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MattElz
Joined: 07 Jan 2004
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Location: New York, NY, USA
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 Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 3:39 am Post subject: Tutoring for the TOEIC exam ... Suggestions? |
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I am teaching a new private student who told me she wants to spend 60 percent of the 90-min lessons on conversation (no problem because she wants articles, etc.) and 40 percent on TOEIC stuff.
I've never taught TOEIC before, but since these lessons are to take place in a public place, I see one potential problem -- how do I teach the listening comprehension section in a coffee shop? Is there any special method for these kinds of lessons? Thanks. |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:08 am Post subject: Re: Tutoring for the TOEIC exam ... Suggestions? |
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| MattElz wrote: |
I am teaching a new private student who told me she wants to spend 60 percent of the 90-min lessons on conversation (no problem because she wants articles, etc.) and 40 percent on TOEIC stuff.
I've never taught TOEIC before, but since these lessons are to take place in a public place, I see one potential problem -- how do I teach the listening comprehension section in a coffee shop? Is there any special method for these kinds of lessons? Thanks. |
I used to teach a private student in a coffee shop and do listening exercises from the book. best idea is to buy a small hand-held tape-recorder that plays cassettes and use earphones for the listening. Students can use the recorder to listen to the exrcises. Many TOEIC books now come with CDs so you may need to decide if you want to use CDs or cassette tapes. Another idea is to get an earphone jack so two people can listen at the same time so you know what she is listening to.
Just my opinion, but some research has shown there is not a lot of difference in scores between someone doing TOEIC related listening exercises and combining TOEIC with ordinary conversation type dialogs. What students do in these exercises is learn to scan for information, pick out main words, improve listening skills, make predictions etc and you can do this just as easily with conversation type dialogs.
Even getting her talking and listening to you is beneficial as long as you have targeted drills and not just "chit-chat" and free conversation.
I am teaching TOEIC to my uni classes at the moment, you can PM me if you want some pointers. |
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