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TOEFL ITP
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TOEFL ITP OVERVIEW
► SECTION 1
LISTENING SECTION
Part A ( 30 Questions )
There will be 30 Short dialogues between 2 people ( Man vs Woman ) and followed by a person
called “ Narrator “ who will question about the dialogues presented, and this is the easiest part of the
Listening which offers the biggest chance to score.
Part B ( 8 Questions )
There will be two (2) long dialogues which are followed by a number of questions at once. You will
hear them on a recording. They aren’t written in your test book. The dialogues are often about aspect
of school life such as “ How hard a class is, how to write a paper and so forth “, in short, they will be
about kinds of news in the U.S.A.
Part C ( 12 Questions )
There will be three (3) talks/ monologues followed by a number of questions. You will hear them on
a recording. They aren’t written in your test book. The dialogues are often about aspect of school life
such as “ How hard a class is, how to write a paper and so forth “, it is also very common for the talks
to be shortened versions of lectures from courses taught in American Universities.
► SECTION 2
STRUCTURE
There are 15 questions for the structure from 1 – 15 that we have to choose the most correct answers.
A. go
B. goes
C. going
D. be going
WRITTEN EXPRESSION
There are 25 questions in the written expression from 16 – 40 which we have to analyse and choose
the most incorrect answers.
► SECTION 3
READING SECTION
There are 5 reading passages in this section followed by 10 – 12 questions each. There are about 7
types of questions used to ask in this section. Those types of reading questions will be discussed
further at the end of this presentation.
The overall questions of this TOEFL is 140 questions with 115 minutes to spend. No extra time
given at the end of the test, so it is highly recommended if you always transfer your answers into the
answer sheet immediately. As there is no penalty for wrong answers, it would be well advised if you
always answer every single question given.
PART A ( 30 Questions )
A. A newspaper editor
B. A police officer
C. A teacher
D. A student
5. Listen for WHO and WHAT in passives
If the dialogue contains a passive statement, the answer to the question is often in an active one and
on the other hand.
When there is more than a noun in a sentence in short dialogues, it’s common for the answer to
confuse which noun does what.
There will be two (2) long dialogues/ conversations followed by 4 questions each. Here are some tips
and tricks taken :
1. Preview the answers to the questions to find out what the dialogue will be about.
2. While looking at the answers, you should try to do the following :
3. Listen carefully to the first and second line of the conversation as they will often contain main
ideas, subjects or topic of the conversation which will often be asked to answer such questions.
4. As you listen to the conversation, draw conclusions about the situation of the conversation :
5. As you listen to the conversation, follow along with the answers in your the test book and try to
determine the correct answers.
6. Detailed questions are generally answered in order in the conversation, and the answers often
sound the same as what is said in the recording.
7. You should guess even if you are not sure. Never leave any answers blank.
8. Use any remaining time to look ahead at the answers to the questions that follow.
PART C ( 12 Questions )
In this part, the listening has exactly the same tips as it does in Part B. the only different is that there
will be 3 – 4 long talks/ monologues followed by a number of questions.
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESION TIPS AND TRICKS
Here are some quick steps in understanding grammatical tips and tricks :
► SUBJECT in each question. There are some parts of speech which stand for it :
1. Noun : Concrete
: Common Book ...
: Material Water ...
: Proper Any Names ...
: Collective Family ...
► VERB
Adjective ( verb 3 )
2. Auxiliary Primary Be Present : is, am, are, being, do..., have ...
► OBJECT OF PREPOSITION
An Object of Preposition is a noun, pronoun, gerund or noun clause that comes after one of
prepositions such as
A. Simple preposition ( in, on, at, after, before, with ...),
B. Complex preposition ( because of, in spite of, as a result of ...) that form a prepositional phrase.
An Appositive is a noun or noun phrase which comes before or after another noun and has the same
meaning.
It is normally written either in the front or in the middle of a sentence :
Example : An excellent basketball player, Sally seldom misses her basketball shots.
Sally, An excellent basketball player, seldom misses her basketball shots.
Note : Both Objects of Prepositions and Appositives will never stand for Subjects.
EXERCISE
1. A pride of lions ... up to forty lions, including one to three males, several females, and cubs.
A. it contains
B. can contain
C. contain
D. containing
2. A computerised map of the freeways using information gathered by sensors embedded in the
pavement ..... on a local cable channel during rush hours.
A. air
B. airs
C. airing
D. is airing
3. The loaves of bread was baked in a brick oven a low temperature for many hours.
A B C D
4. The chapters were taught by the professor this morning will be on next week’s exam.
A B C D
5. For the last three years at various hospitals in the country, they has been practicing medicine.
A B C D
READING TIPS AND TRICKS
► QUESTION TYPES
4. PRONOUN REFERENTS
6. VOCABULARY QUESTIONS
The hippopotamus is the third largest land animal, smaller only than the elephant and the
rhinoceros. Its name comes from two Greek words which mean “river horse”. The long name of
this animal is often shortened to the easier to handle term “ hippo “.
The hippo has natural affinity for the water. It does not float on top of the water; instead, it
can easily walks along the bottom of a body of water. The hippo commonly remains under water
for three to five minutes and has been known to stay under for up to half an hour before coming
up for air.
In spite of its name, the hippo has relatively little in common with the horse and instead has
a number of interesting similarities in common with the whale. When a hippo comes up after a
stay at the bottom of a lake or river, it releases air through a blowhole, just like a whale. In
addition, the hippo resembles the whale in that they both have thick layers of blubber for
protection and they are almost completely hairless.
A. Hippopotamus
B. Elephant
C. Rhinoceros
D. Horse
4. According to the passage, what to the maximum time that hippos have been known to stay
underwater?
A. Three minutes
B. Five minutes
C. Thirty minutes
D. Ninety minutes
5. The passage states that one way in which a hippo similar to a whale is that