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TOEFL

The TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) measures the level of English language proficiency of non-
native speakers of English. The test has four sections - Listening Comprehension, Structure and Written
Expression, Reading Comprehension and Test of Written English.

TOEFL is prepared by Educational Testing Service (ETS) from Princeton, New Jersey, USA. It is an admission
requirement at colleges and universities in the United States and other parts of the world. In addition many
scholarship and professional certification programs now require their applicants to take the TOEFL.

HOW TO DO THE TESTS

Each TOEFL test consists of 4 sections (Listening Comprehension, Structure and Written Expression, Reading
Comprehension a Test of Written English), the first three of these are evaluated automatically by the computer. The
time reserved for each section is limited, therefore read carefully how to proceed in the tests before you start work.
You are not allowed to return to the previous sections. After exceeding the time limit you will automatically continue
with the next section.

The fourth section is not included in the tests. Some advice and recommendations relating to this section can be
found in Test of Written English of The Heinemann TOEFL Preparation Course.



Procedure:
1. When doing a test for the first time, read carefully the introductory information and directions to the individual
sections. The introductions in the test are not modified, they correspond to the classic paper tests.
2. To answer the questions is very simple. Just click on one of the choices. The selected choice will be
highlighted.
3. In Listening section you have 12 seconds to answer each question. After this time limit elapses you will
automatically continue with the next question. In other sections of the test you will click on one of the
possibilities and confirm your choice clicking DONE button. Doing so you will activate the next question. It is not
necessary to use DONE button, you can just answer the question and then click the following question.
4. You can also select the question by clicking the question number above the panel with the questions or using
the scroll bar on the right side of question panel and then clicking directly the chosen question. NOTICE! It is
necessary to select question first (it must have white background) only then can you choose one of the possible
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answers.
5. In each section of the test you can watch your time limit and the number of already completed questions on the
right panel.
6. To switch to the next part of the test use GO ON button (in the bottom right corner).

Note:
All the tests are time limited. The Listening section is time controlled (you have 12 seconds for your answer) so you
will probably have no time for additional corrections.

For easier orientation, the questions are marked with following colours:

white current question
light blue unanswered question
dark blue completed question

If you finish the test or if the time limit exceeds, you can have the test evaluated. Then you can check you score and
review the answers.

Short checkpoint tests and longer section tests can be done in the same way as complete TOEFL practice tests.


HOW TO USE THIS COURSE

1. Start with the diagnostic test. On the basis of the results of the test the Personal Planner will recommend a
structure of checkpoints for you to follow to eliminate your weaknesses in English.

2. At the beginning of each TOEFL section you will be acquainted with recommended strategies, which will help
you to succeed in the TOEFL exam.

3. Each checkpoint contains both theory (grammar explanations, useful recommendations) and practice
(exercises - often with the time limit). Your task is to study these recommended checkpoints.

4. Following study of several checkpoints there will always be a short checkpoint test aimed at assessing your
competence in their usage. Based upon your results of these tests your personal plan may be modified

5. After working through all of the checkpoints relating to one section of the TOEFL test you should complete a
section test. The result of this may once again influence your further learning plan.

6. Naturally at any time during your work you may go through the checkpoints which do not figure in your personal
plan. In the case that you are limited by time for study the simplest and most effective course of action is to
concentrate first on those areas highlighted by the Intelligent Personal Planner as your weaknesses.

7. You can also work through the tests from The Heinemann TOEFL Practice Tests title throughout the course
of your study.

8. To improve your listening comprehension, the accompanying texts to all the recorded parts are available.

9. Further useful recommendations can be found in chapters: Notes for the Teacher and Notes for the Self-
Study Student in the introduction to The Heinemann TOEFL Preparation Course.

ASSISTANT

Throughout the course of your work you are guided by an Assistant (the little figure in the upper right corner). It
watches you constantly, tells you what to do (what is your task) in tests and exercises, evaluates your answers,
helps you to work with your Preparation Plan for TOEFL and always offers you the steps available in a current
situation.

If you need some advice, click the Assistant.

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HOW TO USE OUTLINE

The screens of the application are often divided into two parts. In the left part is an outline, while the textual
information is displayed in the right part. The items in the outline can have several levels. The items that are further
itemized are marked or (depending on the fact, if they are expanded or collapsed). The items on the lowest
level are marked , or .

The items can be expanded or collapsed by clicking the respective item or by right mouse click in the outline
window and choosing command from menu.

The items marked or are exercises and tests - by clicking them you will start the respective exercise or test.
The remaining items, marked are textual explanations. By clicking them, the respective text will be displayed in
the right part of the screen.

The items that have been already completed are marked with a little grey mark. Checkpoints with the highest
priority are marked with a little red mark.

Marking:

collapsed items
expanded items
texts
exercises
checkpoint or section tests

grey mark completed item
blue mark uncompleted item with a normal priority
red mark uncompleted item with a high priority

USING THE KEYS

In all the tests and in exercises you can also use these keys:

Arrow Up/Down previous/next question
ENTER confirmation of the answer (corresponds to clicking on the DONE button on the current
question)
TAB switch between edit windows
A, B, C, D selection of a possible answer

NOTEBOOK

The Notebook, which also contains a diary, enables the student to append user's notes to the pages from the
LANGMaster applications. The notes can be searched or sorted according to various criteria. They can also be
recalled on the given day. Work with the Notebook is very simple.

To switch to the Notebook click the Notebook button in the upper control bar with a left mouse button. If you click
the Notebook button with a right mouse button you can: append your note to a current page, display (view) this
note, add a page to your list of favourite pages or display (view) some of your favourite pages.

For further information see help for Notebook application.
INTRODUCTION

The Heinemann TOEFL is a specialized course from the LANGMaster series suitable for both in-class and self
study, which will improve your knowledge of English and prepare you for the TOEFL examination. It comprises not
only practice tests, but also complete grammar review, exercises focused on the development of skills tested in the
TOEFL exam and strategies that will help you to succeed in TOEFL tests. The Heinemann TOEFL consists of two
self-contained parts - The Heinemann TOEFL Preparation Course (basic title) and The Heinemann TOEFL Practice
Tests (TOEFL tests for further practice).
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A Personal Planner is a unique facility, which will reveal the weaknesses in your knowledge of English and thus
enable you to concentrate preferentially on them.

Notebook is another original helper, which will faciliate writing and sorting your own notes to this course as well as
to other titles of Electronic Publishing Association (EPA). Further facilities you can make use of are information
about Progress and overall Statistics.

Several users can work with the application on one computer, each of them having his own personal plan of
preparation for TOEFL exam. The multiuser version can be selected in Notebook on the "Other possibilities" card.

In the course you will encounter summaries (grammar, vocabulary, strategies), checkpoints, which comprise the
textual part with theory explanation, and several exercises for practice, and of course a number of practice tests -
short checkpoint tests, longer section tests and the complete TOEFL practice tests. Before you start work with the
course, read How to use this course.

Basic controls can be found in the upper control bar. Other functions are available from menu, that will appear on
the screen after right mouse click. You can also use some keys on your keyboard. During your work with the tests,
exercises and Personal Plan you will be guided by an Assistant.

You should also know how to ...
use outline
do the tests
do the exercises
review answers

Other useful information about work with this course can be found in the part INTRODUCTION of The Heinemann
TOEFL Preparation Course.

PERSONAL PLANNER

A unique facility, a Personal Planner, is a part of The Heinemann TOEFL application. On the basis of performed
tests it makes up the student's personal plan of improvement, suggesting checkpoints to study to eliminate
weaknesses in those parts of English which would otherwise have hindered successful completion of the TOEFL
exam. The Personal Plan is divided into the same sections as real TOEFL test (Listening Comprehension, Structure
and Written Expression and Reading Comprehension) arranged according to priorities (the section that you are
weakest in, will be first on the list). Checkpoints, that are of key importance for you, are marked red.

Your Personal Plan can be accessed either from the main screen of The Heinemann TOEFL Preparation Course
or from the menu that will appear on the screen after right mouse click. Work with the plan is very simple. Start with
a diagnostic test from The Heinemann TOEFL Preparation Course. Then you will be guided by the Assistant.
When choosing a checkpoint from your plan, study the theory first then do all the exercises. The simpliest way of
going through the plan is to press GO ON button and follow the instructions of the Assistant.

The Personal Planner cooperates with The Heinemann TOEFL Practice Tests. All the tests from this title will
modify your Personal Plan.

PLAYING SOUND



Sound Player functions:
Go to the beginning, Stop playing sound (Stop), Start playing sound (Play), Go to the previous sentence, Go
to the following sentence, Replay the current sentence.
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Sound Player can be closed by clicking the Close button in the upper right corner. To display the sound player click
the icon

You can also use sound player while reviewing answers in the Listening exercises and in Listening section of the
practice tests.

In Audioscripts section you can read and play back the recorded texts. To play the sound, click on the sound
mark next to the sentence or use the Sound Player.

HOW TO REVIEW THE ANSWERS

After completing a test (clicking GO ON button on the last screen) or an exercise (clicking EVALUATEbutton) you
can review your answers and compare them with the correct answers. In some cases, when the correct answer is
not unambiguous, you will see one of the suggested correct answers. Your answers that are evaluated as wrong
are marked red.

Procedure:
1. Finish the test or exercise ( GO ON button in the last screen of the test or EVALUATE button in the exercise).
2. Choose Review the test or Evaluate the exercise in the Assistant dialog box.
3. Go again through all the questions by clicking the question number above the panel with the questions or using
the scroll bar on the right side of the question panel. Pay special attention to the red-marked (wrong) answers.
4. In each question you can see your answer and also the correct answer (or one of the correct answers). Some
other functions can be available from the bottom part of the question panel. They enable you to replay the
sound recording relating to the question or to study the detailed explanation relating to the choice of the correct
answer.
5. While reviewing a test you can use the outline in the right panel. Clicking the item in the outline you will switch
yourself to the respective part of the test.
6. After reviewing all the answers close the test (exercise) using the QUIT button.

RIGHT MOUSE CLICK

It is possible to use right mouse click on control buttons, pages, in the outline and so on. The right mouse click on
the upper control bar buttons has the same effect as clicking the little arrow in the bottom right corner of the buttons
with a left mouse button. The same menu with choices will appear on the screen in both cases.

The right mouse click has a very important function on the Notebook button. It enables you to append your note to
a current page, display (view) this note, include a page in your list of favourite pages or display (view) some of your
favourite pages.

All the functions available by the right mouse click can also be accessed using the left mouse click.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Electronic Publishing Association LLC
c/o Dr LANG group
Branicka 107
147 00 Praha 4
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 2 4446 0807
Fax: +420 2 4446 3411
Hotline: +420 2 4446 3099
E-mail: support@epaonline.com

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UPPER CONTROL BAR

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BACK
Switch to a previous page (screen)
This button is mainly used to return from the page to which you get by a hypertext reference (frequently used are
e.g. references to Appendices). Click the reference, after studying the additional information click BACK button to
return.


FORWARD
Switch to a previous page (available only after previous use of BACKbutton).


HOME
Return to the introductory screen of the application.


CATALOGUE
A catalogue with a survey of multimedia titles published by Electronic Publishing Association (EPA).


NOTEBOOK
Notebook for creating user's notes.


HELP
Help for this application.


EXIT
Closing the application.

As well as left mouse click you can also use the right mouse click on the upper control bar buttons (especially on
the Notebook).Right mouse clickhas the same effect as clicking the little arrow in its bottom right corner with a left
mouse button. The same menu with choices will appear on the screen in both cases.






ABOUT THE HEINEMANN TOEFL

A preparation course with an Intelligent Personal Planner designed for advanced students of English mainly those
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who are preparing for the TOEFL examination.

Produced in cooperation of Electronic Publishing Association LLC (EPA) with Heinemann ELT.

Data: (c) 1995, 1996 Carolyn B. Duffy, M. Kathleen Mahnke
Software: (c) 1998 Dr. LANG group Ltd., a member of EPA

Based on textbooks: The Heinemann TOEFL Preparation Course and The Heinemann TOEFL Practice Tests.

TOEFL is the registered trademark of Educational Testing Service (ETS).

Electronic Publishing Association LLC
c/o Dr. LANG group, s.r.o.
Branicka 107
147 00 Praha 4
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 2 4446 0807
Fax: +420 2 4446 3411
Hotline: +420-2-4446 3099
E-mail: support@epaonline.com
http://www.epaonline.com

HOW TO DO THE EXERCISES



Procedure:
1. Read carefully the introductory instruction of the Assistant from which you will learn how to work with the
exercise. Then start with the first question.
2. Answer the question and confirm your answer clicking the DONE button. By this you will activate the next
question. Only the following types of answers (or their combination) can occur in the exercises.:

INTRODUCTORY INSTRUCTION Choose ...
TYPE OF ANSWER: Selection from several possibilities by clicking on one of the choices.

If you want to choose another possibility click on the new choice and the original selection will be cancelled.

INTRODUCTORY INSTRUCTION: Fill in ..., Type ..., Rewrite ..., Unscramble ...
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TYPE OF ANSWER: Typing the text in the edit window or correction of the test in the edit window.
All the corrections can be done using standard keys for editing text - DEL, BACKSPACE, etc.


INTRODUCTORY INSTRUCTION: Identify ...
TYPE OF ANSWER: Marking a word or several words in a sentence by clicking the word or dragging the mouse
cursor over several words with the left mouse button pressed. After releasing the button a menu with some
possibilities to choose from can appear.
You can cancel your choice clicking the marked word or by dragging cursor over the marked words.

INTRODUCTORY INSTRUCTION: Put into groups ...
TYPE OF ANSWER: Clicking a word and then clicking the group to which this word should be included.

The choice can be changed by clicking a different group.

For easier orientation, the questions are marked with following colours:

white current question
light blue unanswered question
dark blue completed question

If you finish the exercise and do not want to make any changes you can let it evaluate ( EVALUATEbutton) and
review the answers.