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Independent Speaking: Organizing Speech Skill A Necessary Skills • Describing a personal experience or expressing a personal preference • Organizing ideas • Expressing a clear topic sta

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TOEFL ®

Skills

Beginning

Table of

Introduction to TOEFL ® Speaking - - - - 6

Chapter 1 Thinking and Speaking Skill A Independent Speaking: Organizing Speech - - - - 15

Skill B Integrated Speaking: Synthesizing Information - - - - 31

Skill C Integrated Speaking: Stating Opinions and Summarizing - - - - 53

Vocabulary Review - - - - 69

Chapter 2 Making Speech Coherent Skill A Independent Speaking: Test Questions 1 and 2 - - - - 77

Skill B Integrated Speaking: Test Questions 3 and 4 - - - - 101

Skill C Integrated Speaking: Test Questions 5 and 6 - - - - 115

Vocabulary Review - - - - 125

Chapter 3 Speaking Naturally Focus A Pronunciation - - - - 138

Focus B Word and Sentence Stress - - - - 140

Focus C Pausing - - - - 142

Practice Test for Speaking - - - - 143

Transcripts - - - -157

Answer Key - - - - 167

Independent Speaking: Organizing Speech Skill A

Necessary Skills

• Describing a personal experience or expressing a personal preference

• Organizing ideas

• Expressing a clear topic statement and the supporting points

• Speaking clearly and accurately with knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation

Strategies

• Though preparation time is limited in the speaking portion of the test, it is nevertheless important to use this time in planning the organization of your response In this way, your response will be more relevant and coherent An organizational process for preparing your speech is detailed below In each step, there are certain things that you need to keep in mind

Read the question and understand the task

Be sure that you understand the question and what the question requires you to do

Decide on the topic statement

Decide on the main idea or choose one of the positions Use the relevant parts of the prompt in making up your topic statement

Brainstorm and select supporting ideas

Quickly think of the supporting ideas from your experience

Choose those ideas that most clearly support your topic statement

Organize the ideas Arrange your ideas, putting them in order from most to least

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Read the question Write down your answer and related key points in the blanks

Step 1

What is a useful skill your mother or father taught you? Describe the skill and how you were taught this skill

A useful skill my taught me is _

When/How I was taught this skill: Why this skill is important: _ How often I use this skill:

Read the related ideas and expressions below Add at least two of your own

Related Ideas and Expressions

Nouns:

laundry, money, motor, _, _

Verbs:

manage, operate, repair, _, _

Adverbs:

nowadays, usually, all the time, _, _

laundry (n):

dirty clothes that need to be washed

manage (v):

to control; to operate

operate (v):

to control; to cause to work

repair (v):

to fix

nowadays (adv):

in present times; these days

P ractice 1 Personal Experience Skill A Q 1

Notes

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Listen to a sample response Write down any useful expressions.

Now create your own response using words and expressions from Steps 1 and 2 Use the prompts below to help you.

A useful skill my taught me is He/She taught me this skill by _ when I was From this, I learned how to _ Today, I use this skill _ when I

Read the response you wrote above out loud Try to read the response slowly and clearly Practice saying the whole response several times Then close your book and say the response without looking at the words.

Step 4 Step 3 Step 2

Read and think about the question below.

Step 1

The sentences below make up part of a response to the question above Read the sentences, and underline any transitions you find

(A) Another reason I enjoy writing poetry is because I can think about things in new ways

(B) In fact, I do this all the time without getting paid because I enjoy writing poetry

(C) One kind of work I am willing to do, even if I never get paid for it,

is writing poetry

(D) One reason I enjoy writing poetry is that it lets me create something beautiful

(E) When I think about things in new, innovative ways, even boring things around my house can become inspiring

(F) When people create something beautiful, it gives them a good feeling

Look at the sentences again Think of the role of each sentence in the response Put the sentences

in the right order

What kind of work are you willing to do even if you never get paid for it? Explain what you enjoy about this work or how you benefit even without pay

P ractice 1 - Personal Experience Skill A Q 1

get paid (v phrase):

to receive money for work

poetry (n):

literary writing done in short lines and verses, usually using symbolic language

create (v):

to make; to produce

innovative (adj):

new and unique; unlike past objects or ideas

inspiring (adj):

stimulating; tending to increase interest

Do NOT look at the sentences in Step 1 Answer the following questions

1 What kind of work does the speaker do even though she never gets paid?

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2 What is one reason she enjoys doing this?

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3 What is another reason she enjoys doing this?

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Using the short answers you wrote above, try to speak for 60 seconds explaining the speaker’s response Use the words and phrases below while you are speaking Time yourself and record the time below.

Response 1: Speaking time: _ seconds

Now, listen to a sample response How is this response different from yours? What parts of the response can you use in your own? Write down any useful expressions the sample uses.

Listen again and repeat after the tape, paying attention to pronunciation, intonation, and word stress

Step 3 another reason because even if one kind of one reason when Step 2

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Now write your own answers to these questions.

1 What kind of work are you willing to do even if you never get paid?

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2 What is one reason you enjoy doing this?

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3 What is another reason you enjoy doing this?

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Using the short answers you wrote above, give a spoken response to the prompt below Try to incorporate additional parts of speech from Step 3, while also paying attention to your pronunciation and intonation Record your time.

Response 2: Speaking time: _ seconds

Step 4

What kind of work are you willing to do even if you never get paid for it? Explain what you enjoy about this work or how you benefit even without pay

Focus A - Pronunciation

Final consonant sounds

Read each of the following sentences out loud, accurately pronouncing the final consonants

of each word

1 Let’s eat some meat 4 If you dance, you will enjoy it.

2 Dan likes jazz and pop 5 I broke the dish set.

3 Did you hear the lion roar? 6 That hat is black.

Now, listen and repeat

Commonly mispronounced sounds: /th/, /d/, and /s/

Listen to the audio recording, paying particular attention to the /th/, /d/, and /s/ sounds Mark the first word spoken in each pair

1 thought 2 thigh 3 both 4 scathe

5 thank 6 though 7 thin 8 thorn

Now, listen and repeat

Step 2

Step 1

In English, most words end in consonant sounds In many other languages, however, words that end in vowel sounds are more common, leading many non-native speakers to mispronounce final consonant sounds Mispronunciation of final consonant sounds can lead to confusion and misinterpretation on the part of the listener

Another common problem for non-native English speakers is the pronunciation of /th/, /d/, and /s/ The following pairs often cause difficulties for non-native speakers

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necessary information to the listeners Some English sounds are difficult to pronounce and mispronunciations of these sounds can result in a change in the meaning of the word