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TOEFL Reading course syllabus
Daily TOEFL
Reading Comprehension skills
- How to read TOEFL passages
- Skimming for topic sentences
- Scanning for clue sentences
- Clue words to pay attention to
- Transitional words
- Types of transitional words
- Hedging words
- Pronouns
- Punctuation marks
- TOEFL Passages by academic fields
TOEFL Reading Question Types
Vocabulary Questions
- Types of tested words
- Tested words by parts of speech
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Verbs
- Phrases
- Essential TOEFL Vocabulary
Information Questions
- Introduction to TOEFL Information Questions
- Types of informaion asked
- Synonym
- Restatement
- General terms
- Implicit information
- Logical entailment
- Causal relationship
- Synthesis
Negative Information Questions
- Introduction to TOEFL Negative Information Questions
- Contradicting choice
- Unmentioned choice
Inference Questions
- Introduction to TOEFL Inference Questions
- Evidence based inference
- Types of TOEFL inference
- Types of inference asked
- Qualifying words
- Rephrasing
- Comparison
- Deductive inference
- Causal inference
- Scientific methodology
Antecedent Questions
- Introduction to TOEFL Antecedent Questions and Personal Pronouns
- Types of pronouns asked
Rhetorical-purpose questions
- Introduction to rhetorical purpose
- Types of TOEFL rhetorical purposes
- To describe
- To illustrate
- To explain
- To provide evidence
- To provide an alternative explanation
- To provide a counterexample
- To respond to a seeming counterexample
- Organization questions
- Evidence for a theory
- Explanation of a phenomenon
- Refutation of a theory
- Solution to a problem
Sentence-insertion Questions
- Introduction to TOEFL Sentence Insertion Questions
- Moving ideas from general to specific
- Definition
- List
- Spatial order
- Chronological order
- Moving ideas from old to new
- Repeated words
- Demonstrative words
- Personal pronouns
- Indefinite pronouns
- Transitioning logically
Paraphrase Questions
- Introduction to TOEFL Paraphrase Questions
- TOEFL’s way of making long sentences
- Dashes
- Semicolons
- Colons
- Appositives
- Paraphrase methods
- Change the word order
- Replace things with concepts or nominalize
- Simplify
- Relationships among ideas
- Definition of a term
- Cause and effect
- Comparison, contrast or concession
- Reasons for phenomena
Summary questions
- Introduction to TOEFL Summary Questions
- Eliminate definitely wrong options first
- Unrelated to the introductory summary sentence
- Minor details
- Incorrect qualifying words
- Incorrect use of general academic terms
- False statements using critical thinking
- Two options with inconsistent ideas
- Correct options based on topic sentences
- Fill in a Table Questions
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