¿Es importante el presente? En el TOEFL, ¡es muy importante! Aprende los cuatro tiempos verbales del presente y sus diez usos en este completo post.
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Os Quatro Tempos Verbais do Presente e Seus Dez Tipos de Uso
Qual a importância do presente? No TOEFL, é muito importante! Aprenda mais sobre os quatro tempos verbais do presente e seus dez usos neste artigo completo.
What is the Hardest Part of the TOEFL? (Part 1)
Exactly how hard is the TOEFL? There’s no easy answer. But I can tell you which parts of the TOEFL my students have found the hardest.
Reading Practice: The Legacy of Edmund Wilson Part 1 — Question
Welcome to more TOEFL reading practice! In our last series, we took a look at two of the most common TOEFL reading question types, vocabulary and detail questions. To put those questions in context, each TOEFL reading passage has between 12 and 14 questions, of which 4-6 will be vocabulary questions and 2-6 detail questions. […]
The Four Present Tenses and their Ten Uses
Many philosophers and motivational speakers talk about the importance of living in the present. A lot of people would agree. However, when I hear this, all I can think is “which present”? As many English teachers and English students know, there are many different ways to describe the present. In English, there are four present […]
TOEFL Reading Practice Questions
Below is a a little less than half of a TOEFL reading passage and 5 associated questions. If you want to time yourself to complete this in the same time you would take for a real TOEFL, you should finish in about 7 minutes, preferably less. Of course, on a real TOEFL you will have […]
Synonyms in the TOEFL Reading Section
The TOEFL reading section requires several skills from you, but possibly the most important is your knowledge of synonyms. This might sound strange, but there’s a good reason for it. Finding the answer in the text That reason is that every question about the text is answered in the text. None of the questions ask about outside […]
TOEFL Reading Question Type: Detail
Detail questions ask you about information that’s specifically stated in a small part of the passage. They generally focus on the “who,” “what,” “when,” “where,” and “why” as explained by the author. Detail questions usually take one of these formats: According to Paragraph X, _____ occurred because… According to Paragraph X, which is true of […]
Common TOEFL Reading Difficulties
In this post, I’ll deal with some of the problems people often have when taking the Reading Section of the TOEFL. Time management For each reading passage, you have exactly 20 minutes, which for a lot of people is just barely enough to finish the test and maybe check their answers. For other people, fifteen minutes […]
TOEFL Reading Question Type – Paraphrase
Paraphrase questions will ask you to decide which of the given answer choices best summarizes a particular sentence from the passage. The correct answer choice will contain all the important points (“essential information”) from the first sentence and will retain the original sentence’s basic meaning. You will never have more than one paraphrase question in […]