Friday, September 28, 2007

Fluency topic cards for iBT TOEFL Test Prep

Remember the topic cards we used last week for a fluency activity? Well, click here to download your own set. (The file is 31 pages long.)

We talked about this as, besides great speaking practice in general, a specific way to prepare for the new Internet-based TOEFL. If you want to use these cards in this way, you might want to have a look at the Independent Speaking Rubric ETS (Educational Testing Service) uses to evaluate responses on the test. (The rubric is a pdf file. Click here if you need to download the latest Adobe Reader.) It might also be helpful to see an Overview of the test.

8 comments:

EliAcosta said...

Thanks for sharing them with us, they will be very useful since the mid term is coming, I'll use them in my oral exam :)

Mark Anthony said...

Thank you so much Ross, I´m sure those cards are going to be verey, very helpful for all of us and, of course, our pupils.

thanks again.

Mark Anthony said...

That's a good idea Liz, to use them for the mid-term oral ex.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing your material with us, I'll use them for my laboratory class, where the main objective is speaking and writing.

Anonymous said...

Did I wrote writing???? sorry I meant Listening. You know... working at this time. I'm falling asleep

Anonymous said...

I have noticed that sometimes for people that aren't very talkative in general, no matter the language, it's kind of hard to cover the amount of time required.
I tried them with a group of intermediate students, and that's what I noticed. What can we do in these cases? Any suggestion?

Sandrabt said...

Quite interesting! I haven´t attended the last two sessions, but I guess this gives me a picture of what you have done.
Really nice of you.

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