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Longman Introductory Course for the TOEFL Test: iBT (without CD-ROM, with Answer Key) (Audio CDs required) Deborah Phillips

Longman Introductory Course for the TOEFL Test: iBT (without CD-ROM, with Answer Key) (Audio CDs required) By Deborah Phillips

Longman Introductory Course for the TOEFL Test: iBT (without CD-ROM, with Answer Key) (Audio CDs required) by Deborah Phillips


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Longman Introductory Course for the TOEFL Test: iBT (without CD-ROM, with Answer Key) (Audio CDs required) Summary

Longman Introductory Course for the TOEFL Test: iBT (without CD-ROM, with Answer Key) (Audio CDs required) by Deborah Phillips

Providing both a comprehensive language skills course and a wealth of practice for all sections of the test, the Longman Introductory Course for the TOEFL(R) Test: IBT, by Deborah Phillips, gives intermediate students (scores of 450 to 520 on the paper TOEFL(R) Test or 133 to 190 on the TOEFL(R) iBT) all the tools they need to begin to prepare for the TOEFL(R) iBT integrated-skills test. Upon completion of the Introductory Course, students are ready to handle the more advanced material in Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL(R) Test: IBT. Note: You must have the Audio CDs to use the listening material (the Skills Practice, the Mini-Tests, the Complete Tests, and the TOEFL(R)-level Test) in the textbook. The audio material on the CD-ROM is different from that on the adio CDs. Click here to purchase the Audio CDs. The Student Book features: *Authentic material for all the new types of passages and questions on the test. *Diagnostic pre-tests and post-tests that allow students to identify strengths and weaknesses and assess improvement in each section.* Practice sections for the four skills: *Reading provides practice exercises in the new test formats, including filling in a table or chart and paraphrasing. *Listening provides authentic conversations between two people in an academic setting and academic lectures with new questions about a speaker's attitude or purpose. *Speaking includes personal and expository tasks and integrated tasks. *Writing consists of expository and integrated tasks: reading/listening/writing.*Four mini-tests that preview the test's integrated four-skills format. *One complete introductory-level practice test. *One TOEFL(R)-level test. The CD-ROM, available separately, features: *Completely different material from that in the Student Book. *Practice sections for all parts of the test, including speaking. *Four mini-tests. *One complete introductory-level practice test and one TOEFL(R)-level test. *Pop-up explanations for all items on the CD-ROM. *Easy-to-usescoring andrecord-keeping to monitor progress.

About Deborah Phillips

Deborah Phillips has been teaching English for over twenty-five years with an emphasis on test preparation and academic skills preparation. She has led seminars and participated in conferences on test preparation and English language teaching in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, France, Spain, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. She currently teaches courses for the certification of teachers in English as a second language at the University of California. Ms. Phillips is the author of the Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL (R) Test series of textbooks and CD-ROMs. She is currently working on new textbooks and CD-ROMs to prepare students for the latest version of the TOEFL (R) test.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

SECTION ONE: READING

READING DIAGNOSTIC PRE-TEST

George Washington Carver

READING OVERVIEW

READING SKILLS

VOCABULARY AND REFERENCE

SKILL 1: UNDERSTAND VOCABULARY FROM CONTEXT

Reading Exercise 1

The Tournament of Roses

Mark Twain

Copernicus

SKILL 2: RECOGNIZE REFERENTS

Reading Exercise 2

Oxygen at High Altitudes

Lascaux Cave

Pepper

Reading Exercise (Skills 1-2)

El Nino

SENTENCES

SKILL 3: SIMPLIFY MEANINGS OF SENTENCES

Reading Exercise 3

Seven Days in a Week

Communications Satellites

Alexander's Gold

SKILL 4: INSERT SENTENCES INTO THE PASSAGE

Reading Exercise 4

Dinosaur Footprints

The Washington Monument

Alex Haley

Reading Exercise (Skills 3-4)

3D Movies

Reading Review Exercise (Skills 1-4)

Paul Revere in Longfellow's Poem

DETAILS

SKILL 5: FIND FACTUAL INFORMATION

Reading Exercise 5

Icebergs

Submarines

Sugar

SKILL 6: UNDERSTAND NEGATIVE FACTS

Reading Exercise 6

The Penguin

Fingerprints

The Tarantella and the Tarantula

Reading Exercise (Skills 5-6)

Medford's Attempted Silk Industry

Reading Review Exercise (Skills 1-6)

The War of 1812

INFERENCES

SKILL 7: MAKE INFERENCES FROM STATED FACTS

Reading Exercise 7

Flour

Machu Picchu

Weightlessness

SKILL 8: INFER RHETORICAL PURPOSE

Reading Exercise 8

Lituya Bay

Cats

The Amazon River System

Reading Exercise (Skills 7-8)

The Pacific Ocean

Reading Review Exercises (Skills 1-8)

Charles Dow

READING TO LEARN

SKILL 9: SELECT SUMMARY INFORMATION

Reading Exercise 9

Stress

Robin Hood

The Pocket Veto

SKILL 10: COMPLETE SCHEMATIC TABLES

Reading Exercise 10

The Mile

Virginia Colony

Venus and Earth

Reading Exercise (Skills 9-10)

The Manned Space Program

Reading Review Exercise (Skills 1-10)

Roald Dahl

READING POST-TEST

A New Idea

SECTION TWO: LISTENING

LISTENING DIAGNOSTIC PRE-TEST

An Economics Class

Antarctica

LISTENING OVERVIEW

LISTENING SKILLS

BASIC COMPREHENSION

SKILL 1: UNDERSTAND THE GIST

Listening Exercise 1

An Exam

A Reading Assignment

Sunspots

SKILL 2: UNDERSTAND THE DETAILS

Listening Exercise 2

The Recital

Carlsbad Caverns

The Grouper

Listening Review Exercise (Skills 1-2)

London Bridge

PRAGMATIC UNDERSTANDING

SKILL 3: UNDERSTAND THE FUNCTION

Listening Exercise 3

Grading

Finding a Book

Rivers

SKILL 4: UNDERSTAND THE SPEAKER'S STANCE

Listening Exercise 4

A Meeting

A Late Paper

Announcements

Listening Exercise (Skills 3-4)

A Music Class

Listening Review Exercise (Skills 1-4)

James Fenimore Cooper

CONNECTING INFORMATION

SKILL 5: UNDERSTAND THE ORGANIZATION

Listening Exercise 5

The City of Chicago

Alpha Centauri

A Course Syllabus

SKILL 6: UNDERSTAND RELATIONSHIPS

Listening Exercise 6

A Missed Exam

The Robin

Auroras

Listening Exercise (Skills 5-6)

Harley-Davidson

Listening Review Exercise (Skills 1-6)

The Mid-Atlantic Bridge

LISTENING POST-TEST

An Exam

The Roosevelts

SECTION THREE: SPEAKING

SPEAKING DIAGNOSTIC PRE-TEST

Reading Materials

Mountains or Ocean

A Dormitory Closing

Tornado Alley

A Biology Class

Man-Eating Clams

SPEAKING OVERVIEW

SPEAKING SKILLS

INDEPENDENT TASKS

SKILL 1: PLAN THE FREE-CHOICE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 1

Sadness

Your Favorite Month

Classmates

SKILL 2: MAKE THE FREE-CHOICE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 2

SKILL 3: PLAN THE PAIRED-CHOICE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 3

Astronaut or Musician

Early or Last-Minute Worker

Love or Money

SKILL 4: MAKE THE PAIRED-CHOICE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 4

Speaking Review Exercise (Skills 1-4)

Hometown Activities

Types of Classes

INTEGRATED TASKS (READING AND LISTENING)

SKILL 5: NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU READ

Speaking Exercise 5

A Professors' Absence

A Memo

Part-time Jobs

SKILL 6: NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU LISTEN

Speaking Exercise 6

A Professors' Absence

A Memo

Part-time Jobs

SKILL 7: PLAN BEFORE YOU SPEAK

Speaking Exercise 7

SKILL 8: MAKE THE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 8

Speaking Review Exercise (Skills 5-8)

An Assignment

SKILL 9: NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU READ

Speaking Exercise 9

Venus

Mountains and Snow

Honeybees

SKILL 10: NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU LISTEN

Speaking Exercise 10

Venus

Mountains and Snow

Honeybees

SKILL 11: PLAN BEFORE YOU SPEAK

Speaking Exercise 11

SKILL 12: MAKE THE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 12

Speaking Review Exercise (Skills 9-12)

Mercantilism

INTEGRATED TASKS (LISTENING)

SKILL 13: NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU LISTEN

Speaking Exercise 13

Tardiness

Class Notes

An Economics Class

SKILL 14: PLAN BEFORE YOU SPEAK

Speaking Exercise 14

SKILL 15: MAKE THE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 15

Speaking Review Exercise (Skills 13-15)

Exam Preparation

SKILL 16: NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU LISTEN

Speaking Exercise 16

The Bald Eagle

Hot-air Balloons

The "Dark Days"

SKILL 17: PLAN BEFORE YOU SPEAK

Speaking Exercise 17

SKILL 18: MAKE THE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 18

Speaking Review Exercise (Skills 16-18)

The Human Brain

SPEAKING POST-TEST

Admirable Person

Getting News

Cafeteria Problem

Social Environments

Class Schedule Problem

Life on Mars

SECTION FOUR: WRITING

WRITING DIAGNOSTIC PRE-TEST

Old World Monkeys

Your Favorite Season

WRITING OVERVIEW

WRITING SKILLS

INTEGRATED TASK

SKILL 1: NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU READ

Writing Exercise 1

U.S. Agriculture

Dolphins

DaVinci's Flight Theory

SKILL 2: NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU LISTEN

Writing Exercise 2

U.S. Agriculture

Dolphins

DaVinci's Flight Theory

SKILL 3: PLAN BEFORE YOU WRITE

Writing Exercise 3

SKILL 4: WRITE A TOPIC STATEMENT

Writing Exercise 4

SKILL 5: WRITE SUPPORTING PARAGRAPHS ON READING PASSAGES

Writing Exercise 5

SKILL 6: WRITE SUPPORTING PARAGRAPHS ON LISTENING PASSAGES

Writing Exercise 6

SKILL 7: REVIEW SENTENCE STRUCTURE

Writing Exercise 7

"News"

SKILL 8: REVIEW GRAMMAR

Writing Exercise 8

The "Halo Effect"

Writing Review Exercise (Skills 1-8)

Decision-Making

INDEPENDENT TASK

SKILL 9: PLAN BEFORE YOU WRITE

Writing Exercise 9

Your English Class

Writing a Paper

Winning $1 Million

SKILL 10: WRITE THE INTRODUCTION

Writing Exercise 10

SKILL 11: WRITE SUPPORTING PARAGRAPHS

Writing Exercise 11

SKILL 12: WRITE THE CONCLUSION

Writing Exercise 12

SKILL 13: REVIEW SENTENCE STRUCTURE

Writing Exercise 13

A Messy Person

SKILL 14: REVIEW GRAMMAR

Writing Exercise 14

Free Time

Writing Exercise (Skills 9-14):

Sleep Preferences

WRITING POST-TEST

A Twelve-Month School Year

Cheating

MINI-TESTS

MINI-TEST 1

Reading: Blood Types

Listening: Attendance

Waterfalls

Speaking: Your Favorite Sport

A Closed Library

George Catlin

Writing: Assateague Island

MINI-TEST 2

Reading: The French Quarter

Listening: A Math Class

Stone Mountain

Speaking: Truth or Lies

Earthquakes

An Exam Discussion

Writing: Vacation Preferences

MINI-TEST 3

Reading: Studebaker

Listening: Library Books

Leland Stanford

Speaking: Activities with Friends

A Lab Report Notice

Injuries

Writing: Life at the Bottom of the Ocean

MINI-TEST 4

Reading: Songs of the Humpback Whale

Listening: The Assignment

Neptune

Speaking: Written or Oral Presentation

The Gettysburg Address

A Research Paper

Writing: The Perfect Boss

COMPLETE TEST

Reading 1 The Comet Shoemaker-Levy

Reading 2 The Age of the Earth

Reading 3 Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Listening A Research Topic

The Assignment

The Pentagon

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Olympus Mons

Dams

Speaking A Gift

Speak or Say Nothing

The Math Syllabus

New Amsterdam

A Math Book

The Continental Divide

Writing Telecommuting

Evening Preferences

TOEFL (R)-LEVEL TEST

Reading Pepper

Listening The Major

The Geodesic Dome

Speaking Personal Descriptions

Planning

Cafeteria Hours

Operant Conditioning

Professor Problems

The Asteroid Belt

Writing Phrenology

Late to Class

APPENDIXES

APPENDIX A: Sentence Structure

APPENDIX B: Error Correction

DIAGNOSIS, ASSESSMENT, AND SCORING

Overall Scores

Reading Diagnosis and Scoring

Listening Diagnosis and Scoring

Speaking Diagnosis and Scoring

Writing Diagnosis and Scoring

RECORDING SCRIPT

ANSWER KEY

Additional information

CIN0132280892A
9780132280891
0132280892
Longman Introductory Course for the TOEFL Test: iBT (without CD-ROM, with Answer Key) (Audio CDs required) by Deborah Phillips
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Pearson Education (US)
2006-10-12
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