TOEIC Preparation: Week 10

Warm Up: Making Predictions

Spin the wheel and look at the option. On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to do this in the next 48 hours? Why?

Task 2: Meaning from Context

Work with partners to read the text and sentences. Use context clues to guess the meanings of the words in bold. They are nonsense words that take the place of real words in English. 

• Sample Text: "Scientists say that ningles and humans are in trouble because high bazootas are fruming polar cridlington causing the levels of ocean narg to rise. The high bazootas are caused in large part by the firtling of fossil fuels and smoke from forest fires. Oceanographers have been frizing sea narg levels for the past decade and noticed a steady increase."

• The sentence was written on a piece of drurb.
• Most drurb, like snow, is osgrave.
• Cats are domestic ningles.
• Polar bears, which are osgrave ningles, live where there is cridlington.
• If you set fire to drurb, it firtles.
• If you pour narg on firtling drurb, the flames go out.
• If you put cridlington into hot narg, it frumes.
• Cridlington frumes at a bazoota over 0° C.
• Narg boobles  at a bazoota of 100° C.
• We frize bazootas with a nast.

What do you think the following non-sense words mean?

• Drurb
• Osgrave
• Ningle
• Cridlington
• Firtle
• Narg
• Frume
• Bazoota
• Booble
• Frize
• Nast

Task 2: Vocabulary Questions

Work with your partners to complete the task below. In each reading you will find one or more vocabulary words. Read the words in the context of the sentence and make a guess about what they mean. How could you state these terms in other words?

• Text 1: Restate the highlighted term in your own words.

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• Text 2: Restate the highlighted terms in your own words.

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• Text 3: Restate the highlighted terms in your own words.

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Now CLICK HERE to see your answer choices for each of the items above. Work with your partners to decide which option has the closest meaning to the highlighted words.

Task 3: Focused Practice

One of the challenges of Part 7 are the multi-passage texts where you need to read two or three related texts and answer questions about them. In this group mini-test you will work with your partners to complete two double passage sets and one triple passage sets.

• Multi-Passage Sets: CLICK HERE

Task 4: Focused Practice - Text Message Chains

One of the new text types that you will find on the TOEIC reading exam involves text messaging chains or chat messages between colleagues or friends. To practice this text type, take the group quiz below. The quiz was split into two parts for your convenience.

• Chat Conversations 1: CLICK HERE
• Chat Conversations 2: CLICK HERE