TOEIC Preparation: Week 9 - Part 7 - Reading Comprehension

Warm Up: Say Three Things

In each round one of your partners will be the speaker. He or she will choose a topic from the list below and say three things related to that topic. 

• one thing he/she likes
• one thing he/she does not like
• one thing he/she does not have strong feelings about

Then the partners have to guess which is which. Then a new partner chooses another topic and says their three things.

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Task 1: Restaurant Reviewers

You work as a team of chefs in Gordon Ramsay's newest restaurant. Today a group of 5 restaurant reviewers will visit the restaurant and try the different dishes. There is only one rule. Each restaurant reviewer MUST TRY a different dish. NO DISHES can be repeated. Read the information below and decide which dish you want to serve to each person and why. 

• Group Document: CLICK HERE 

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Task 2: Practice with NOT Questions

Remember that the NOT questions are the most time consuming and difficult questions in Part 7 of the reading test. The best strategy is to answer these questions last and go one by one through the answer choices using the process of elimination. Read each text with your partners and decide on the correct answer from the questions below.

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Task 3: Focused Practice

Take the following group quiz with your partners. All of the texts in the quiz are examples of advertisements, another common text type in Part 7 of the TOEIC. The quiz has 15 questions. Be sure to skim the questions before you start reading.

• Text Types: Advertisement - CLICK HERE

Task 4: Introduction to Double Passages

Read the passages below and answer the questions. Remember, for each question, ask yourself, which text is most likely to have the answer: Text 1, Text 2, or both?

• Questions 1-5 refer to the following agenda and email.

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• Q1: What was the topic of the conference on January 10?
• A) How to start a small business
• B) How to manage finances
• C) How to lead other people
• D) How to expand business globally

• Q2: When most likely will inquiries start being made?
• A) At 3:30 pm
• B) At 4:30 pm
• C) At 5:30 pm
• D) At 6:30 pm

• Q3: Where will a talk be given at no charge?
• A) At Mulligan Elementary School
• B) At Brookstone University
• C) At Piedmont Adult Education Center
• D) At SEM Development Group

• Q4: What does Ms. O'Neill invite AFC members to do?
• A) Attach a receipt
• B) Fill out a survey
• C) Prepare a Presentation
• D) Evaluate speakers

• Q5: What is mentioned about the upcoming conference?
• A) It will be held at a new location.
• B) Its presentations will start later in the day.
• C) Its attendance fees will be increased.
• D) It will be broadcast online.