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toeflsmeagle
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 Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject: TOEFL iBT Links 101: more stand-out sites (June 20, 2006) |
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Central Missouri State University Writing Center index of handouts. Dozens for use on writing and grammar activities. High-quality explanations with PDF’s and exercises—
http://www.cmsu.edu/x63631.xml
A very good website on the basics of writing essays and the tricks to writing various essay types, some of which appear on the TOEFL—
http://essayinfo.com/
LEO: Literacy Education Online. St. Cloud University’s very user-friendly approach to explaining writing skills. Shows original thought in explaining difficult-to-explain aspects of composition—
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/index.html
Bank of essays based on all 185 TOEFL essay topics. If you use this collection, use it very sparingly, and only for paragraph sequencing activities or in-class analysis of a model, since these rather artificial-looking essays have serious drawbacks as models for nonnative speakers—
http://fly2usa.yourfreewebspace.com/files/ToeflEssays0909e.pdf
The Tongue Untied website’s spelling list. Broken up in different weeks. Might be useful for vocabulary-building. The rest of the website is classic-looking, old-school approach to grammar, spelling, mechanics, etc.—
http://grammar.uoregon.edu/spelling.html
Maclean’s Vocabulary Exercise. A cool-looking interactive vocabulary using a Canadian newsmagazine as a corpus. Could be used also for summarizing and paraphrasing activities, perhaps with an in-class oral presentation at the end. Potential—
http://homepage.usask.ca/~dul381/common/vocabexercise.html
Online dictionaries—
Encarta’s—
http://dictionary.msn.com
Merriam-Webster’s—
http://www.m-w.com/
Longman’s—
http://www.ldoceonline.com/
Online magazines for reading comprehension and integrated activities—
Maclean's—
http://www.macleans.com
US News and World Report—
http://www.usnews.com
Discover—
http://www.discover.com
Ohio University ESL grammar activities links. Basic, intermediate, and advanced. This’ll keep you busy for a few months—
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/grammar/activities.html |
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landroni
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| Thank you for the links. |
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Toefl_Achiever
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HI 
great work....toeflsmeagle...
May u get the desired score in toefl...really helpful material.....
Keep up the good work up....
all th elinks are really helpful 
Thanks again...  |
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toeflsmeagle
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: LEGALISTIC-SOUNDING DISCLAIMERS |
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toeflsmeagle
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:44 am Post subject: New links as of November 5, 2006 (Guy Fawkes Day) |
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Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom: A Project of The Internet TESL Journal. Useful for training students in the new independent speaking tasks on the test—
http://iteslj.org/questions/
The Compleat Lexical Tutor: a website that explores vocabulary for data-driven learning. Can do concordancing on-line and generate quizzes from concordances, a helpful tool invented by corpus linguists. Good for exploring the collocations of words, either by you or your students—
http://www.lextutor.ca
Manythings.org materials drawn from the Voice of America Special English programs: worth checking out for higher-frequency words. Has a concordancer for all the words that have appeared in the scripts, a concordancer that will work better for higher-frequency words to teach ESL/EFL learners the words or structures they collocate with. Read-and-listen part of the website can also be used to build reading speed. Good source for quizzes of different levels. A recommended website for a lower-level TOEFL class, if you use it as a springboard to explore the four skills AND build vocabulary. Made possible by the efforts of Chris Kelly in Japan—
http://www.manythings.org/e/voa.html
Vocabulary-building handout by T. J. Everest, who has even more handouts designed for IELTS—
http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/hd1/word_list_alphabetical.doc
Wikipedia. If you have a reading in your TOEFL texts that can be converted into an intergrated writing task, the supplemental lecture material you may need to add to the topic may be found here. Simply adapt this material as a brief lecture of 230-300 words long (about two minutes’ listening time), find an appropriate prompt, and have them write the essay in class. (Please see p. 21 of TOEFL iBT Tips for details on such a lecture)—
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:02 am Post subject: Extra TOEFL IBT page |
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After having the frustration of teaching a TOEFL IBT class I finally got around to making my own page with what resources I lovingly crafted.
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/exams/TOEFL.html]
I hope it helps.
James |
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toeflsmeagle
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toeflsmeagle
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:48 am Post subject: New TOEFL iBT workshop kit |
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Everyone,
ETS has changed workshop books. In response to a private message, I decided to post the link and the information ETS now provides. You can also participate in workshops, but check out the ETS website on that. Propell is the name of their workshops, but for those of you who'd only want the book, here's their info:
Propell™ Workshop Kit for TOEFL® iBT
$60.00
Workshop Kit includes
A workshop manual that includes an introduction to the integrated skills approach, learning objectives and strategies, and an explanation of TOEFL® iBT scoring
Five activity books that focus on individual learning skills
A complete TOEFL iBT Practice Test
A CD-ROM with audio samples to use with the practice test
Scoring rubric reference cards
http://store.digitalriver.com/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayPage&Locale=en_US&SiteID=ets&id=ProductDetailsPage&productID=59938000
Happy to update links when people tell me what needs updating.
-- toeflsmeagle |
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