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The Intensive Prep for the TOEFL Test course
is designed for students seeking both a high score on the TOEFL test and the general
English skills necessary for success in university studies. Course Content
This 30-hour-per-week course consists of two parts. Two lessons per day focus on the test
itself: You learn about the different types of questions in the three parts of the test
(Listening Comprehension, Structure and Written Expression, and Vocabulary and Reading
Comprehension), study test-taking techniques, and answer and discuss sample test items.
Two complete practice tests and numerous mini-tests are administered during the four-week
session.
Your remaining four lessons are spent improving your skills needed for success in an
academic environment through involvement in normal segments of the ELS Language Centers
Intensive English Course.
Length
The course material is divided to form two distinct four-week modules, which means that
you can take the TOEFL course two sessions in a row without repeating content.
Examples of the skills taught in Module A and Module B
Module A
- Listening Comprehension
- Identifying words that are pronounced the same but have
different meanings
- Understanding negative meaning
- Predicting the topic from the first statement
- Understanding referents in a passage
- Identifying how much and how many
- Structure and Written Expression
- Identifying the need for articles
- Checking the pronoun form
- Choosing the correct subject
- Recognizing the active and passive voices
- Correcting word order
- Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension
- Identifying synonyms
- Finding unrelated words
- Locating referents
- Selecting a topic sentence
Locating restated information
Module B
- Listening Comprehension
- Understanding modals
- Inferring activities through vocabulary
- Drawing conclusions
- Inferring feelings, attitudes, and personality traits
- Remembering details
- Structure and Written Expression
- Identifying noun clauses
- Choosing the correct clause marker
- Identifying adjective phrases and clauses
- Locating subjects and verbs
- Checking parallel comparatives
- Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension
- Adding vocabulary with prefixes and roots
- Identifying inferences in statements
- Locating inferred information
- Completing short sentences
- Completing short passages
- Location
- USA locations (not offered at Semi-Intensive program
locations)
Dates Offered
Every session
Minimum English Requirement
ELS Language Centers Level 106 (high-intermediate)
Program Cost
$1,305 plus $50 student health insurance
Housing Options
Apartment, Campus Residence Hall, Homestay (options vary by location)
OVERVIEW OF THE COMPUTER-BASED TOEFL TEST
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
PART A: SHORT CONVERSATIONS
1. MEANING QUESTIONS
2. IMPLICATION QUESTIONS
3. REFERENCE QUESTIONS
4. ACTION QUESTIONS
5. SUGGESTION QUESTIONS
6. ASSUMPTION QUESTIONS
7. INFERENTIAL QUESTIONS
8. SUBJECT QUESTIONS
9. PROBLEM QUESTIONS
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
PART B: LONG CONVERSATIONS.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
PART B: ACADEMIC MINITALKS.
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION (FILL IN THE BLANK)
1. SIMPLE SENTENCE: VERB
2. SIMPLE SENTENCE: PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
3. SIMPLE SENTENCE: SUBJECT
4. SIMPLE SENTENCE: CONNECTOR
5. SIMPLE SENTENCE: WORD ORDER
6. SIMPLE SENTENCE: INFINITIVE
7. SIMPLE SENTENCE: PARALLEL STRUCTURE
8. SIMPLE SENTENCE: APPOSITIVE
9. COMPLEX SENTENCE: ADJECTIVE CLAUSE
10. COMPLEX SENTENCE: ADVERB CLAUSE
11. COMPLEX SENTENCE: MAIN VERB
12. COMPLEX SENTENCE: WORD ORDER
13. COMPLEX SENTENCE: NOUN CLAUSE
14. COMPLEX SENTENCE: MAIN SUBJECT
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION (UNDERLINES)
1. WORD FORM
2. PREPOSITIONS
3. ADJECTIVES
4. VERB TENSE AND FORM
5. ARTICLES
6. USAGE
7. NUMBER
8. CONNECTORS
9. AGREEMENT
10. REPEATED SUBJECT
11. RELATIVE PRONOUNS
12. WORD ORDER
13. READING COMPREHENSION |
