TOEFL iBT Grammar

Step 1 – Super-Size Your TOEFL Vocabulary

Step 1 –Super-Size your Vocabulary The first step to successfully pass the TOEFL  iBT Exam is building vocabulary proficiency. Let’s face it.  How can you understand college level vocabulary without having basic vocabulary?  Moreover, how can you perform optimally when reading and listening to TOEFL7 iBT passages without a good vocabulary foundation?  Finally, how can […]

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Step 6: Target and Improve Your TOEFL Writing Weaknesses

Step 6 – Target and Improve Your Writing Weaknesses The sixth step to successfully pass the TOEFL iBT Exam is to gain competence in independent and integrated writing skills: decoding the writing task, organizing a coherent response, writing detailed developmental paragraphs, and ending the essay with a conclusion. Without an organized approach to these writing

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Step 1 – Super-Size Your TOEFL Vocabulary

Step 1 –Super-Size your Vocabulary The first step to successfully pass the TOEFL7 iBT Exam is building vocabulary proficiency. Let’s face it.  How can you understand college level vocabulary without having basic vocabulary?  Moreover, how can you perform optimally when reading and listening to TOEFL7 iBT passages without a good vocabulary foundation?  Finally, how can

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Step 7 – Have an Organized Approach to TOEFL Speaking

Step 7 – Have an Organized Approach to TOEFL Speaking The seventh step to successfully pass the TOEFL iBT Exam is learning competent speaking skills: decoding the speaking task, organizing a coherent response including a topic statement, delivering rich details in the body of the speech, and ending with a conclusion. Despite your preparedness, you

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How to Use Better TOEFL Scores to Help You Pass the TOEFL iBT

Michael Buckhoff’s “7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT Exam!” “Give me a power-packed TOEFL lesson!” Watch Videos: Pumpkin Patches and TOEFL iBT, Corn Mazes and TOEFL iBT As an English professor and TOEFL instructor, I have mixed bag of experiences when it comes to my profession. Sometimes, I have students who are unmotivated,

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TOEFL iBT Reading, Speaking, and Writing: A Case Study of a Student from Better TOEFL Scores

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TOEFL iBT Reading: Answering Vocabulary Questions

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TOEFL iBT Grammar: Non-Restrictive versus Restrictive Adjective Clauses – To Use or Not Use Commas

Michael Buckhoff’s “7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT Exam!” “Give me a power-packed TOEFL lesson!” Watch Videos: Try Something Different, Learn about Michael’s TOEFL Lessons Listen to this post: punctuating-adjective-clauses During TOEFL IBT writing, you will be using adjective clauses when you are combining a main idea with a support idea (i.e., adjective

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