TOEFL ITP

TEST OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

INSTITUTIONAL TESTING PROGRAM

PAPER BASED
 TOEFL ITP SECTIONS
SECTION NUMBER ADMINISTRATION SCORE SCALE
OF TIME
QUESTIONS
LISTENING 50 35 MINUTES 31-68
COMPREHENSION
STRUCTURE & 40 25 MINUTES 31-68
WRITTEN EXPRESSION
READING 50 55 MINUTES 31-67
COMPREHENSION
TOTAL 140 115 MINUTES 310-677
 SECTION II
PART QUESTIONS TO ANALYZE
STRUCTURE 1-15 SIMPLE SENTENCES
COMPLEX SENTENCES
WRITTEN EXPRESSION 16-40 INCORRECT USE OF A WORD OR
GROUP OF WORDS
 EXAMPLES
STRUCTURE SENTENCES (1-15)
SIMPLE S. Refrigerating meats ______ the spread of bacteria.
a.retards
b.retarding
c.to retard
d.is retarded
COMPLEX S. The fact _____ money orders can usually be easily cashed has made
them a popular form of payment.
a.of
b.that
c.is that
d.which is
 EXAMPLES
SENTENCES (16-40) OF WRITTEN EXPRESSION

1. Serving several term in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an

A B
important United States politician
C D

2. Electrical disturbances on Earth are frequently caused with

A B C
storms on the surface of the sun.
D
 BE FAMILIAR WITH SUBJECT & VERB
SUBJECT = NOUN
MODIFYING EXAMPLE EXAMPLE TYPES OF NOUN
NOUN
ADJECTIVE blue, large, tiny, beautiful, shy, Mary, India, and Manchester PROPER
talkative, four, numerous, this United.
PARTICIPLE (-ed, -ing and other verb forms): girl, country, and team COMMON
grinning, broken, despised,
dripping, torn
PREPOSITION With , in, of , by ball, rainbow and melody CONCRETE
ARTICLE a, an, the love, courage, and childhood ABSTRACT
POSSESSIVE my, your, his, her, our, their, its toys, children and books COUNTABLE
PRONOUN
QUANTIFIER Much, a little, amount of sympathy, laughter and NON-COUNTABLE
All, enough, some, any, lots of oxygen
Many, few, a number of, several
flock, committee and murder COLLECTIVE
learning, shopping, surfing GERUND
I, we, you, they, he, she, it PERSONAL
PRONOUN
 AUXILIARY VERBS
subject Auxiliary Verbs Words that follow
I am, was talking, joking v- ing
He, she, it is, was here, adverb
We, you, they are, were happy, lovely (adjective)
stolen (past participle/ V3 as passive)

I, we, you, they do not know

He, she, it does not agree negative and question forms

I, we, you, they, did not like it

He, she, it
I, we, you, they have gone
He, she, it has
left past participle
I, we, you, they, had
He, she, it
I, we, you, they, can, could, will, would, read, be, base form of verb
He, she, it shall, should, may,
might, must
 LEXICAL VERBS
TYPES EXAMPLES
DYNAMIC grow, play
STATIVE hate, belong
REGULAR finished, worked
IRREGULAR sought (seek), fell (fall)
TRANSITIVE answer
INTRANSITIVE tremble
CATENATIVE want, seem
LINKING VERBS appear, be, become, feel, look, prove, seem,
smell, taste
 CANNOT FUNCTION AS VERBS
EXAMPLES KINDS OF WORDS SENTENCES
TALKING, PRESENT PARTICIPLE We (are ) talking
BREATHING
TO INFORM, TO TO INFINITIVE I (want) to inform you
EXECUTE something
GONE, STUDIED PAST PARTICIPLE/ V 3 It (is) gone
(REGULAR/ IRREGULAR) English studied here (is
taught) from elementary up
to advanced level.