500 words, phrases, idioms for the TOEFL iBT plus typing strategies [electronic resource] / by Bruce Stirling.

Author: Stirling, Bruce.

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Nova Press, c2010.

ISBN: 9781889057767 (electronic bk.)
1889057762 (electronic bk.)

Description: 1 online resource (iv, 233 p.) : ill.

Subject: English language Idioms Study guides.
English language Terms and phrases Study guides.
Vocabulary Examinations Study guides.
English language Ability testing.
Test of English as a Foreign Language Study guides.
English language Textbooks for foreign speakers.
English language Examinations Study guides.
English language Study and teaching Foreign speakers.
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Notes: At head of title on cover: Nova's.
"Intergrated exercises: recycle academic English vocabulary across 50 lessons integrating six TOEFL skill sets: reading, listening, speaking, writing, spelling and typing. By doing so you will learn vocabulary more quickly and apply it more proficiently on test day. Typing strategies: learn essential TOEFL typing strategies. By doing so, you will increase your typing proficience, your essay scores, and your final TOEFL score. Bonus material: learn essential rhetorical strategies and a test-proven way to devlope opinion-based and fact-based TOEFL essays"--Cover.

Contents: Who is this book for?; How is this TOEFL book different?; Why Recycling?; Typing: An Essential TOEFL Strategy; Diagnostic Typing Test; Calculating Words-Per-Minute (WPM); Recycling Exercises; Typing Strategies; Answer Key; Scores; Bonus Material; Word List;

Summary: HOW IS THIS TOEFL BOOK DIFFERENT?. This TOEFL book is different because it uses an integrated vocabulary learning system called recycling. Recycling is simple. Each exercise is divided into four quizzes. Quiz 1, a multiple-choice vocabulary quiz, introduces ten new words. Next, you will do Quiz 2. Quiz 2 is a sentence-completion quiz based on the ten words in Quiz 1. Next, you will do Quiz 3, a spelling quiz. The speaker on the CD will say the same ten words in turn. You will then have ten seconds to spell each word by saying it and typing it. Finally, you will do Quiz 4. Quiz 4 is a 60-word t.