3. Overview of the TOEIC test
1. What does TOEIC stand for?
2. How many parts are there in the TOEIC
test?
3. How many parts are there in listening
section?
4. How many question items are there in
each section?
5. How long is each section?
4. What does TOEIC stand for?
TOEIC =
Test of English for International
Communication
5. How many parts are there?
A.2 skills
Reading section
B. 3
C. 4 Listening section
D. 7 Total
8. Part 1: Describing photos
Photo strategies
- Look at the photo before you listen to the audio
- Ask yourself some questions:
People Things
1. Who is in the 1. What is in the
photo (job)? photo?
2. What is he/she 2. What is being
doing? done?
3. Where is he/she? 3. Where is it?
4. How does he/she 4. How does it look?
look?
- Give the photo a title
- Tell yourself a story about the photo
11. 1
People -
Plant/
customer
Tree-
leaves
tables
Pavement/
Sidewalk/
outdoors
a, the people are sitting in a b, several customers are
large room leaving
c, the tables are occupied d, a waiter is serving drinks
39. 13
To get rid of = stop/discard
A.Woman, ride a bicycle
C. Get rid of
B. Read, book
D. In front of, bus
40. 14
A.Looks at C. Enter
B. Looking at, items D. Get out
41. Grammar:
Preposition of place
A. At, in and on for location
1. at
+ a place,→ close to it, generally not
touching (particular & small place)
We'll meet you at the bus stop.
I think I heard someone at the door.
+ a point on a scale or a journey
Bake the pie in the oven at 170.
We stopped at York during our trip north.
42. Preposition of place
2.In
+ a container→ inside it
The money was in a box in a drawer in the desk in my
office.
What's in the envelop?
+ a general area (a region or a country)
Lily is going to spend a week in Tuscany this summer.
Is that in France or Italy?
43. Preposition of place
3. on
+ a place (smth), → in contact with a surface
I left the key on the table.
She reached over and put her hand on his.
+ a place in relation to a line (a road or a river)
You'll pass Stratford on the way to Birmingham.
It's just a small town on the river Avon.
Note: „Who is the small boy in the picture?‟
(NOT on the picture)
44. Preposition of place
B. Above and over
→ one thing is in a higher position than another (1).
There's a full moon above/over the mountain.
He has a small scar above/over his left eye.
1. above (not over) → one thing is at a higher level or point on a scale
than another (2).
It's always colder above the snowline.
Her name is above mine on the waiting list.
2. over (not above) → one thing covers another in some way
I had to wear a scarf over my head.
3. More figuratively, above → sense of “better than”
over → sense of “more than”
His work is above average.
Are you over 21? (NOT Are you above 21)
45. Grammar_Exercise 1
1. The meeting focused on economic
problems developing countries in South-
East Asia.
2. You can either stand at the bar or sit at a
table most pubs in Britain.
3. We were depending on my brother to
meet us at the exit door after the concert.
4. The children were laughing at something
they had seen in a cartoon
46. 1. on the
corner of
2. behind
3. between
4. opposite
5. on
6. next to
7. opposite
8. on the
corner of
9. on
10. on
48. Vocabulary
Paragraph (C)
1. fraud 2. discrimination
3. bullying 4. racial
5. abuse 6. sexual
7. harassment
8. fired 9. suspended
10. unfair 11. dismissal (we can also say wrongful
dismissal)
12. appeal
49. Vocabulary
Paragraph (D)
1. breaches 2. neglecting (can also be a noun: neglect of duties)
3. insubordination 4. damage 5. disciplinary 6. board 7. instant 8.
dismissal
Paragraph (E)
1. shortages
2. overstretched
3. grievance (= a formal word for complaint)
4. walkout
5. verbal
6. warning (verbal warning, written warning)
7. notice (a company asks you for your notice → politely tell you that
they are going to force you to resign)
50. Vocabulary
Paragraph (F)
1. dropped 2. redundant
3. resigned 4. bankrupt
5. hacked 6. virus
7. crashed 8. order (out of order =
broken / not working)
