency in the four skills

• Developing speed

• Reinforcing learning

• Reading comprehension depends on the meaning students give to

words

• The more words students know, the more they can read and

understand

• In order to be able to remember new words, students must practice

and apply

Why Is Vocabulary Important?

(How many times do we need to see and practice

new vocabulary and language structures

to be able to remember them)

What Is Reading Comprehension?

Reading Comprehension

Language

Fluency

Meta-cognitionKnowledge

How Do We Teach Reading Comprehension?

The old way…

• Assume that after a student can decode, comprehension needs to be tested• Comprehension improves through the teaching of specific comprehension

skills

Now …

• Students must be taught how to flexibly apply many strategies to truly understand the text

What Do Good Readers Do?

• Use background knowledge to make predictions

• Identify key areas in the text that they are reading and familiar with,

text structures

• Monitor their own comprehension and adjust their reading strategies

if needed

• Use a variety of reading strategies effectively

• Start to form opinions and critical thinking

Reading Skills

How can we get our students to read for meaning?

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Intensive Reading

• Extensive Reading

SKIMMING• Basic understanding or general idea of

input

• Ability to provide basic summary as

output

SCANNING• Specific Information

• Answer specific content based output

INTENSIVE READING• Language focused learning

• Meaning focused input development

EXTENSIVE READING

• Speed and fluency development

Intensive vs. Extensive

Taking the TOEIC ® Book Overview

• Taking the TOEIC ® 1 & 2: Skills and Strategies is intended for pre-

intermediate and intermediate students of English who need to start

preparation for the TOEIC ® Test

• The book is divided into four sections, or chapters, dealing with the

areas tested in TOEIC ® :

• Chapter 1- Listening Practice

• Chapter 2- Grammar Practice

• Chapter 3- Reading Practice

• Chapter 4- Practice Test

• Support

Key Features:

• General information about the TOEIC®

• Tips on how to complete each section of the test

• Clear & precise grammar explanations

• Mini practice tests in each section

Taking the TOEIC ® Key Features

www.compasspub.com/TOEICSKILLS

The TOEIC® Listening and

Reading Test

with

Taking the TOEIC®: Skills and Strategies

About TOEIC ® :

• TOEIC® stands for Test of English for

International Communication. This book

focuses on preparation for the TOEIC ®

Listening and Reading Test

• The listening section tests the ability to

understand spoken English

• The reading section tests the knowledge of

grammar and vocabulary usage and the

ability to read and understand short passages

Information about the TOEIC® Listening and

Reading Test

Information about the TOEIC® Listening and

Reading Test

TOEIC® Test Structure:

• Section 1 Listening Test

Listening Total: 100 questions

Time: 45 minutes

• Section 2 Reading Test

Reading Total: 100 questions

Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Information about the TOEIC® Test

Level Evaluation Guidelines

ACan usually communicate adequately as a non-

native speaker.

BIs capable of communicating appropriately in

most situations.

CHas sufficient knowledge for daily activities and

conducting business within certain limits.

DIs capable of the minimal communication in

ordinary conversation.

E Is not able to communicate adequately.

730

860

470

220

990

Let’s Explore the TOEIC®

Listening and Speaking Test

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Taking the TOEIC®:

Tips and Strategies

• In this section, test takers will have the chance to show how well

they understand spoken English

• There are four parts to this section with special directions for

each part

• 100 total listening questions

• 45 minutes to complete the section

Listening Section

The TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test

• Students are shown 10 pictures

• Test takers are to look and identify words

and expressions that best describe the

picture

• Test takers are to choose from 4 multiple

choice questions


Listening Section: Part 1 – Picture Description

Tips:

Focus on identifying key

factors in the image

Who?

-A man

-A woman

Where?

-Indoors

-Next to a computer

What?

-A screwdriver

-A computer

-Repairing

Taking the TOEIC ®: Tips and Strategies


Strategies:

• Attempt to predict the vocabulary

• Students will learn to brainstorm and become

familiar locations like homes, the workplace, and

public places

• Follow a subject-verb pattern

• Be aware of misleading questions



• Questions or statements are provided and three

responses are spoken in English


Listening Section: Part 2 – Questions & Responses

Tips:

• Do, does, did, are, is, will, can—usually

need a “yes” or “no” answer

Strategies:

• Focuses on commonly tested question types

• Provides assistance in identifying appropriate

answers for each type

• Assume the is try to trick the test taker



• Conversations between two people are spoken

• Test takers must answer three questions about what the speakers

say in each conversation

• The best response to each question is to be marked with the letter

(A), (B), (C), or (D) on the answer sheet


Listening Section: Part 3 – Short Conversations

Tips:

• Read all answer before making a choice

• Have students preparing for the test by

listening to the dialog from Taking the

TOEIC®, and imagine where the

speakers are located

Strategies:

• Listen to different conversations in various environments

• Use each question to help answer related questions



• Test takers will hear some short talks given by a single speaker

• They will be asked to answer three questions about what the speaker

says

• The best response to each question should be selected, by marking

one of the following letters (A), (B), (C), or (D) on the answer sheet

• The talks will be spoken only one time and will not be printed in the test

book


Listening Section: Part 4 – Short Talks

Tips:

• Test takers must listen closely to the introduction preceding the

talk. It will tell them what type of information they will hear

(news report, weather report, etc.)

Strategies:

• Between listening passages, test takers should

skim questions to predict what they will hear

• They are then asked to listen to the provided test

questions


Listening Section: Part 4 – Short Talks

• In this section of the test, test takers have the chance to show how well

they understand written English

• There are three parts to this section, with special directions for each part

Reading Section

TOEIC® Reading Test:

Section 2 - Reading Test

• Reading Total: 100 questions

• Time: 1 hour 15 minutes


• A word or phrase is missing in each of the sentences

• Four answer choices are given below each sentence

• Select the best answer to complete the sentence


Reading Section: Part 5 – Incomplete Sentences

Tips:

• Inform students that Incorrect spelling is

never part of an option in TOEIC®

answers

Strategies:

• Time management skills are critical for this

section

• Look at the choices, eliminate any that are

the wrong part of speech, and then read the

sentence(silently) with each remaining word

in the gap


Reading Section: Part 5 – Incomplete Sentences

• Test takers Read texts in which a word or phrase is missing in some of the

sentences and identify content by selecting the appropriate answer

• Four answer choices are provided to choose from


Reading Section: Part Part 6- Text Completion

Tips:

• Eliminate words that do not belong

• Choose what “sounds best”

Strategies:

• Try to understand the meaning of the text

• Skim surrounding sentences to help

answer

Taking the TOEIC®: Tips and Strategies

Reading Section: Part 6- Text Completion

• Testers will read a selection from the texts

• Such texts can be advertisements, letters, magazine, and newspaper

articles

• Each text is followed by several questions

Reading Section: Part 7- Reading Comprehension

The TOEIC ® Listening and Reading Test

Tips:

• Test testers should just to Part 7 before

doing Part 5 and 6

Strategies:

• Test takers should think “Who is the

passage written for?” and “Why it was

written”

• Quickly scanning the passage to answer

the specific information questions they can

pick up a general sense of what the

passage is about and how it is organized

Taking the TOEIC ®: Tips and StrategiesReading Section: Part 7- Reading Comprehension

Picture Description

• Place a selection of test photos on the

table between students and read out

sentences from the transcript.

• Students race to slap their palms down on

the correct picture

• Students cannot move their hands if the

sentence doesn’t match any of the

pictures.

• You can then continue with the students

reading out the transcript sentences and

then making up their own sentences

Listening Section: Part 1 - Picture Description

Extension Activity: Picture Slap

Picture Description

• Provide students with questions from

Listening Part Two

• Students will remove two incorrect

answers and have the correct reply

remaining

• They must try to trick the other students

by reading other students their own two

incorrect answers

Picture Description


Extension Activity:

Listening Challenge

Picture Description

• The teacher selects passages from the

Short Conversation Transcripts

• Students race to find words or

sentences that mean the same as what

the teacher says, e.g. “The client is

unhappy” for “The customer isn’t

satisfied”

• This is great practice for when the

words in the question and the text are

not the same (fairly often)


Extension Activity:

Find the Synonyms Race

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