18/04/2012

TIPS TES TOEFL

April 18, 2012    No comments

TIPS TES TOEFL.  Di ramu dari sumber Tips for the Toefl Exam, dari berbagai buku Toefl, sengaja tidak diterjemahkan agar tidak mengurangi makna dari maksud penulis :)

Dalam tes Toefl, peserta akan disguhi tida sajian yaitu :
  • Listening Comprehension
  • Structure and Written Expression
  • Reading Comprehension.

General TOEFL strategies
  • Use your time wisely.
  • Get familiar with the instructions before taking the TOEFL so that you will not have to waste time reading them.
  • If you do not know the answer to a question, guess. There is no penalty for guessing. Unmarked answers will be counted as wrong.
  • Mark your answer sheet very carefully.
  • Do not write in your test booklet.

Grammar structure strategies Tips for the TOEFL exam

Structure and Written Expressions
  • Time: 25 minutes
  • 40 questions in two subsections
  • Structure (15 questions). You choose gramatically correct sentence completions for sentences with missing parts.
  • Written Expressions (25 questions). You choose the incorrect segments in complete sentences.

PRESENT PARTICIPLE
  • A presnt participle is the -ing form of a verb. It can be 1) part of the verb or 2) an adjective.
  • Its part of the verb when it is accompanied by some form of the verb be e.g The woman an was intrguing against her husband.
  • It is an adjective when is it not accompanied by some form of the verb be e.g The intriguing woman an was a mistery.
 PART PARTICIPLE
  • A past participle often end in -ed but there are also many irregular past participles (played, taught).
  • The -ed form of the verb can be 1) the simple past, 2) the past participle of a verb, or 3) an adjective e.g The fisinehed task is on the desk.

COORDINATE CONNECTORS
  • Many sentences have more than one caluse (group of words containing subject and verb). One way to connect two clauses is to use : AND< BUT, OR, or SO between the sentences.
  • When you analize a sentences, first identify the verb, if the is no verb in the main sentence, you have to choose the answer that contains the correct form of the verb needed.
  • Once you identify the verb, ask a wh.... question of the verb. This will locate the subject.
  • Subject Verb Agreemnt (SVA). The subject must agree with the verb of the esntence in two ways : in the number (singular vs. plural) or in person (first, second or third person).
  • Be aware that sometimes there are prepositional phrases (distractors)
  • Pronoun-noun agreement, a pronoun needs to agree with the noun in the term of number and gender.
  • Parallelism principle requires that expressions of similar content and function should be similar.
  • Comparison make sure to compare the same things always.
  • Be sure that the sentence has a subject and a verb.
  • Be carefull of object of preposition (oop) because they can be mistaken for the subject of the sentence. The object of the preposition is a noun such as : in, at, on, of, to, by, behind, etc, to form a prepositional phrase.
  • Be careful of appositives. An appositive is a noun that comes before or after another noun and has the same meaning. Appositive can be left out the phrase and it still makes sense.
  • Be careful of present participle: they can either be as part of the verb or an adjectives
  • Be careful of past participle
  • Use coordinate connectors cerrectly : and, but, so, or, yet
  • Parallel structure.
  • Invert the subject and verb with question words
  • Invers the subject and verb with negatives, SVA
Semoga bermanfaat, khsusnya anak-anak SEM yang belajar Toefl tiap malam sabtu :)

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