Shouldn’t Need To Write Down Everything
Note Taking
Successful TOEFL students are good to note takers. Questions in the listening do not allow the students to answer them as they hear them but encourage the students to take notes, with the questions appearing on the screen after the passage. The teacher needs to teach the students some methods on how to take effective notes and to organize information in a way that they can understand and refer to later on. They shouldn’t need to write down everything they hear, but only take down what’s relevant.
Integrated Mayhem
This is a unique point for both teacher and student, as English language training is generally broken down into the four parts of speaking, reading, writing and listening. The TOEFL examination is unique as it forces the students to use multiple skills when answering a single question. More than just using the two skills, it involves effective note-taking skills and structure. The unfortunate aspect of the integrated components is if a student is weak in one area, their score on the overall question will be lower. To teach the integrated task effectively to students, teachers must start simple. The best way to introduce students to the integrated task is to give them news articles to read, then watch a TV news bulletin on the same subject and then get them to use their notes to give a quick talk about it. It is quite likely that the students have never done any exercises like this, so start them off on sometimes simple and then slowly increase in difficulty.
Successful TOEFL students are good to note takers. Questions in the listening do not allow the students to answer them as they hear them but encourage the students to take notes, with the questions appearing on the screen after the passage. The teacher needs to teach the students some methods on how to take effective notes and to organize information in a way that they can understand and refer to later on. They shouldn’t need to write down everything they hear, but only take down what’s relevant.
Integrated Mayhem
This is a unique point for both teacher and student, as English language training is generally broken down into the four parts of speaking, reading, writing and listening. The TOEFL examination is unique as it forces the students to use multiple skills when answering a single question. More than just using the two skills, it involves effective note-taking skills and structure. The unfortunate aspect of the integrated components is if a student is weak in one area, their score on the overall question will be lower. To teach the integrated task effectively to students, teachers must start simple. The best way to introduce students to the integrated task is to give them news articles to read, then watch a TV news bulletin on the same subject and then get them to use their notes to give a quick talk about it. It is quite likely that the students have never done any exercises like this, so start them off on sometimes simple and then slowly increase in difficulty.
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