Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Thic book gives students all the tools they need to succeed on the new TOEFL integrated-skills test. Providing both a comprehensive language skills course and a wealth of practice for all sections of the test, the Longman Preparation Couse for the TOEFL Test: iBT, Second Edition is appropriate for courses in TOEFL test preparation or as a supplement to more general ESL courses.

The Student Book features:

Updated material for all the new types of passages and questions on the test

Diagnostic pre-tests and post-tests that allow students to identify strengths and weaknesses and assess improvement in each section.

Practice Reading for the 4 skills: Reading provides authentic conversations in an academic setting and academic lectures with new questions about a speaker's attitude or purpose. Listening provides authentic conversations in an academic setting and academic lectures with new questions about a speaker's attitude or purpose. Speaking includes personal and expository tasks and integrated tasks. Writing consists of expository and integrated tasks: reading/ listening/ writing

Eight Mini-Tests that preview the test's integrated four-skills format.

Two complete Practice Tests that familiarize students with the actual test format and timing." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION

SECTION 1: READING

READING DIAGNOSTIC PRE-TEST: Agression

READING OVERVIEW

READING SKILLS

VOCABULARY AND REFERENCE

SKILL 1 UNDERSTANDING VOCABULARY FROM CONTEXT

Reading Exercise 1 Smog Autism Parasitic Plants Edna Ferber

SKILL 2 RECOGNIZE REFERENTS

Reading Exercise 2 Animal Congregation Chromium Compounds New World Epidemics Horatio Alger, Jr.

Reading Review Exercise (Skills 1-2) Coral Colonies

SENTENCES

SKILL 3 SIMPLIFYING MEANINGS OF SENTENCES

Reading Exercise 3 Camouflage Post-it Notes The Pulitzer Prize Competition and Cooperation

SKILL 4 INSERT AND SENTENCES INTO THE PASSAGE

Reading Exercise 4 Popcorn Lions Accidental Inventions Uranium

Reading Exercise (Skills 3-4) Theodore Dreiser

Reading Review Exercise (Skills 1-4) Pulsars

DETAILS

SKILL 5 FIND FACTUAL INFORMATION

Reading Exercise 5 Lake Baikal The Postage Stamp The Clovis Culture Brown Dwarfs

SKILL 6 UNDERSTAND NEGATIVE FACTS

Reading Exercises 6 Flatfish Limestone Caves Wrigley's Chewing Gum Dissociative Identity Disorder

Reading Exercise (Skills 5-6) John Muir

Reading Review Exercise (Skills 1-6) Caretaker Speech

INFERENCES

SKILL 7 MAKE INFERENCES FROM STATED FACTS

Reading Exercise 7 Tiger Moths The Cambrian Explosion The Golden Age of Comics The Filibuster

SKILL 8 INFER RHETORICAL PURPOSE

Reading Exercise 8 Xenography Demographic Change The Hubble Telescope Territoriality

Reading Exercise (Skills 7-8) Ella Deloria

Reading Review Exercise (Skills 1-8) Early Autos

READING TO LEARN

SKILL 9 SELECT SUMMARY INFORMATION

Reading Exercise 9 Island Plant Life Ben and Jerry The Bald Eagle Modernism in Art

SKILL 10 COMPLETE SCHEMATIC TABLES

Reading Exercise 10 Sand Dunes A Surprising Connection Carnivorous Plants William Faulkner

Reading Exercise (Skills 9-10) Species

Reading Review Exercise (Skills 1-10) Decisions

READING POST-TEST Aquatic Schools

SECTION TWO: LISTENING

LISTENING DIAGNOSTIC PRE-TEST A Problem with a Class Sleep

LISTENING OVERVIEW

LISTENING SKILLS

BASIC COMPREHENSION

SKILL 1 UNDERSTAND THE GIST

Listening Exercise 1 An Engineering Course The Grade Report Lakes Meterology

SKILL 2 UNDERSTAND THE DETAILS

Listening Exercise 2 A Parking Sticker A Drama Class Early Teachers Iron Pyrite

Listening Review Exercise (Skill 1-2) An Anthropology Paper

PRAGMATIC UNDERSTANDING

SKILL 3 UNDERSTANDING THE FUNCTION

Listening Exercise 3 The Library The Transcript The Opossum Venus

SKILL 4 UNDERSTAND THE SPEAKER'S STANCE

Listening Exercise 4 Course Load A Questionnaire Iroquois Houses Hail

Listening Exercise (Skills 3-4) The Fugio Coin

Listening Review Exercise (Skills 1-4) Hibernation

COLLECTING INFORMATION

SKILL 5 UNDERSTAND THE ORGANIZATION

Listening Exercise 5 Tropism Fossils Clarence Darrow Fractures

SKILL 6 UNDERSTAND RELATIONSHIPS

Listening Exercise 6 A Placement Test A Term Paper Conifers Presentation

Listening Exercise (Skills 5-6) The Outer Banks

Listening Review Exercise (Skills 1-6) Leaf Arrangements

LISTENING POST-TEST The Music Project The Great Lakes

SECTION THREE: SPEAKING

SPEAKING DIAGNOSTIC PRE-TEST A Good Teacher Vacation Preferences Registering for Classes Nonverbal Communication A Problem in French Class Echolocation

SPEAKING OVERVIEW

SPEAKING SKILLS

INDEPENDENT TASKS

SKILL 1 PLAN THE FREE-CHOICE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 1 Characteristics of a Good Neighbor Your Favourite Holiday Which Person Helped the Most Ten Million Dollars Your Dream House Your Favourite Food Characteristics of a Good Parent When You Want to Live The Person You Want to Meet Where You Will Take the TOEFL Test

SKILL 2 MAKE THE FREE-CHOICE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 2

Speaking Review Exercise (Skills 1-2) Your Job Driver Age Student Excuses Your Favourite Day Government Changes

SKILL 3 PLAN THE PAIRED-CHOICE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 3 Large or Small Class Dinner at Home or Dinner Out Marriage Before of After Age Thirty Preferred Type of Exams Trips by Plane or Train Big City or Small Town Study Alone or with Friends Play or Watch Sports Opera or a Football Game TOELF Test or a Math Test

SKILL 4 MAKE THE PAIRED-CHOICE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 4

Speaking Review Exercise (Skills 3-4) Teacher Mistakes Taking Chances or Play It Safe Career Choices Decision Making Obeying Parents

INTEGRATED TASKS (READING AND LISTENING)

SKILL 5 NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU READ

Speaking Exercise 5 Bicycle Parking on Campus A Professor's Retirement Part of a Class Syllabus

SKILL 6 NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU LISTEN

Speaking Exercise 6 Bicycle Parking on Campus A Professor's Retirement Part of a Class Syllabus

SKILL 7 PLAN BEFORE YOU SPEAK Speaking Exercise 7

SKILL 8 MAKE THE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 8

Speaking Review Exercise (Skills 5-8) History Syllabus

SKILL 9 NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU READ

Speaking Exercises 9 The Dead Sea Polling The Polynesian Migration

SKILL 10 NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU LISTEN

Speaking Exercises 10 The Dead Sea Polling The Polynesian Migration

SKILL 11 PLAN BEFORE YOU SPEAK

Speaking Exercises 11

SKILL 12 MAKE THE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 12 Choosing a Professor Study Habits An Independent Study Project

SKILL 14 PLAN BEFORE YOU SPEAK

Speaking Exercise 14

SKILL 15 MAKE THE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 15

Speaking Review Exercise (Skills 13-15) Bored in Class

SKILL 16 NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU LISTEN

Speaking Exercise 16 The Bank Holiday of 1933 Creativity The Amazon River

SKILL 17 PLAN BEFORE YOU SPEAK Speaking Exercise 17

SKILL 18 MAKE THE RESPONSE

Speaking Exercise 18

Speaking Review Exercise (Skills 16-18) SAD

SPEAKING POST-TEST An Admirable Person Getting News A Cafeteria Problem Social Environments A Class Schedule Problem Life on Mars

SECTION FOUR: WRITING

WRITING DIAGNOSTIC PRE-TEST Human Memory A News Story

WRITING OVERVIEW

WRITING SKILLS

INTEGRATED TASK

SKILL 1 NOTE THE MAIN POINTS AS YOU READ

Writing Exercise 1 Homeschooling Polysemy Margaret Mead's Research

SKILL 2 NOTE THE MAIN POINT AS YOU LISTEN

Writing Exercise 2 Homeschooling Polysemy Margaret Mead's Research

SKILL 3 PLAN BEFORE YOU WRITE

Writing Exercise 3

SKILL 4 WRITE A TOPIC STATEMENT Writing Exercise 4

SKILL 5 WRITE SUPPORTING PARAGRAPHS ON READING PASSAGES Writing Exercise 5

SKILL 6 WRITE SUPPORTING PARAGRAPHS ON LISTENING PASSAGES Writing Exercise 6

SKILL 7 REVIEW SENTENCE STRUCTURE

Writing Exercise 7 Management Styles Earthquake Waves

SKILL 8 REVIEW GRAMMAR

Writing Exercise 8 American English Spelling Aversive Conditioning

Writing Review Exercise (Skills 1-8) Stonehenge

INDEPENDENT TASK

SKILL 9 PLAN BEFORE YOU WRITE

Writing Exercise 9 Relieving Stress A Famous Place to Visit Actions or Words Yourself Today and Five Years Ago Team or Individual Sports The Best Age to Marry Characteristics of a Good Teacher Haste Makes Waste Learning a New Language The TOEFL Test

SKILL 10 WRITE THE INTRODUCTION

Writing Exercises

SKILL 11 WRITE UNIFIED SUPPORTING PARAGRAPHS

Writing Exercise 11

SKILL 12 CONNECT THE SUPPORTING PARAGRAPHS

Writing Exercise 12

SKILL 13 WRITE THE CONCLUSION

Writing Exercise 13

SKILL 14 REVIEW SENTENCE STRUCTURE

Writing Exercise 14 Team Sports

SKILL 15 REVIEW GRAMMAR

Writing Exercise 15 University and High School Studies

Writing Review Exercise (Skills 9-15) Emotions

WRITING POST-TEST Unintended Consequences Safe or Sorry

MINI-TESTS

MINI-TEST 1

Reading Migration

Listening Science Lab The Little House Books

Speaking Leader of the Country History Films Formation of Glaciers

Writing Garlic

MINI-TEST 2

Reading Birth Order

Listening Confused Assignment Cross-Dating

Speaking Getting Up Early Leadership Roles Meeting on Exam Schedule

Writing Historical Event

MINI-TEST 3

Reading Ketchup

Listening Biology Class Gem Cuts

Speaking Hometown Library Rules Split Infinitives

Writing Scientific Management

MINI-TEST 4

Reading Estuaries

Listening Cumulative Exam Mountains

Speaking Kinds of Exam Nullification Psychology Class

Writing Working for Others

MINI-TEST 5

Reading Schizophrenia

Listening Scholarship Atolls

Speaking A Good Friend Student Assistant Positions Zero-Sum Economies

Writing Catch 22

MINI-TEST 6

Reading Exxon Valdez

Listening Schedule Plan Animal Hearing

Speaking Million Dollars Formation of the Dollar System Reschedules Speaker

Writing Visitors to Your Country

MINI-TEST 7

Reading Plate Tectonics

Listening Group Project The Trumpet

Speaking Studying English Discussion Class NIMBY

Writing Supernovas

MINI-TEST 8

Reading Limners

Listening General Studies Carbon

Speaking Big Party Somnambulism Questioning the Professor

Writing Violence in Movies

COMPLETE TESTS

COMPLETE TEST 1

Reading 1 Prehistorical Astronomers

Reading 2 Truman and the Railroads

Reading 3 Mathematical Bases

Listening Student Newspaper The Great Salt Lake Kleenex Exam Grade Hawaii Three-Mile Island

Speaking Dream Job Group Paper Spring Show Great Ape Communication Dreaded Science Class Mercantilism

Writing Venus Family Traditions

COMPLETE TEST 2

Reading 1 Navigation Devices

Reading 2 The Neanderthals

Reading 3 The Silent Era

Listening Grade Report Washington, D.C. The Letter C The Space Shuttle Caves The Compound Eye

Speaking Favourite Movie Telling a Lie Business Internships Supersonic Speed Project Done Bit by Bit Multiple Personality Disorder

Writing Social Promotion Good Leader

APPENDIXES APPENDIX A Cohesion APPENDIX B Sentence Structure APPENDIX C Error Correction (Grammar)

DIAGNOSIS, ASSESSMENT, and SCORING Overall Scores Reading Diagnosis and Scoring Listening Diagnosis and Scoring Speaking Assessment and Scoring Writing Assessment and Scoring

RECORDING SCRIPT

ANSWER KEY

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