TOEIC Preparation -Week 1

Introduction: Welcome to the first day of the course. Let's take a moment at the beginning of the class today to get to know each other and set our intentions for this course.

Task 1: Nice to Meet You (5 minutes) Have a conversation to get to know your partners. Ask and answer questions to learn basic personal information.

• Name
• Hometown
• Studies (past, present, future)
• Work
• Hobbies
• Favorite things

Task 2: Class Experiences (10 minutes) Now discuss some of your previous experiences with English classes in this university and in other places.

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Task 3: Class Rules and Requests (5 minutes) Online classes and face to face classes are not the same. What are some recommendations we should follow to make this course a nice experience? 

• What do you need from: the teacher, your partners, and yourself?
• What you want your teacher, your partners, and yourself to do?
• What are some positive actions that your teacher, your partners, and you can do to contribute to a nice learning experience in this course?

Task 4: Put the Pieces Together

Click on the link below. Then find the space in the document that corresponds to your group and follow the instructions. Be ready to share you ideas with the rest of the class when we go back to the main room.

• Shared Document: CLICK HERE

Task 5: Page 7 - Task A - In this task you are asked to identify words and phrases that describe an event. Look at the event on the left and then consider the phrases on the right. Which phrases do you NOT ASSOCIATE with that event? Why not?

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Task 6: Preposition Practice - You already practiced hand gestures for these prepositions with your teacher. Now it's time for you to practice with your partners. In each group one person will be the leader. The leader will do different gestures and the partners will say the preposition they see. The leader will go quickly so that it is difficult. Then after a minute, the leader will not do anymore gestures. He or she will only say a preposition and the partners have to do the corresponding gesture. After a few minutes, you can change the leader and try again. 

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Task 7: Identifying Physical Relationships with Prepositions - Click on the pictures below and analyze them. What object can you identify in the picture? What prepositions can you use to describe them? Look at the sentences. What prepositions would make senses in those examples? 

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Now for the last picture, work with your partner to create sentences to describe the relationships between the people and objects in the photo. Try to use as many different prepositions as possible.

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Task 8: Pg. 28 Business Vocabulary Review - Each list of words represents a category. Read the words and try to think of a category for them. Then decide which words do not belong in that category.

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Task 9: Office Vocabulary Game - For the vocabulary game you are going to describe different objects we can find in an office. In your group you need to make two teams. Team A and Team B. Then click the link to find the picture you will describe. For the first round Team A will take 5 minutes to describe their picture to Team B to see how many words they can guess. If they don't know the word in English, they can say it in Spanish. Then it is time for Team B to describe their words. They have 5 minutes to describe their picture to see how many words Team A can guess. 

DO NOT LOOK AT THE OTHER TEAM'S PICTURE! :)

Team A: CLICK HERE to see the picture you will describe.

Team B: CLICK HERE to see the picture you will describe.