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 On this type of speaking task, you will be asked to speak about a person, place, object, or event that is familiar to you. After you […]
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Listening is a skill that dominates the TOEFL iBT. This section takes 60-90 minutes and has two conversations (3-5 minutes long) and four lectures (3 minutes), with 34-51 questions measuring your ability to understand what was heard. Additionally, the last four speaking tasks require you to (3) to read, listen, and speak in relation to
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Listen to this post: What Pronunciation Goals Should You Set Before Taking the TOEFL iBT Before taking the TOEFL iBT, you should set some goals regarding your speaking and pronunciation abilities. Consider the following pronunciation proficiency continuum, a scale indicating your intelligibility or proficiency as a non-native speaker of English. The closer your score is
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Listen to this post: Beware of monosyllabic words To score well on TOEFL iBT speaking, you should have good pronunciation. Especially, you should make sure that your pronunciation does not prevent meaning. Typically, students struggle with pronunciation of multi-syllabic words such as individual, university, electricity, and autobiographical to name a few. But, even when these
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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 Are you getting ready to test your English skills but are not sure whether or not to take the TOEFL iBT or the TOEIC? The following is a
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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 Some time ago, I got the following E-mail from a former student: “Hello! This is Hajime. How are you, Michael? Last Monday, I got a result of TOEFL
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Though grammar is not a section on the TOEFL iBT, you will need a deep understanding of grammar so you can perform well on the writing and speaking sections. To illustrate, let’s compare grammar and writing to the game of baseball, particularly a pitcher-typically the highest paid professional athlete on a team. A pitcher must
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Michael Buckhoff’s “7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT Exam!” Give me a lesson now! Regularly in my Advanced TOEFL iBT Preparation class at California State University, San Bernardino, I assign practice writing exams so that students can practice writing timed essays under the 30 minute or 20 minute time constraint. And today was
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Michael Buckhoff’s “7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT Exam!” You’ve all listened to them-the crystal clear voice recordings from the voice from nowhere, the voice that perfectly pronounces all the consonant and vowel sounds of American English. And the other speaker responds with distinct pauses in speech, always careful not to interrupt the
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