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michellem · Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 29

Hi,

I am teaching TOEIC preparation to engineering students in France and I have run out of ideas on how to make this interesting. We have been doing drills for the last few weeks but attendance in going down. I have all the basic stuff: Longman, Target Score, Oxford.

Does anyone have any ideas?

thanks

M

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

Never knew TOEIC was supposed to be fun.

If you have access to computers, there are lots of websites with good activities.

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

I just read a couple of articles by Joe Falout on how he conducts a prep course (3-day retreat) for TOEIC. Look them up on JALT. Good stuff. Keywords may be "focused tasks" and "four-year longitudinal study".

gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

Try varying the tasks and listening exercises. have discussions on why some of the other choices might be incorrectly chosen. Play with the language too, don't just spend all the time in the books Cool

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ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan