TOEIC®
// EXAM PREPARATION
On completion of the course students will know how to do the following noted in “Course
content” in these different areas.
TOEIC®
// EXAM PREPARATION
Audience Any person wishing to prepare the TOEIC® exam
COURSE CONTENT
Listening
• Fully comprehend specific points about all frequent
TOEIC topics
• Fully comprehend specific details in broadcast or
recorded material at native speaker speed with
different native speaker accents
• Fully comprehend details in the news, lectures,
meetings, conferences, talks and discussions
• Comprehend implied and inferred meaning
• Comprehend discourse including idioms and
colloquialisms
• Avoid “distractors”.
Reading
• Fully comprehend factual, academic and
professional material ( business correspondence,
reports, newsletters, magazines and articles )
• Fully appreciate main details in official information
sources ( online web page, official texts )
• Skim material for general information
• Scan material for specific information
• Fully comprehend sub themes and supporting
details in a text
• Paraphrase and synthesise the main points in a text
• Process information
• Avoid “distractors”.
Speaking
• Speak extensively about all everyday and
professional themes with fluency and autonomy
• Respond to questions with or without provided
information
• Express detailed, supported opinion
• Make suggestions and propose solutions
• Develop ordered arguments and integrate sub
themes
• Incorporate a wide range of collocations and
colloquialism
• Eliminate false friends whilst speaking
• Provide convincing conclusions.
Writing
• Write formal, structured academic essays of opinion
based on topic based issues
• Describe visual material
• Respond to specific questions in an e mail
• Fully synthesise, paraphrase and evaluate
information
• Eliminate false friends whilst writing
• Make full use of proof reading and editing skills.
Grammar revision
• Past, present and future tenses
• Passive forms
• Modal verbs
• Conditional forms
• Phrasal Verbs and prepositional phrases
• Adverbs and adverbial phrases
• Prepositional phrases
• Comparative and superlative forms
• Inversion fronting (after negative and restrictive
adverbials).
Topics
• Jobs and professional activity
• Office life
• Banking
• Education
• Lifestyle and current affairs
• Entertainment
• Health
• Housing
• Industry
• Transport and travel
• Scientific, technological and medical development.