Saturday, May 2, 2009

Lifelong Learing: TOEFL

TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language
The world's most common requirement for university and college admissions, ETS TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) is an English proficiency test .

ESLPod.com's Guide to the TOEFL® Test Podcast
Dr Jeff McQuillan and Dr Lisa Tse produced a series of 29 podcasts focusing on the academic life of a first year community college student preparing to take the TOFL test.

TOEFL Essay Blog
Sample essay questions sorted by topic.


Listen: VOA Foreign Student Series: First Steps On EDUCATION REPORT: In part two of our series on American higher education, advice about where to get information on colleges and universities. 17 September 2008


HOMEWORK

Questions: Prepositions of Place pg 68

Match

  1. b
  2. e
  3. d
  4. c
  5. f
  6. a

Complete the sentences

  1. The woman is near the car.
  2. The Silvas are inside their car.
  3. Roberto and Adela are sitting in front of Cruz.
  4. They are sitting next to each other.
  5. Cruz is sitting behind her parents.
  6. The woman is pointing across College Avenue.

Adjective Superlatives pg 69

Complete the sentences w/ superlatives.

  1. It (the Southwest) the driest weather.
  2. The North Central states have the heaviest snowfalls.
  3. They often have the wettest springs, too.
  4. The South usually has the mildest winters.
  5. But it often had the most humid summers.
  6. The Northwest usually has the rainiest weather in the nation.
  7. But it also has the greenest summers.

Write the sentences with superlatives.

  1. She brings the newest clothes when she travels.
  2. Cruz is the fastest packer in the family.
  3. She is the messiest and most careless one, too.
  4. That's because she's the most impatient member of the family.