I am a foreign pharmacist and I passed the TOEFL exam this month, with 29 points in the Speaking section ! I took the exam 4 times because I had problems with speaking - I was stuck at 23. After my third try, I realized I needed to find a teacher who can evaluate my speaking and help me. So, I contacted Danijela. She identified my problems and taught me …
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Academic vocabulary and TOEFL
In my many years of teaching TOEFL preparation courses, I found that there is one underlying skill that all my high-scoring students had in common - strong Academic vocabulary. Every section of the TOEFL test depends on it, directly or indirectly. Academic vocabulary and TOEFL Reading In the Reading section, you actually have to answer a number of questions directly related to vocabulary. You need to pick synonyms for particular words, in the given context. These questions make up more than 20% of all the questions in the Reading section. Knowing the most common or most widely used meaning of the word is often not enough. You need to know more than that - other possible meanings, word forms and collocations. If you have done some TOEFL Reading practice , you've probably already discovered that the correct answer choice (for the vocabulary questions) is rarely the one that seems most obvious or most familiar. Academic vocabulary and TOEFL Listening When it comes to the Listening …
From the bio of our head teacher/adviser Danijela
- 13+ years of developing and implementing highly successful TOEFL prep. courses, at two internationally recognized ESL schools.
- ETS Certified Integrated-Skills for TOEFL iBT Curriculum Designer
- TEFL Certified