To improve students' skills in English, nowadays English test has been adjusted with international standard: TOEIC or TOEFL. So that's way, English for final test today, is so similar with TOEIC or TOEFL test, that oblige the students to answer questions in listening section, error recognition, etc. And now, to help students in preparing 2nd semester or final exam, especially in preparing English test (that will be held in the next few months), we'd like to serve the guidance. This guidance also can be used to prepare TOEIC or TOEFL test.
1. LISTENING SECTION
- THE PICTURE SECTION (PHOTOGRAPH)
a. Take a quick look at the photograph before you hear the four statements, then you ask yourselves these questions: where was it taken?, what is the main subject?, what is happening?, and who are the people?
b. Be aware to the contraction: He's (he is or he has), It's (it is or it has), etc.
c. Grammatical forms usually used are Present tense, Present continuous, Present perfect, and Future tense.
d. Be careful with the statement about photograph. Half of sentence might be true, but another half is not. For example: "He is adjusting the dials on a television set". In the picture you may see somebody is adjusting something, but not of TV.
- THE QUESTION RESPONSE
a. In this section you may have to understand well about kinds / types of questions. You have to understand some expressions used to match the question type, which begin with common offer markers.
b. Most questions about people begin with "Who" or "What". These questions are generally answered by a person's title, occupation, or relationship to another person.
c. Most questions about time begin with "When" or "How long". These questions are generally answered by time of day, days of the week, seasons, and dates.
d. Most questions about opinions begin with "What" and answered by complete sentences that begin with "It" or clauses that begin with "That".
e. Some opinion questions begin with an auxiliary.
-THE SHORT CONVERSATION
a. Before you listen to the compact disk or tape, you should read the question first, and if possible with the four options available on your test book.
b. It's very important to imagine the setting of the conversation and who is speaking: Who are the speakers?, Where are they?, What are they doing?, What is their relationship?.
c. Knowing certain vocabularies in the conversation will help you to figure out the setting. When you hear words such as assembly line, shift, plant supervisor, foreman, etc. you might guess that the conversation is in a factory. If you hear patients, doctor, x-ray, medicine, etc. you might guess that the conversation takes place in a hospital.
d. Be aware of different ways of answering the questions.
e. Look at all four choices carefully before listening and answering questions.
f. You should understand the purpose of the question.
-THE SHORT TALK
a. Before listening to the compact disk or tape, you are hoped to read the question and the four possible answers.
b. To answer the questions about details, you will need to pay good attention to specific facts, times, and dates.
c. Don't worry if you don't understand every word of the talk.
d. Listen to the whole talk before answering the questions.
e. Pay special attention to the introduction and the first part of the talk.
f. The information that you need to answer a question may not always be stated directly. You may need to make inferences, or draw conclusion from the information given in the talk.
2. READING SECTION
- THE INCOMPLETE SENTENCES
a. Prepare yourselves for the English grammar well.
b. Pay good attention to the materials such as invitation, agreeing and disagreeing, telephone handling, describing people or thing, preferences, past events, plans, directions and locations, whishes and imaginary, reservation, expressing sympathy, suggestion and advice, and expressing possibilities.
- THE ERROR RECOGNITION
a. Be careful to the destructors in each sentence.
b. Pay good attention to the materials such as invitation, agreeing and disagreeing, telephone handling, describing people or thing, preferences, past events, plans, directions and locations, whishes and imaginary, reservation, expressing sympathy, suggestion and advice, and expressing possibilities.
c. Remember that the words NOT underlined are correct.
d. Think of the agreement between subject and the verb, and the agreement between a pronoun and a noun to which it refers.
e. Become familiar with phrasal verbs and collocations.
f. Consider the structure of complex sentences (dependent and independent clauses).
g. Study the sentence for indications of time and space.
- THE READING COMPREHENSION
a. Letters (general information, detail information, follow up, synonym).
b. Command and request / instruction (general information, scanning, skimming, antonym).
c. Describing people (main idea, skimming, scanning, antonym).
d. Talking about transportation (general information, detail information, skimming, synonym).
e. Describing process (general information, detail information, antonym).
1. LISTENING SECTION
- THE PICTURE SECTION (PHOTOGRAPH)
a. Take a quick look at the photograph before you hear the four statements, then you ask yourselves these questions: where was it taken?, what is the main subject?, what is happening?, and who are the people?
b. Be aware to the contraction: He's (he is or he has), It's (it is or it has), etc.
c. Grammatical forms usually used are Present tense, Present continuous, Present perfect, and Future tense.
d. Be careful with the statement about photograph. Half of sentence might be true, but another half is not. For example: "He is adjusting the dials on a television set". In the picture you may see somebody is adjusting something, but not of TV.
- THE QUESTION RESPONSE
a. In this section you may have to understand well about kinds / types of questions. You have to understand some expressions used to match the question type, which begin with common offer markers.
b. Most questions about people begin with "Who" or "What". These questions are generally answered by a person's title, occupation, or relationship to another person.
c. Most questions about time begin with "When" or "How long". These questions are generally answered by time of day, days of the week, seasons, and dates.
d. Most questions about opinions begin with "What" and answered by complete sentences that begin with "It" or clauses that begin with "That".
e. Some opinion questions begin with an auxiliary.
-THE SHORT CONVERSATION
a. Before you listen to the compact disk or tape, you should read the question first, and if possible with the four options available on your test book.
b. It's very important to imagine the setting of the conversation and who is speaking: Who are the speakers?, Where are they?, What are they doing?, What is their relationship?.
c. Knowing certain vocabularies in the conversation will help you to figure out the setting. When you hear words such as assembly line, shift, plant supervisor, foreman, etc. you might guess that the conversation is in a factory. If you hear patients, doctor, x-ray, medicine, etc. you might guess that the conversation takes place in a hospital.
d. Be aware of different ways of answering the questions.
e. Look at all four choices carefully before listening and answering questions.
f. You should understand the purpose of the question.
-THE SHORT TALK
a. Before listening to the compact disk or tape, you are hoped to read the question and the four possible answers.
b. To answer the questions about details, you will need to pay good attention to specific facts, times, and dates.
c. Don't worry if you don't understand every word of the talk.
d. Listen to the whole talk before answering the questions.
e. Pay special attention to the introduction and the first part of the talk.
f. The information that you need to answer a question may not always be stated directly. You may need to make inferences, or draw conclusion from the information given in the talk.
2. READING SECTION
- THE INCOMPLETE SENTENCES
a. Prepare yourselves for the English grammar well.
b. Pay good attention to the materials such as invitation, agreeing and disagreeing, telephone handling, describing people or thing, preferences, past events, plans, directions and locations, whishes and imaginary, reservation, expressing sympathy, suggestion and advice, and expressing possibilities.
- THE ERROR RECOGNITION
a. Be careful to the destructors in each sentence.
b. Pay good attention to the materials such as invitation, agreeing and disagreeing, telephone handling, describing people or thing, preferences, past events, plans, directions and locations, whishes and imaginary, reservation, expressing sympathy, suggestion and advice, and expressing possibilities.
c. Remember that the words NOT underlined are correct.
d. Think of the agreement between subject and the verb, and the agreement between a pronoun and a noun to which it refers.
e. Become familiar with phrasal verbs and collocations.
f. Consider the structure of complex sentences (dependent and independent clauses).
g. Study the sentence for indications of time and space.
- THE READING COMPREHENSION
a. Letters (general information, detail information, follow up, synonym).
b. Command and request / instruction (general information, scanning, skimming, antonym).
c. Describing people (main idea, skimming, scanning, antonym).
d. Talking about transportation (general information, detail information, skimming, synonym).
e. Describing process (general information, detail information, antonym).
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