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maddog · Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Location: Daegu

My school is changing its curriculum in accordance with the rest of the chain. They've told us that it's gonna be TOEFL-based, but haven't given any guidelines.

Despite the fact that we haven't received a curriculum, books, or guidlines, my boss wants me to make a teaching manual.

I know this is retarded, but I'm outta in less than two weeks, so I wanna play the game.

A google search yields a zillion results and I don't want to sift through them all.

Does anyone have any links that provided the breakdown of TOEFL writing, along with guidelines for each of the 7 question types.

This guy won't even check it. It's work for the sake of work, like everything since he took charge.

Thanks in advance.

Tommy · Joined: 24 Aug 2005

Poemer · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Location: Mullae

http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.1488512ecfd5b8849a77b13bc3921509/?vgnextoid=ff58af5e44df4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD&vgnextchannel=ab16197a484f4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD

mr. positive · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Location: a happy place

[i]DELTA'S Key to the Next Generation TOEFL Test[/i] is the only text worth using. None of the others even come close (I've taken the TOEFL iBT myself, so I can tell you from personal experience that this text is most like the real test). It will give you all that you need to make your teacher's guide. You should be able to pick it up at several English bookstores, it's a pretty popular book.

Heck, I just remembered - I [i]wrote[/i] an iBT TOEFL teacher's guide for my last school where I taught TOEFL for a year. PM me with your email address and I'll send it to you!

Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

The Compass IBT writing book isnt bad for beginning Ibt students but the speaking book is such garbage. Never use it.

moosehead · Joined: 05 May 2007

go to www.toefl.org and start browsing their site.

it's immensely helpful. with any luck you can start emailing some folks, write a memo, even an outline of your progress and be outa there before doing anything as drastic as WRITING A TEACHING MANUAL IN TWO WEEKS!!! OMG Laughing

ChinaBoy · Joined: 17 Feb 2007

Call me unethical, but if you're leaving in 2 weeks, cut-and-paste a whole bunch of stuff from the net and act like you typed it up.. would have taken 2 weeks to type all that, right?

they're obviously not seriously about it, I've had to do the "busy work" thing too.. no one even pays attention to the results anyway