Longman Introductory Course for the TOEFL Test: iBT [With CDROM] Book

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 Niño

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 Ridge

LISTENING POST-TEST

An Exam

The Roosevelts

SECTION THREE: SPEAKING

SPEAKING DIAGNOSTIC PRE-TEST

Reading Material

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

Your Dream Job

Memory

The Dormitory Pet Policy

Los Angeles

An English Class Problem

Water in the Past

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 9

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®-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

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