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 …
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 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 …
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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Step 3 – Evaluate Your Grammar Competencies The third step to successfully pass the TOEFL iBT Exam is learning basic and advanced sentence structures, verb tenses, word forms, word choice, parallel structures, and so on. Think about the importance of grammar. A car can not run without its engine, right? Most certainly, a language can …
Step 1 – Super-Size Your Vocabulary “Why is this this the first step in passing the TOEFL iBT?” 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 …
[flv]http://www.bettertoeflscores.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/newinterviewfilebegum.mp4[/flv] Begum is taking her first university class in the United States; she is also one of my TOEFL iBT students. During this interview, you will learn the challenges that she faces as she completes her coursework. Most importantly, she explains how to overcome those challenges so you too can succeed when taking university courses …
Learners of English face a myriad of problems as they learn clear pronunciation. A sure sign of novice speakers are when they pause too often or have irregular intonation patterns, often manifested utterances such as, 1). “Are-you-going-to-the-movies-with-your-friends tomorrow?” or 2). “ARE YOU GOING TO THE MOVIES WITH YOUR FRIENDS TOMORROW?” In the first example, the …
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A non-native speaker approaches you and says, “HELlo, how are you doING? Which UNiversity are you ATtending?” Each of the capitalized words in the speaker’s question indicates places of primary stress, so you can guess that this speaker is placing primary stress in all the wrong places, resulting in strange, distracting, and barely intelligible speech. …
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