TOEIC Preparation - Week 8

Introduction: In today's class we begin our four week study of Part 7: Reading Comprehension. Complete the collaborative tasks below with your partners. 

Warm Up: Poem Analysis

Work with your group members to read the following poem and complete these tasks.

• Step 1: Read the poem with your partners. Each group member should read on stanza paying attention to the rhythm and rhyme. When you finish tell your partners what you think the poem is about. Then continue to the other tasks.

Eye have a spelling checker

It came with my pea sea

It clearly marks four my review

Miss steaks eye can knot sea

Eye strike a key and type a word

And weight four it to say

Weather eye am wrong oar write

It shows me strait a weigh

As soon as a mist ache is maid

It nose bee for two long

And eye can put the error write

It's rarely ever wrong

Eye have run this poem threw it

I am shore your pleased two no

It's letter perfect all the weigh

My checker told me sew

• Step 2: You probably noticed that the poem has many problems with homophones, or similar sounding words and phrases. What homophone errors can you identify? Can you find where these words should go?

• So
• Mistake (2x)
• Or right
• PC
• Knows before
• Straight away
• Cannot see

• Step 3: This poem is an example of irony. What is ironic about this poem?

• Irony: Noun - Something that seems to be deliberately contrary to expectations and the result if often amusing or funny. 

• Step 4: CLICK HERE to read the "corrected" version of the poem. Did you find all of the mistakes? Did this help you better understand the poet's message?

Task 1: Common Text Types

Part 7 of the test contains several text types or genres. In this task you will explore some of the most common ones you will encounter. Click your group link below and follow the instructions. 

• Group 1: CLICK HERE
• Group 2: CLICK HERE
• Group 3: CLICK HERE
• Group 4: CLICK HERE
• Group 5: CLICK HERE
• Group 6: CLICK HERE

Task 2: Text Type Matching

• Anthology pg. 22: Look at the sample texts. Write the names of the text types in your anthology using the list below.

• General Correspondence
• Notices
• Articles
• Graphical Texts
• Advertisements
• Forms
• Instructions

• Anthology pg. 23: Now read the descriptions of the text types and matche them with their characteristics

Task 2: Book Practice

Complete the following practice exercises from your book.

• Pg. 44 - Task A - Identify Sequence of Events
• Pgs 64-65 Task A - Identify a Target Audience

Task 3: Focused Practice - Group Quiz

Take the following group quiz with your partners. All of the texts in the quiz are examples of business correspondence, a common text type in Part 7 of the TOEIC. The quiz has 20 questions but it was divided into two parts for your convenience. Be sure to skim the questions before you start reading.

• Text Types: Business Correspondence 1 - CLICK HERE
• Text Types: Business Correspondence 2 - CLICK HERE