Hello everybody! Welcome to a brand new video lesson with optional closed captions to help anyone who needs to improve their fluency in English for the TOEFL or Job Interviews. Many people need to have the best level of English possible for academic and professional reasons. So in the video you are about to see I am going to cover some ways to categorize the areas of English that you need to improve on
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 I know many of you have constant difficulties with the longer lectures in the integrated speaking section of the TOEFL exam. It’s  everybody’s pet peeve and I decided to make a video with a sample listening lecture to show you how to learn new vocabulary in areas outside your major. It is important to get in as much practice as you can in a wide variety of university lectures so that you can build your vocabulary. It’s possible to paraphrase only when we already the original meaning of the word. Paraphrasing and summarizing is key on the TOEFL as it shows the ETS raters that the student has a higher level of understanding of English at the academic level. In my experience, one of the most challenging things in the longer speaking lectures is separating the “technobable” from the core information that you will need when you read out your answer. This is a skill, but I will tell you that quite often it takes a while before the lecturer actually gets to the main points which will be asked about in the question later on.

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Here are my tips for the independent speaking section. I hope after watching this video that you can sound more like a native speaker to ace the TOEFL speaking section. A longer version of this TOEFL Speaking lesson is available with a longer quiz and and extra quiz.

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I know writing an essay can be hard. Just coming up with the ideas can be stressful. That’s why I have decided to share some of my tips which have helped students such as this one get 109 out of 120 on the TOEFL exam.

The following video is based on the correction of an essay sent to me by a former TOEFL IBT student. After I showed her many of the tips like the ones in this video, she was able to get into a very prestigious MBA program at Penn State University. So far I have covered the introductory and beginning of the first supporting paragraph of this essay and will be releasing a continuation of the correction in Test Prep. 17. Enjoy!

In this lesson I teach you the vocabulary found in TOEFL Listening section 1 including phrasal verbs and expressions.

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