McGraw-Hill Education TOEFL iBT with 3 Practice Tests and DVD-ROM

Tim Collins (Autor)

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750 Seiten

2014
McGraw-Hill Professional (Verlag)
978-0-07-179622-4 (ISBN)

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Helps you reach the TOEFL exam score you want. This book includes 5 full-length practice tests, explained exercises, additional practice questions, and TOEFL-specific vocabulary features to accompany every lesson.

What you need to know to ace the TOEFL exam

McGraw-Hill's TOEFL will help you reach the exam score you want. Inside you will find a full-scale test-prep program that combines book, interactive CD-ROM, and online audio to give you the most complete TOEFL instruction and practice available anywhere.

Includes:

5 full-length practice tests, fully explained exercises, additional practice questions, and TOEFL-specific vocabulary features to accompany every lessonA PC- and Mac-compatible CD that features all 5 practice tests in interactive format, like the real exam, audio portions for all additional listening exercises, plus model speaking responses and record-and-playback function for student speaking responsesAudio tracks for all listening questions in the book

Tim Collins, Ph.D., has more than three decades of experience in the field of ESL. He currently trains new ESL teachers at National-Louis University.

McGraw-Hill’s TOEFL with CD-ROM

Welcome to McGraw-Hill’s TOEFL
How to Use This Book
Your TOEFL Action Plan
Taking the Practice Tests
Practical Information for TOEFL Takers

I. Introducing the TOEFL

Format of the Test
Scoring
Sample Questions
General Test-taking Tips

II. TOEFL Diagnostic Test

Audio scripts, Answer Key, and Explanations
Interpreting Your Scores

III. TOEFL Reading

Identifying Basic Information

Factual Information Questions
Negative Factual Information Questions

▪ Strategy: Locate Details

EXERCISES

WALK-THROUGH: Identifying Basic Information Questions
Practice Questions
Vocabulary Drills
Answers and Explanations

Understanding the Passage

Inference Questions
Rhetorical Purpose Questions
Vocabulary Questions
Reference Questions
Sentence Simplification Questions
Insert Text Questions

▪ Strategies: Make Inferences ▪ Identify the Author’s Purpose ▪ Understand Relationships Between Ideas ▪

EXERCISES

WALK-THROUGH: Understanding the Passage Questions
Practice Questions
Vocabulary Drills
Answers and Explanations

Reading to Learn

Prose Summary Questions
Fill in a Table Questions

▪ Strategies: Recognize the Organization of a Passage ▪ Organize Information into a Chart

EXERCISES

WALK-THROUGH: Reading to Learn Questions
Practice Questions
Vocabulary Drills
Answers and Explanations

TOEFL Full-length Reading Practice Section

Answers and Explanations

Activities to Build Reading Skills

IV. TOEFL Listening

Basic Comprehension

Gist-Content Questions
Gist-Purpose Questions
Detail Questions

▪ Strategy: Comprehending Main Ideas and Important Details

EXERCISES

WALK-THROUGH: Understanding the Passage Questions
Practice Questions
Vocabulary Drills
Audio scripts, Answers, and Explanations

Pragmatic Understanding

Understanding the Function of What Is Said Questions
Understanding the Speaker’s Attitude Questions

▪ Strategies: Recognizing a Speaker’s Attitude and Degree of Certainty ▪ Recognizing a Speaker’s Function or Purpose

EXERCISES

WALK-THROUGH: Pragmatic Understanding Questions
Practice Questions
Vocabulary Drills
Audio scripts, Answers, and Explanations

Connecting Information

Understanding Organization
Connecting Content
Making Inferences

▪ Strategies: Note Taking ▪ Recognizing the Organization of Information Presented ▪ Recognizing Cause and Effect, Compare/Contrast, or Steps in a Process ▪ Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions ▪ Making Connections Among Points in a Lecture ▪ Recognizing Introductions and Conclusions in a Lecture

EXERCISES

WALK-THROUGH: Connecting Information Questions
Practice Questions
Vocabulary Drills
Audio scripts, Answers, and Explanations

TOEFL Full-length Listening Practice Section

Audio scripts, Answers, and Explanations

Activities to Build Listening Skills

V. TOEFL Speaking

Speaking Tasks

Independent
Integrated Listening/Reading/Speaking
Integrated Listening/Speaking

▪ Basic Speaking Strategies: Note taking ▪ Expressing an Opinion ▪ Summarizing ▪ Paraphrasing ▪ Synthesizing ▪ Solving a Problem

▪ Advanced Speaking Strategies: Pronunciation ▪ Tone ▪ Coherence ▪ Fluency

EXERCISES

WALK-THROUGH: Speaking
Practice Questions
Vocabulary Drills
Audio scripts, Model Responses, and Explanations

TOEFL Full-length Speaking Practice Section

Audio scripts, Model Responses, and Explanations

Activities to Build Speaking Skills

VI. TOEFL Writing

Writing Tasks

Integrated Writing
Independent Writing

▪ Basic Writing Strategies: Summarizing ▪ Paraphrasing ▪ Synthesizing ▪ P
resenting Your Opinion on an Issue ▪ Supporting Your Opinion with Facts and Examples

▪ Advanced Writing Strategies: Grammar ▪ Sentence Structure ▪ Paragraph Organization ▪ Spelling ▪ Tone ▪ Coherence

EXERCISES

WALK-THROUGH: Writing
Practice Questions
Vocabulary Drills
Audio scripts, Model Essays, and Explanations

TOEFL Full-length Writing Practice Section

Audio scripts, Model Essays, and Explanations

Activities to Build Writing Skills

VII. TOEFL Practice Tests

Practice Test 1

Answers, Explanations, and Audio scripts

Practice Test 2

Answers, Explanations, and Audio scripts

Practice Test 3

Answers, Explanations, and Audio scripts

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CD-ROM

Audio tracks 1 - XX

Practice Test 1

Answers and Explanations

Practice Test 2

Answers and Explanations

Practice Test 3

Answers and Explanations

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.2.2014
Sprache	englisch
Maße	218 x 272 mm
Gewicht	1706 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-07-179622-3 / 0071796223
ISBN-13	978-0-07-179622-4 / 9780071796224
Zustand	Neuware