Heinle's Complete Guide to the TOEFL

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Heinle's Complete Guide to the TOEFL Test, CBT Edition
Help students achieve the best possible score on the TOEFL (R) by offering useful test-taking strategies and extensive practice for all of the new exercise types.
Complete Guide to the TOEFL Test begins with a 15-page introductory section called "Getting Started." Basically, much of this section repeats what is in the ETS TOEFL Bulletin. "Twelve Keys to High Scores" on the TOEFL CBT are also given, but most of these points would be obvious to any test-taker. Among the author's tips are general strategies like "Increase your general knowledge of English" (p. xv) or "Use the process of elimination to make the best guess possible [between multiple choice items]" (p. xviii).

The four "Guides" on the listening, structure, reading and writing sections of the TOEFL CBT form the main body of Complete Guide to the TOEFL Test. All of the "Guides" are organized in the same way. Each of them consists of:

an overview of that particular section of the test, with some description of what it is like
on the real TOEFL, and the basic strategies to use;
a preview test given ostensibly so that students can gain a familiarity early on with the typical questions given in that section;
lessons broken down into various categories, with practice items on each;
review tests on the points brought up in groups of lessons;
mini-lessons at the end of each of the 4 sections.

The last part of the book consists of two complete practice tests with TOEFL-style questions.

"Guide to Listening" (pp. 2-134) is divided into Part A ("Dialogues") and Part B ("Longer Talks"), as the listening section of the real CBT is. Different types of dialogues are categorized in a total of 12 lessons. The level of detail in these lessons is noteworthy. The question types explained in Part A are those on dialogues that involve sound confusion, homonyms, idioms, and words with double meanings. Part A also discusses how to recognize and approach inference questions about dialogues, and dialogue questions that involve agreement and disagreement, as well as dialogues with special verbs. Two review tests are inserted after lesson four and lesson nine. Listening Part B is broken down into three lessons: answering questions about the main idea, details and inferences, and responding to items that involve matching and ordering information. The "Guide to Listening" ends with mini-lessons on idiomatic expressions. These lessons contain some 300 expressions, listed alphabetically, as well as exercises.

The second part, "Guide to Structure" (pp. 136-319), consists of lessons on common grammatical points as preparation for Sentence Completion and Error Identification questions. There are a total of 20 lessons, with 4 review tests, one given after every 5 lessons. Among the topics covered in the lessons are different types of clauses, as well as word forms, word choice, verbs, prepositions, and articles. Mini-lessons provide students with lists of prepositions, and exercises to practice them.

The third part, "Guide to Reading" (pp. 320-455), consists of reading and vocabulary exercises. Nine different kinds of items in the reading section are grouped in lessons, six in all. Lesson thirty-four, for example, covers detail, negative and scanning items. The mini-lessons for section three are on vocabulary building, with around 500 words and their synonyms divided into 17 lists, and practice exercises provided for each group. "Guide to Reading" is extensive, with many different passages provided as practice for answering different question types.

The last part, "Guide to Essay Writing" (pp. 456-503), includes some models for analyzing prompts, and for writing each part of the typical essay: introduction, body and conclusion. The author outlines a process-writing approach: pre-writing, writing, and editing. He suggests the test-taker analyze the prompt, and then pre-write by brainstorming ideas onto paper. Before actually beginning his/her essay, the test-taker should choose a thesis and write a brief outline. The last step is checking one's work after the writing is done. The basic process introduced in the first two lessons is followed by lessons on improving the essay with signal words and sentence variety, and checking and editing the essay.

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