1. LISTENNING: Course Schedule and Lessons
Day 1
Introduction to TOEFL Listening Comprehension; New answering types; Tips and Skills for TOEFL Score Success; Get TOEFL Listening Pre-test
Day 2
TOEFL Listening Part A Introduction and Strategies
Day 3
Idioms, Everyday and Specific Vocabulary;
Day 4
Inference;Emphatic Word Use
Day 5
TOEFL Listening Part B Introduction and Strategies; Extended Conversations
Day 6
Academic discussions
Day 7
Mini-lectures; Post-Test
2. READING:
Day 1
Introduction to TOEFL Reading Comprehension; New answering types; Tips and Skills for TOEFL Score Success; Get TOEFL Reading Pre-test
Day 2
TOEFL-specific reading improvement strategies
Day 3
Reading for main ideas in TOEFL passages: Previewing, Skimming, Scanning, … a reading passage to answer questions about the central idea.
Day 4
Familiarity with detail questions in TOEFL Reading Comprehension
Day 5
Learning about inference and unstated conclusions on the TOEFL test
Day 6
The types of vocabulary questions on the TOEFL test
Day 7
Other less common TOEFL question types such as viewpoint, organizational and analogy; Get TOEFL Reading Post-test
3. WRITING:
Day 1
Instructor-Scored Pre-Test Essay; Course Introduction: Getting started with the TWE; Learning what constitues a top TWE Essay
Day 2
Prewriting activities that drill you towards achieving a top TWE score
Day 3
Now you are ready: The nuts and bolts of writing your TWE essay
Day 4
Different writing styles needed for the TWE: Narrative, Description and Comparison
Day 5
And now, in conclusion, … how best to end your TWE essay
Day 6
Editing for success: putting your TWE essay in its brightest light possible
Day 7
Instructor-Scored Post-Test Essay; Learning from the pros by dissecting superior TWE Essays
4. GRAMMAR REVIEW
Day 1 (topics are listed below)
Topics 1-4; Pre-Test
Day 2
Topics 5-9
Day 3
Topics 10-14
Day 4
Topics 15-18
Day 5
Topics 19-22
Day 6
Topics 23-26
Day 7
Topics 27-31; Post-Test
Course Objectives
Having taken this course, one is expected to have mastered
1. Agreement of Tenses
2. Subject-Verb Agreement
3. Two-Word and Three-Word Verbs
4. Active and Passive Verbs
5. Common Verb Errors
6. Subjects and Objects
7. Common Noun Errors
8. Common Pronoun Errors
9. Noun Phrases
10. Gerunds and Infinitives
11. Expressions with It
12. Expressions with There
13. Common Adjective Errors
14. Common Adverb Errors
15. Comparisons (Structure)
16. Comparisons (Writing)
17. Prepositions
18. Prepositional Phrases
19. Adjective, Adverb, Gerund, and Infinitive Phrases
20. Adverb Clauses
21. Adjective Clauses
22. Noun Clauses
23. Conjunctions (Structure)
24. Conjunctions (Writing)
25. Negative Constructions
26. Word Order (Structure)
27. Word Order (Writing)
28. Parallelism (Structure)
29. Parallelism (Written Expression)
30. Redundancy
31. Omission and Inclusion
