Improve Your Speaking Skills For The TOEFL Test

Are you ready to speak? I’m sure that most of the students ARE NOT. The TOEFL Test is actually stressful and when you’ll get to the speaking part you’ll starting to be tired. The reading and listening part use much of your energy and last more or less 2 hours. Your concentration is important, but is NOT enough!

The first thing you have to know is that there are two different kinds of speaking:

• Independent
• Integrated

During the independent tasks you will get a topic (usually is a question) and you’ll have 15 seconds to prepare your response. Than you have 45 seconds to speak. Maybe you think is not that much, but… what if you get an unexpected question? Let’s try together! Read the following question…

Some universities require first-year students to live in dormitories on campus. Others allow students to live off campus. Which policy do you think is better for first-year students and why? Include details and examples in your explanation.

Ok, now you have 15 seconds to prepare your response…

Ok, ready to speak for 45 seconds?

I know it's difficult!

But let me go on… I want to tell you about the integrated speaking. In this task, before starting to speak, you’ll hear a conversation or a lecture. In addition to that, in some integrated speaking you’ll have to read a short text and combine all the information to prepare you response. Here’s an example of how it works:

1. read a short paragraph (and take notes)
2. listen to a conversation or a lecture (and take notes)
3. prepare you response (20 or 30 seconds)
4. speak, comparing what you read and what you heard (45 or 60 seconds)

It’s kind of complicated, isn’t it? YES, it is!

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By Nick Judge
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