The best TOEFL & TOEIC Tests books: Reddit reviews

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Lol I don’t have booze recommendations but I didn’t come empty handed

Cursive Handwriting Workbook for Kids: 3-in-1 Writing Practice Book to Master Letters, Words & Sentences https://www.amazon.com/dp/1790852579/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_42llFbQVVRX2C

Maybe this one?

English Made Easy Volume One: A New ESL Approach: Learning English Through Pictures (Free Online Audio) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804845247/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_76WKMQRHCJDXBC2P71W4

Cool, I get to post the first really bitchy answer.

"So I recently got a job at this hospital, as a surgeon or whatever, now I have a bunch of people signed up for surgeries. One guy says he wants me to remove his appendix... how should I do it?"

"A few weeks ago I decided to start working as an electrician. I got a job on this construction site. They gave me a bunch of wires and stuff. What should I do with them?"

You get the idea. Teaching is a profession, not just a thing you show up and do. Modern language teaching is based on decades of theory and evidence which are constantly being updated. If you want to be a good teacher, get training as a teacher. At the very least invest in literature for beginning teachers - read through this book then get back to us with any questions.

My study plan is almost free since I self study completely. My weaknesses are the speaking and writing sections so I put a lot of emphasis on those.

• Write your own templates Coming up with words and sentences is quite difficult for me, so I wrote some templates beforehand. Common ones include “Firstly…Secondly…In conclusion…” sth like that as long as they are applicable in most topics. Just make sure to write the templates yourself so you can memorize them. I got 28 on writing and 24 on speaking with the help of templates.

• Speak loudly The computer testing raises the difficulty especially in speaking. Do NOT rush words or try to maximize you content. Conciseness and clarity are your main goals. Recording your own response and reviewing it can give you a good idea about how well you perform.

• Practice TOEFL Reading is pretty easy when compared to that of SAT, and it’s probably the most interesting among all of the reading comprehension tests I’ve taken. Engaged in what you’re reading and you’re good to go.

• Resources I borrow this book from my school and finished about half of it. Any practice materials with credibility can help. I crammed the videos of this YouTube channel, and it helps me improve a lot.

If I'm just making a quick note for myself, it's really scruffy, but both cursive and block are very neat if I'm writing something for somebody else to read. When I was young, my parents got me to write and rewrite stuff over and over following examples in books like THIS.

I think the primary reason people don't have good handwriting now is because we are all so used to typing stuff out on computers and mobile devices, so without using the skill it's unlikely to improve.

Eu usei este aqui https://www.amazon.com/Official-Guide-TOEFL-Test-CD-ROM/dp/0071766588

Só vale a pena se vc fizer os simulados respeitando o limite de tempo. Como já disseram, tem muito material grátis na internet. Boa sorte!

Most hagwons won't expect you to know anything about lesson planning. Nonetheless, I always recommend Jeremy Harmer's How to Teach English as a primer for new teachers. It covers the basics of everything you'll need to know to get started. I use his Engage - Study - Activate (ESA) model for lesson planning in a teacher training course that I teach. It's simple yet useful for people new to lesson planning.

If you just have Korean students speaking English with other Korean students, they'll be practicing what they already know, but not learning anything new. Students need instruction and guided practice before moving on to free practice. If you need help with lesson planning, Jeremy Harmer's How to Teach English is a pretty good primer in ELT.

The best advice I can give you is just to practice as much as possible before the exam. If you want to buy a book to help you, this is the one I use with my students. It's quite a tome though, so I sometimes recommend this one

They have practice papers as well as very handy tips and useful phrases to help you.

Good luck!

I also flipped through The Practice of English Language Teaching but I didn't read it in depth so I can't quite say. Amazon apparently has a table of contents in the preview section for How to Teach English so you could take a look at that to see if it's a retread or not.

I've had some students who liked to go through TOEIC sample test books like this one and we'd do a test-teach-test class to identify what they struggled with. Also, it gives you an idea of what the format is and how to prepare future lessons. I'm sure they're torrent-able.

If your students aren't taking the speaking and writing portions (which I don't have a lot of experience with) prepare receptive skills lesson to work on their timed reading and listening skills.

Compelling Conversations is great for sparking discussion. As far as getting him to speak with longer sentences, don't accept simple or boring answers.

American Accent Training has a lot of unique pronunciation exercises. One thing to focus on with (among many others) Japanese students is word stress. In Japanese, each syllable is given equal stress, whereas in English we only emphasize part of each word, and only important words in sentences. I've found that improving pronunciation through stress activities is a lot more effective in the short term than worrying about phoneme mistakes. The difference between /l/ and /r/ is fucking hard for Japanese students to overcome, even advanced ones.