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