TOEFL Skill for The Paper Test

Section One: Listening Comprehension
The Listening Part A Questions

Strategies
Skill 1: Focus on the second line
Skill 2: Choose answers with synonyms
Skill 3: Avoid similar sounds

Who, What, Where
Skill 4: Draw conclusions about who, what, where
Skill 5: Listen for who and what in passives
Skill 6: Listen for who and what with multiple nouns

Negatives
Skill 7: Listen for negative expressions
Skill 8: Listen for double negative expressions
Skill 9: Listen for "almost negative" expressions
SKILL 10: Listen for negatives with comparatives

Functions
Skill 11: Listen for expressions of agreement
Skill 12: Listen for expressions of uncertainty and suggestion
Skill 13: Listen for emphatic expressions of surprise

Contrary Meanings
Skill 14: Listen for wishes
Skill 15: Listen for untrue conditions

Idiomatic Language
Skill 16: Listen for two- and three-part verbs
Skill 17: Listen for idioms

The Listening Part B Questions

Before Listening
Skill 18: Anticipate the topics
Skill 19: Anticipate the questions

While Listening
Skill 20: Determine the topic
Skill 21: Draw conclusions about who, what, when, where
Skill 22: Listen for answers in order

The Listening Part C Questions

Before Listening
Skill 23: Anticipate the topics
Skill 24: Anticipate the questions

While Listening
Skill 25: Determine the topic
Skill 26: Draw conclusions about who, what, when, where
Skill 27: Listen for answers in order

Section Two: STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION

Sentences with One Clause
Skill 1: Be sure the sentence has a subject and a verb
Skill 2: Be careful of objects of prepositions
Skill 3: Be careful of appositives
Skill 4: Be careful of present participles
Skill 5: Be careful of past participles

Sentences with Multiple Clauses
Skill 6: Use coordinate connectors correctly
Skill 7: Use adverb time and cause connectors correctly
Skill 8: Use other adverb connectors correctly

More Sentences with Multiple Clauses
Skill 9: Use noun clause connectors correctly
Skill 10: Use noun clause connector/subjects correctly
Skill 11: Use adjective clause connectors correctly
Skill 12: Use adjective clause connector/subjects correctly

Sentences with Reduced Clauses
Skill 13: Use reduced adjective clauses correctly
Skill 14: Use reduced adverb clauses correctly

Sentences with Inverted Subjects and Verbs
Skill 15: Invert the subject and verb with question words
Skill 16: Invert the subject and verb with place expressions
Skill 17: Invert the subject and verb with negatives
Skill 18: Invert the subject and verb with conditionals
Skill 19: Invert the subject and verb with comparisons

The Written Expression Questions

Problems with Subject/Verb Agreement
Skill 20: Make verbs agree after prepositional phrases
Skill 21: Make verbs agree after expressions of quantity
Skill 22: Make inverted verbs agree
Skill 23: Make verbs agree after certain words

Problems with Parallel Structure
Skill 24: Use parallel structure with coordinate conjunctions
Skill 25: Use parallel structure with paired conjunctions
Skill 26: Use parallel structure with comparisons

Problems with Comparatives and Superlatives
Skill 27: Form comparatives and superlatives correctly
Skill 28: Use comparatives and superlatives correctly
Skill 29: Use the irregular -er, -er structure correctly

Problems with the Form of the Verb
Skill 30: After have, use the past participle
Skill 31: After be, use the present participle or the past participle
Skill 32: After will, would, or other modals, use the base form of the verb

Problems with the Use of the Verb
Skill 33: Know when to use the past with the present
Skill 34: Use have and had correctly
Skill 35: Use the correct tense with time expressions
Skill 36: Use the correct tense with will and would

Problems with Passive Verbs
Skill 37: Use the correct form of the passive
Skill 38: Recognize active and passive meanings

Problems with Nouns
Skill 39: Use the correct singular or plural noun
Skill 40: Distinguish countable and uncountable nouns
Skill 41: Recognize irregular plurals of nouns
Skill 42: Distinguish the person from the thing

Problems with Pronouns
Skill 43: Distinguish subject and object pronouns
Skill 44: Distinguish possessive adjectives and pronouns
Skill 45: Check pronoun reference for agreement

Problems with Adjectives and Adverbs
Skill 46: Use basic adjectives and adverbs correctly
Skill 47: Use adjectives after linking verbs
Skill 48: Position adjectives and adverbs correctly

More Problems with Adjectives
Skill 49: Recognize -ly adjectives
Skill 50: Use predicate adjectives correctly
Skill 51: Use -ed and -ing adjectives correctly

Problems with Articles
Skill 52: Use articles with singular nouns
Skill 53: Distinguish a and an
Skill 54: Make articles agree with nouns
Skill 55: Distinguish specific and general ideas

Problems with Prepositions
Skill 56: Recognize incorrect prepositions
Skill 57: Recognize when prepositions have been omitted

Problems with Usage
Skill 58: Distinguish make and do
Skill 59: Distinguish like, alike, unlike and dislike
Skill 60: Distinguish other, another, and others

Section Three: READING COMPREHENSION

Questions about the Ideas of the Passage
Skill 1: Answer main idea questions correctly
Skill 2: Recognize the organization of ideas

Directly Answered Questions
Skill 3: Answer stated detail questions correctly
Skill 4: Find "unstated" details
Skill 5: Find pronoun referents
TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 3–5)
TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 1–5)

Indirectly Answered Questions
Skill 6: Answer implied detail questions correctly
Skill 7: Answer transition questions correctly

Vocabulary Questions
Skill 8: Find definitions from structural clues
Skill 9: Determine meanings from word parts
Skill 10: Use context to determine meanings of difficult words
Skill 11: Use context to determine meanings of simple words

Overall Review Questions
Skill 12: Determine where specific information is found
Skill 13: Determine the tone, purpose, or course

Section Four: Test of Written English (TWE)

Before Writing
Skill 1: Decode the topic
Skill 2: Develop supporting ideas

While Writing
Skill 3: Write the introductory paragraph
Skill 4: Write unified supporting paragraphs
Skill 5: Write the concluding paragraph
Skill 6: Connect the supporting paragraphs in the essay

After Writing
Skill 7: Edit sentence structure
7A Simple sentence structure
7B Compound sentence structure
7C Complex sentence structure

Skill 8: Edit written expression
8A Inversions and agreement
8B Parallel, comparative, and superlative structures
8C Verbs
8D Nouns and pronouns
8E Adjectives and adverbs
8F Prepositions and usage