Spanish-American Institute

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To:      All Faculty, Staff and Students

From:  Carolyn Prager, Dean of Academic Affairs

Re:      “Have Fun with TOEFL”:  Downloadable  iBT Activities

Date:  June 4, 2007

 

If you have not done so already, check out the top ten TOEFL iBT activities on the Longaman’s website at:  http://www.longman.com/ae/marketing/toefl/.  The activities can be downloaded in multiple copies for class use. 

 

The following chart shows the correlation of each of the ten activities to a specific iBT activity or skill.   

 

Have Fun With TOEFL®: Top Ten TOEFL® iBT Activities
by Nicole Barens and Carole Wolak
Activity-Test Correlation Chart

 Activity Name ®

 

Test Correlation ¯

Back Talk

If I Were a Ghost

Lecture Conjecture

Outline-Up

PhD Bingo

Get to the Point

Take Note

Tic-Tac-TOEFL

To the Races

Would You Rather?

Listening

 

 

X

 

X

X

X

 

 

 

Reading

 

 

 

 

X

X

 

X

X

 

Independent Writing

 

X

 

X

X

 

 

X

 

X

Integrated Writing

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

X

 

 

Independent Speaking

 

X

 

X

X

 

X

X

 

X

Integrated Speaking

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

 

 

 

Skimming & Scanning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

Note Taking

 

 

X

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

Outlining

 

 

X

X

 

 

X

 

 

 

Paraphrasing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

Summarizing

X

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary Building

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

X

 

 

Conditionals

 

X