Daily Guidance #20 and Practice

Hello Students,

This week's daily advice will talk about improving your writing skills.

Pay attention to how you organize ideas and think about how a reader who isn’t familiar with your topic is going to be able to follow the information you want to present.

• Spend time planning and thinking about how to organize your ideas. Your reader should be able to understand how your essay is organized.
• Have a friend or a teacher outline your essay so that you can see if others can recognize your method of organization.
• Make sure you are using the right words to connect your ideas and supporting information in the way you want your reader to understand them.
• Remember that your reader doesn’t know what you know or what you intend. Is there any way your reader might misunderstand? If so, consider revising how you present and explain your ideas.

On a word document shared to me you will write about the following: 

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People should read only those books that are about real events, real people, and established facts. Use specific reasons and details to support your opinion.

Daily Guidance # 19

Hello Students,


This weeks daily advice is to watch the following video of tips for writing practice. Comment below what you thought of the video.



Link: https://magoosh.com/toefl/2015/toefl-tuesday-writing-section-advice/

Daily Guidance # 18 and Practice

Hello Students,

This weeks daily guidance is for listening practice. Read below the tips carefully and apply them to the practice.

Use the resources in your community to practice listening to English.

• Visit places in your community where you can hear English spoken.
  • Go to an English school, an embassy or an English-speaking Chamber of Commerce.
  • Go to a museum and take an audio tour in English.
  • Follow a guided tour in English of your city.
  • Call or visit a hotel where tourists stay and get information in English about room rates, hotel availability or hotel facilities.
  • Call and listen to information recorded in English, such as a movie schedule, a weather report or information about an airplane flight.
• Watch or listen to programs recorded in English.
  • Watch television programs.
    • CNN, the Discovery Channel or National Geographic
    • Watch movies, soap operas or situation comedies
  • Rent videos or go to a movie in English.
  • Listen to a book on tape in English.
  • Listen to music in English and then check your accuracy by finding the lyrics on the Internet (e.g., www.lyrics.com).
• Go to Internet sites to practice listening.
  • National Public Radio (www.npr.org)
  • CBS News (www.cbsnews.com)
  • Randall's Cyber Listening Lab (www.esl-lab.com)
  • BBC World Service.com Learning English (www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish)
• Get CDs with full-length lectures. Full-length lectures/presentations are available from UC Berkeley.

Link: 

The TOEFL iBT® Test: Improving Your Listening Skills. (n.d.). Retrieved July 11, 2017, from https://www.ets.org/toefl/ibt/scores/improve/advice_listening_high

Practice: http://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/toefl_listening.htm

Daily Guidance #17 and Practice

Hello Students,


This weeks daily guidance is:

Use a dictionary and flashcards to study smart

While reading is the fastest way to expand vocabulary and prepare for the TOEFL, this doesn’t mean you should rely on your brain to magically log and retain every new word to which it has been exposed. You can help the process along by reading with a dictionary and confirming your guesses about new vocabulary by looking words up and turning them into flashcards for later review.

TIP: Be careful not to look up every word as that can make reading tedious and cognitively overloading.

Practice: https://www.thoughtco.com/toefl-vocabulary-practice-quiz-4061539

NOTE: Tomorrow we will have an open session from eight to nine. Email me who is interested at alondraponce94@gmail.com

Daily Guidance # 16 and Practice

Hello Students,


Daily Advice for this week is to think carefully about the purpose of a lecture.

• Try to answer the question, "What is the professor trying to accomplish in this lecture?"
• Write down only the information that you hear. Be careful not to interpret information based on your personal understanding or knowledge of the topic.
  • Answer questions based on what was actually discussed in the talk

I am uploading a link to listening practice online. Below is the link.



Link: https://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/TOEFL_ITP/html/Section%201,%20TOEFL%20ITP,%20Listening%20Comprehension.html

Daily Guidance #15

Hello Students,


This weeks daily advice is to inform the student of how to be prepared for the TOEFL exam.

Tips for Success on Test Day

• Dress comfortably for any room temperature.
• Eat a good breakfast.
• Arrive at the test center at least 30 minutes early.
• Follow directions carefully to avoid wasting time.
• Do not panic. Concentrate on the task in front of you. Do not think about questions you have already answered.
• Do not spend too much time on one question.
• Do not leave questions blank. If you are not sure of the answer, make the best possible choice.
• Pace yourself to answer every question and avoid rushing at the end.

Daily Guidance # 14 and Practice

Hello Students,

This week´s daily guidance is

Practice note taking whenever you are listening to something in English – only write down key words or phrases, use abbreviations for long words and always write in English. Record only the major points – you will not have time to write down the minor, unimportant details in the exam.


Improve your vocabulary – the more words you know, the easier it will be for you to understand the listening section. Learn new vocab and save words you have trouble with by becoming an English, baby! Super member.


Listen for signal words that indicate major steps, changes or ideas such as seldom, at the moment, in 1975, so far, usually, often, up to now, at the moment. Make sure to also listen for repetition, synonyms and pronouns.



Additional listening practice:


https://www.ets.org/toefl/pbt/prepare/listening_comprehension_practice_section1


https://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/TOEFL_ITP/html/Section%201,%20TOEFL%20ITP,%20Listening%20Comprehension.html