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A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF TOEFL IBT
Rifat .O. Hussein
Testing Center Administrator
rifat@delmon.bh  

• WHY IS THE TOEFL TEST CHANGING?
  _ To measure the ability to communicate successfully in an academic setting;
  _ To reflect how language is really used;
  _ To keep up with the best practices in language learning and teaching (integrated skills).
  
   

• TOEFL READING QUESTION TYPES

Basic Information and Inferencing Questions:
1- Factual information questions
2- Negative factual information questions
3- Inference question questions
4- Rhetorical purpose questions
5- Vocabulary questions
6- Reference questions
7- Sentence simplification questions
8- Insert text questions
Reading to Learn questions:
9. Prose summary
10. Fill in a table
 

• Vocabulary Question (iBT)
  
  Growth, reproduction, and daily metabolism all require an organism to expend energy. The expenditure of energy is essentially a process of budgeting, just as finances are budgeted. If all of one's money is spent on clothes, there may be none left to buy food or go to the movies. Similarly, a plant or animal cannot squander all its energy on growing a big body if none would be left over for reproduction, for this is the surest way to extinction.

• The word squander in the passage is closest in meaning to:
  
  a. extend
  b. transform
  c. activate
  d. waste
  
   

• TOEFL IBT LISTENING MATERIALS
  
  Conversations:
  _ Office Hours
  _ Service Encounters
  Lectures:
  _ Arts
  _ Life Science
  _ Physical Science
  _ Social Science
  These conversations and talks are typical of those that occur on North American university campuses
   

• SPEAKING QUESTION TYPES
  
  Independent:
  1- Question about a person, place, object, or event.
  2- Question about preference from two possible actions, situations, or opinions
  Integrated Listening/Reading/Speaking (questions #3 & #4)
  Integrated Listening/Speaking (questions #5 & #6)
   

• EXAMPLES OF SPEAKING QUESTIONS
  
  1- Choose a teacher you admire and explain why you admire him or her. Please include specific examples and details in your explanation.
  2- Some students study for classes individually. Others study in groups. Which method of studying do you think is better for students and why?

• WRITING SECTION OF THE TOEFL IBT
  
  The Integrated Writing Task
  1- Read a passage about an academic topic
  2- Listen to a lecture related to the topic
  3- Write a summary of the main points
  
  The Independent Writing Task
  _ Write an essay about your opinion on an issue
   

• EXAMPLE OF WRITING QUESTION

 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
_ Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
 

• TOEFL IBT

• For Registration

 If You Want to register in the toefl Exam you must sign up in this website www.ets.org and the payment will be in the same website by Master/Visa Card.