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Introduction to
Section
EQA INSTRUCTOR
Nguyen Thi Hong Hoa
Email: pnav2008@gmail.com
Mobile phone: 0904 308 639
BEFORE WE START
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Today a________,
tomorrow a
leader
- Margaret Fuller
OVERVIEW
Length of Each Number of Timing
Passage Passages and
Questions
• Designed by ETS
• General
• Quite easy
• Good to start with
• 01 audio CD
Cracking the TOEFL
• Excellent strategies
for all sections
• Written from the
perspective of the
test designer
• Easy to understand
• Excellent templates
for Speaking and
Writing sections
• Quite few exercises
• 01 audio CD
Longman
• Good overview of each
section
• Appropriate strategies
• A large number of skill-
based exercises
• 08 Mini-tests and 02
complete tests
• Easy level, suitable to
practice right after
understanding the
general format of the
test
• 08 audio CDs
• 01 CD-ROM for sample
Delta Key
• Appropriate
strategies
• A lot of practice
exercises, also
skill-based (similar
to Longman) but
more challenging
• A lot of practice
tests
• 10 audio CDs
• Pdf version
available
Cambridge
• Study plan
instruction
• Study strategies &
academic strategies
• Skill-based
exercises
• 2 Practice Tests in
book
• 7 Practice Tests in
CD-ROM
Barron
• Clarify academic skills
that ETS want to test
• 07 model tests with
explanations, esp.
speaking and writing
samples
• Very difficult, suitable
after all other iBT
books have been
studied
• Particularly
challenging listening
passages compared
with Longman or Delta
Key
• 10 audio CDs
Kaplan
• theme-based
• few strategies
• Challenging tests
• 01 audio CD, 01
CD-ROM for iBT
tests
• Available for
purchase near the
FTU
North Star
• 2 levels:
Intermediate and
High Intermediate
• Theme-based
• ETS practice tests
• Quite easy, suitable
for beginners
• 04 audio CDs
The Michigan Guide
• 300 words for the
TOEFL iBT
• Best for teachers’
reference
Over 20 more books are
coming, including:
Along with more than
50 audio CDs and
CD-ROMS
TOEFL iBT Tests
• Purchased directly from the United
States
How to access these
materials?
• EQuest has a library
with all its materials
accessible
– 30,000 a year
– A 3x4 photo
– Equest Office
• Bookstores: 40B or
80B Ba Trieu Str.
E-materials
• www.ets.org/toefl
• http://
petrusky.net/dhvn/tlieu/DeltaKeyTOEFLiBT.pd
• http://www.free-english.com/TOEFL-iBT-pract