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How to Prepare For TOEFL in 2 Weeks

 TOEFL PREPARATION 100 score+

Hey everyone welcome to our small world welcome to our blog .Today we're going to talk about every English learner favorite English test,  the test is called  TOEFL ; the TOEFL ® is a test measures your ability to speak and understand English at the university level.



You can prepare for it in two weeks if you are above intermediate but one thing i wanted to note is that TOEFL really measures your ability to speak and use English and if you are a beginner you won't be able to score 100 plus that's the thing that’s very important that you already have the level of English that you need on your TOEFL test so if you're intermediate you won't be able to score 100 plus you need to be a very strong upper intermediate advanced person to score 100 plus at the same time the majority of universities would require80 plus so it's somewhere between intermediate or upper intermediate and you're good there but before we dive into the  article this is something really important I'm going to talk about “the tips” that was advised by many students who have passed the test with the highest scores ;  I’m going to recommend some resources but if you're a beginner hoping to score 100 plus on TOEFL in two weeks it is not going to work nothing's going to work ,your English needs to be on a good level and all of the TOEFL preparation is just getting acquainted with the tasks getting some templates like templates they help just having a template for speaking in your head having a template for writing.

 

For note-taking in your head that helps a lot because you're so stressed during the exam we're going to talk about that, but again there is no magic bill here we're just going to go through tips that you can follow if your English is good enough if it's not good enough yet then you know skip off this article take general English we provide in our blog and then come back  to get full benefits ;once you're ready to take TOEFL but TOEFL preparation cannot take six months that's like too much one month two months maximum if you require more time that might indicate that your english level is not good enough but again I’m not a professional teacher this is just my opinion as a student as a person who's taken toefl and is a person who's been learning English for a long time.

 

Phrasal-Verbs

First of all you need a list of phrasal verbs phrasal verbs the ones that you cannot translate so you have to learn them and in TOEFL not only would you hear them in every single section but the test makers expect you to use them in the writing section so you really need to be good with phrasal verbs you need to know what they are and how to use them when to use them and not mix them up so we have  linked a free pdf with phrasal verbs that are useful for TOEFL and not just for TOEFL because we're not learning English just to take TOEFL we learn English to improve our lives ,please get it and take notes of all the phrasal verbs that are new for you or print it out hen highlight the phrasal verbs with a highlighter the ones that you don't know and learn them and start using them and start practicing right away.

Practice makes perfect

Number one is to just get familiar with the test, now let's look at the table we have a reading section that lasts from 54 to 72 minutes and sometimes you get lucky sometimes you just get extra tasks in each section and they don't count towards your final score they're just for the test takers to test some tasks but the thing is you will never know and i ended up having a longer reading section, and again it's the most tiring part you need to be really focused like my tip here would be to read everything do all the tasks and have at least five minutes to go back and just do the whole thing once again , answer questions about brief lectures or classroom discussions with listening it's very important to take the right notes and we're going to talk about that.

Have a 10 minute break that I would use to just relax and calm enjoy the process, because breaks are often make you get some easy notes ,and if you  have some templates in your head write them down on your piece of paper so you have something to look at during the actual speaking part (17 minutes)  which is four tasks talk about a familiar topic you may know before; so discuss material you've read and listened to. Start saying while you're still thinking about the the actual topic that really helps .

Listen to a recording  and type your response just because with writing they are looking for a diversified vocabulary they have some templates that they want you to use ,they look for a lot of introductory phrases and words and it's just so hard to accommodate all of their needs, I would highly recommend taking a free TOEFL prep test there is a website called TOEFLBANK for example you can go there and just take a couple of tests just to get the feeling of the atmosphere during the test, you know energy and optimism and starting with the hardest part and that applies to everything in life. So start with the hardest part because it's necessary and at the beginning you're more positive you have more energy and then test yourself every other week depending on how much time you're taking to prepare just to see whether you're progressing or not because if you're not progressing then maybe the methods that you've chosen to prepare for the test are not working then this applies to anyone if your test is in two years or in a year or in a week read for 30 minutes every day and please ( stop reading people's tweets please stop reading people's instagram posts start reading something that's related to TOEFL so BBC has all of those articles or you can go to a website Breakingnewsenglish.com  ,they take news and you're just able to read news in English and this is again the type of text that TOEFL uses in the exam) almost everywhere in reading read a lot of texts about geography like from national geographic or videos on YouTube or Podcast about different mammals etc. just go out there watch them because they would use that vocabulary in the test and also when you're reading try to answer some questions like :

  1. What is the main idea in the text?
  2.  What was the conflict?
  3. Who are the main characters?

Try to analyze the text while you're reading it because this is what you're going to do on the exam.

 

Templates

Now let's talk about the templates first of all templates provide you with a structure and this is what TOEFL guys are looking for .A structured answer, second they provide you with introductory phrases and all the linking words again this is something they're looking for all the time ,and third they just give you time to think about the actual topic because you're going to start your answer with the sentence : (Example – I don't know the author in the text talks about…… he gives two examples …..example number one is …the example number two this is the way the author describes…….)

Accents

The next tip is to expose yourself to non-American accents try to speak with an American accent and try to copy people who are around you.

 TOEFL uses a variety of accents there is the British accent in the test there is New-Zealand accent there is the Australian as well so your goal is to listen to those accents and to make yourself familiar because ,I don't want you to be surprised that you don't understand what's going on during the test when you hear British accent for example because ,it's different from the American accent, it's all about practice it's all about getting used to a variety of accents so make sure you just go on YouTube and look for different accents in the search and listen to those accents …and remember that TOEFL is an American exam like north- American but you don't have to sound north American you just need to be consistent so if you decided that you're going to use British English then please use “British English”; then color is with a “u” and a truck it's a “lorry” it's not gas it's “petrolso stay consistent with being British on the exam but if you decide to be American then stay consistent with being American so choose one of the versions of the English and stay consistent with it during the test but you're not required to speak as an American you can do whatever you want but again stay consistent the next tip.

Take Notes

Last but not least .Notes, I don't know how you can master it in two weeks if your exam is in two weeks but it's really important taking notes; so first of all there is this home test TOEFL home test experience and it's in terms of like note-taking it, actually taking notes in the non-real test using a real piece of paper with a real pencil helps imitating the atmosphere ,so you can write things down when you're at home because you take notes during listening and the more notes you take as much as you can so try to write everything that has  additional details…and watch some videos on note-taking watch some videos on how you can contract while you're writing because again this skill.




That’s all dear reader I hope that I could help you even a little bit, please don’t hesitate writing your own experience on getting TOEFL we are really ready to answer any question regarding your English journey, stay tuned for more Academic Tips-and-tricks

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