{"id":405,"date":"2014-04-30T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/?p=405"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:47:12","slug":"the-topics-youll-speak-about-on-the-toefl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/the-topics-youll-speak-about-on-the-toefl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Topics You&#8217;ll Speak About on the TOEFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/toefl-speaking-topics\/\">TOEFL speaking section<\/a> tests your ability to express yourself in a few\u00a0general situations: talking about personal experience, giving an opinion,\u00a0summarizing, and\u00a0contrasting two\u00a0sources of\u00a0information are the most important skills.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Defending an opinion<\/h2>\n<p>Task 1 is an opinion question, and it is designed to be very general and accessible to everyone. Often, it will require you to compare or choose the better of two options, so brush up on your comparison-related vocabulary. Like an experience question, it\u2019s very important that you use specific examples and personal experience to support your position.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b><\/b>Conversation focused<\/h2>\n<p>Task 2 asks about a conversation related to a university campus. You&#8217;ll read a passage that describes the situation, then a conversation that you&#8217;ll be asked to comment on, and then the question itself. The task will ask you to contrast university a short university-related announcement or piece of news (the passage) with a student&#8217;s opinion on that news (the audio).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Academic integrated<\/h2>\n<p>Tasks 3 and 4 are based on academic lectures. One of the two also includes a text. In these questions, the topics are similar to what you read about in the reading section and heard in the listening section. 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