Tips and strategies to assist students and teachers to organize their curriculum to help students achieve optimal results for the TOEIC Listening and Reading Test.

1. Taking the TOEIC®:
Skills and Strategies
1&2
Tips and Strategies
for
Taking the TOEIC®

3. Tips and Strategies for
Taking the TOEIC®
In This Presentation:
• Show how to organize a curriculum to prepare
students for taking the TOEIC® Listening and
Reading Test
• Apply key methodologies for assisting students
• Use the principles found in Wendi Shin’s Taking the
TOEIC ® 1 & 2
• We will explore effective tips and strategies for
teaching students preparing for the TOEIC ® Test
• Incorporate poignant activities

4. Preparing Students
• Maintain parent/teacher communication
• Include all skills
• Provide guidance on developing and supporting knowledge
from the classroom to the real world
• The course should effectively use the available study time
• Provide concrete strategies for handling each individual part of
the test

5. The Four Strand Method

6. • Learning through listening and reading
• Leveled material for learner’s with few unfamiliar words
• Learner’s focused on the message of the material
• One quarter of the course time should be spent on
meaning focused output
Meaning-Focused Input

7. • Meaning-focused output involves learning through speaking and writing
• Learners’ attention should be focused on communicating messages to
others
• They should be speaking and writing about things that they know a lot
about but which stretches their language knowledge
• Telling another learner about yourself or about something that you are
very interested in
• One quarter of the course time should be spent on meaning focused
output
Meaning-Focused Output

8. Language Focused Learning
• Deliberate learning of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and
discourse structure
• Deliberate attention to language features
• Use of language-learning strategies

9. Fluency Development
• Learners are encouraged to make the best use of what is
already known
• Developing fluency in the four skills
• Developing speed
• Reinforcing learning

11. • Reading comprehension depends on the meaning students give to
words
• The more words students know, the more they can read and
understand
• In order to be able to remember new words, students must practice
and apply
Why Is Vocabulary Important?

13. (How many times do we need to see and practice
new vocabulary and language structures
to be able to remember them)

14. What Is Reading Comprehension?
Reading
Comprehension
Language
Fluency
Meta-cognition
Knowledge

15. How Do We Teach Reading Comprehension?
The old way…
• Assume that after a student can decode, comprehension needs to be tested
• Comprehension improves through the teaching of specific comprehension
skills
Now …
• Students must be taught how to flexibly apply many strategies to truly
understand the text

16. What Do Good Readers Do?
• Use background knowledge to make predictions
• Identify key areas in the text that they are reading and familiar with,
text structures
• Monitor their own comprehension and adjust their reading strategies
if needed
• Use a variety of reading strategies effectively
• Start to form opinions and critical thinking

17. Reading Skills
How can we get our students to read for
meaning?
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Intensive Reading
• Extensive Reading

18. SKIMMING
• Basic understanding or general idea of
input
• Ability to provide basic summary as
output

19. SCANNING
• Specific Information
• Answer specific content based output

20. INTENSIVE READING
• Language focused learning
• Meaning focused input development

21. EXTENSIVE READING
• Speed and fluency development

23. Intensive vs. Extensive

24. Taking the TOEIC ® Book Overview
• Taking the TOEIC ® 1 & 2: Skills and Strategies is intended for pre-
intermediate and intermediate students of English who need to start
preparation for the TOEIC ® Test
• The book is divided into four sections, or chapters, dealing with the
areas tested in TOEIC ® :
• Chapter 1- Listening Practice
• Chapter 2- Grammar Practice
• Chapter 3- Reading Practice
• Chapter 4- Practice Test
• Support

25. Key Features:
• General information about the TOEIC®
• Tips on how to complete each section of the test
• Clear & precise grammar explanations
• Mini practice tests in each section
Taking the TOEIC ® Key Features
www.compasspub.com/TOEICSKILLS

26. The TOEIC® Listening and
Reading Test
with
Taking the TOEIC®: Skills and
Strategies

27. About TOEIC ® :
• TOEIC® stands for Test of English for
International Communication. This book
focuses on preparation for the TOEIC ®
Listening and Reading Test
• The listening section tests the ability to
understand spoken English
• The reading section tests the knowledge of
grammar and vocabulary usage and the
ability to read and understand short passages
Information about the TOEIC® Listening and
Reading Test

28. Information about the TOEIC® Listening and
Reading Test
TOEIC® Test Structure:
• Section 1 Listening Test
Listening Total: 100 questions
Time: 45 minutes
• Section 2 Reading Test
Reading Total: 100 questions
Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

29. Information about the TOEIC® Test
Level Evaluation Guidelines
A
Can usually communicate adequately as a non-
native speaker.
B
Is capable of communicating appropriately in
most situations.
C
Has sufficient knowledge for daily activities and
conducting business within certain limits.
D
Is capable of the minimal communication in
ordinary conversation.
E Is not able to communicate adequately.
730
860
470
220
990

30. Let’s Explore the TOEIC®
Listening and Speaking Test
with
Taking the TOEIC®:
Tips and Strategies

31. • In this section, test takers will have the chance to show how well
they understand spoken English
• There are four parts to this section with special directions for
each part
• 100 total listening questions
• 45 minutes to complete the section
Listening Section
The TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test

32. • Students are shown 10 pictures
• Test takers are to look and identify words
and expressions that best describe the
picture
• Test takers are to choose from 4 multiple
choice questions
The TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test
Listening Section: Part 1 – Picture Description

33. Tips:
Focus on identifying key
factors in the image
Who?
-A man
-A woman
Where?
-Indoors
-Next to a computer
What?
-A screwdriver
-A computer
-Repairing
Taking the TOEIC ®: Tips and Strategies
Listening Section: Part 1 – Picture Description

34. Strategies:
• Attempt to predict the vocabulary
• Students will learn to brainstorm and become
familiar locations like homes, the workplace, and
public places
• Follow a subject-verb pattern
• Be aware of misleading questions
Taking the TOEIC ®: Tips and Strategies
Listening Section: Part 1 – Picture Description

35. • Questions or statements are provided and three
responses are spoken in English
The TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test
Listening Section: Part 2 – Questions & Responses

36. Tips:
• Do, does, did, are, is, will, can—usually
need a “yes” or “no” answer
Strategies:
• Focuses on commonly tested question types
• Provides assistance in identifying appropriate
answers for each type
• Assume the is try to trick the test taker
Taking the TOEIC ®: Tips and Strategies
Listening Section: Part 2 – Questions & Responses

37. • Conversations between two people are spoken
• Test takers must answer three questions about what the speakers
say in each conversation
• The best response to each question is to be marked with the letter
(A), (B), (C), or (D) on the answer sheet
The TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test
Listening Section: Part 3 – Short Conversations

38. Tips:
• Read all answer before making a choice
• Have students preparing for the test by
listening to the dialog from Taking the
TOEIC®, and imagine where the
speakers are located
Strategies:
• Listen to different conversations in various environments
• Use each question to help answer related questions
Taking the TOEIC ®: Tips and Strategies
Listening Section: Part 3 – Short Conversations

39. • Test takers will hear some short talks given by a single speaker
• They will be asked to answer three questions about what the speaker
says
• The best response to each question should be selected, by marking
one of the following letters (A), (B), (C), or (D) on the answer sheet
• The talks will be spoken only one time and will not be printed in the test
book
The TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test
Listening Section: Part 4 – Short Talks

40. Tips:
• Test takers must listen closely to the introduction preceding the
talk. It will tell them what type of information they will hear
(news report, weather report, etc.)
Strategies:
• Between listening passages, test takers should
skim questions to predict what they will hear
• They are then asked to listen to the provided test
questions
Taking the TOEIC ®: Tips and Strategies
Listening Section: Part 4 – Short Talks

41. • In this section of the test, test takers have the chance to show how well
they understand written English
• There are three parts to this section, with special directions for each part
Reading Section
TOEIC® Reading Test:
Section 2 - Reading Test
• Reading Total: 100 questions
• Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
The TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test

42. • A word or phrase is missing in each of the sentences
• Four answer choices are given below each sentence
• Select the best answer to complete the sentence
The TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test
Reading Section: Part 5 – Incomplete Sentences

43. Tips:
• Inform students that Incorrect spelling is
never part of an option in TOEIC®
answers
Strategies:
• Time management skills are critical for this
section
• Look at the choices, eliminate any that are
the wrong part of speech, and then read the
sentence(silently) with each remaining word
in the gap
Taking the TOEIC ®: Tips and Strategies
Reading Section: Part 5 – Incomplete Sentences

44. • Test takers Read texts in which a word or phrase is missing in some of the
sentences and identify content by selecting the appropriate answer
• Four answer choices are provided to choose from
The TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test
Reading Section: Part Part 6- Text Completion

45. Tips:
• Eliminate words that do not belong
• Choose what “sounds best”
Strategies:
• Try to understand the meaning of the text
• Skim surrounding sentences to help
answer
Taking the TOEIC®: Tips and Strategies
Reading Section: Part 6- Text Completion

46. • Testers will read a selection from the texts
• Such texts can be advertisements, letters, magazine, and newspaper
articles
• Each text is followed by several questions
Reading Section: Part 7- Reading Comprehension
The TOEIC ® Listening and Reading Test

47. Tips:
• Test testers should just to Part 7 before
doing Part 5 and 6
Strategies:
• Test takers should think “Who is the
passage written for?” and “Why it was
written”
• Quickly scanning the passage to answer
the specific information questions they can
pick up a general sense of what the
passage is about and how it is organized
Taking the TOEIC ®: Tips and Strategies
Reading Section: Part 7- Reading Comprehension

48. Picture Description
• Place a selection of test photos on the
table between students and read out
sentences from the transcript.
• Students race to slap their palms down on
the correct picture
• Students cannot move their hands if the
sentence doesn’t match any of the
pictures.
• You can then continue with the students
reading out the transcript sentences and
then making up their own sentences
Listening Section: Part 1 - Picture Description
Extension Activity: Picture Slap

49. Picture Description
• Provide students with questions from
Listening Part Two
• Students will remove two incorrect
answers and have the correct reply
remaining
• They must try to trick the other students
by reading other students their own two
incorrect answers
Picture Description
Listening Section: Part 2 – Questions & Responses
Extension Activity:
Listening Challenge

50. Picture Description
• The teacher selects passages from the
Short Conversation Transcripts
• Students race to find words or
sentences that mean the same as what
the teacher says, e.g. “The client is
unhappy” for “The customer isn’t
satisfied”
• This is great practice for when the
words in the question and the text are
not the same (fairly often)
Listening Section: Part 3 – Short Conversations
Extension Activity:
Find the Synonyms Race

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