Ways to improve TOEFL scores

TOEFL is sometimes a basic competition, and "vocabulary" and "reading long and difficult sentences" play an extremely important role in promoting the later specific training.

Vocabulary: As long as the vocabulary is ok, the following four items can save a lot of time.

Long and difficult sentences: Needless to say, the complexity of TOEFL long and difficult sentences is obvious to all friends. If you want to have a chance in every subject, you have to be able to translate and analyze, and you have to understand the sentence structure and the deep meaning of the sentence.

Second, the formal preparation stage

1. Read

If you want to be steady in the next event, you must gain a firm foothold in TOEFL reading and get high marks. At ordinary times, we should go from shallow to deep and improve steadily, with emphasis on vocabulary, grammar and long and difficult sentences.

Vocabulary: Remember as much as possible, after all, there are few annoying words when you use them.

Grammar: first of all, understand the grammar knowledge required by TOEFL. It is best to learn it in class (generally, the grammar learning cycle in class is short), and then you can brush the questions. After washing your hands, you can answer questions directly from TPO. Of course, when you brush the questions, you must sum up the wrong questions, otherwise you will really forget them quickly.

Long and difficult sentence: This is really difficult. I stumbled a few times that year. Complex sentence patterns and countless nesting have made me suffer enough, not to mention the logical analysis behind. You must follow these three steps.

Step 1: Distinguish simple sentences from complex sentences.

After you get the sentence, extract the main structure (subject-predicate-object definite complement). If you find that there is only one subject-predicate structure, and each component consists of words or phrases, it is a simple sentence. If there is a clause, it is a complex sentence.

The second step is to judge the backbone+internal logic.

If it is a simple sentence, just extract the subject, predicate and object. If it is a compound sentence, we can judge the logical relationship between sentences, which is generally juxtaposition, causality, turning and comparison.

The third step is to compare the answers

After judging the trunk and logic, you need to compare with the following answers. As long as the option corresponds to the trunk, it is generally the correct option.

Step 2 listen

Take the normal preparation route for listening preparation, and make efforts in three aspects: sound discrimination, reaction speed and listening notes? .

Distinguish sound

Dictation: record all the listening, then compare it with the original, and do it repeatedly every day until you can hear the recording clearly.

Intensive listening: Listen repeatedly with the correct answers and underline the unfamiliar words until you can finish listening to the speech.

reaction rate

Listening to the recording plays very fast. If you want to listen clearly and answer at the same time, you need to practice your reaction speed. It is a good way to change the speed of listening to the recording. By constantly speeding up the playing speed of listening recording and practicing listening practice, you can improve your reaction ability. Of course, if you are a beginner, you'd better start with the original speed of listening.

Listening notes

The TOEFL test accelerates listening and needs the assistance of listening notes. Usually it is best to give priority to listening, supplemented by writing. Candidates can choose the lecture content to practice. First understand the main idea of the article, sort out the simple rules of some keywords, and then write down the relevant content slowly, quickly and accurately.

3. Oral English

There is only one way to improve oral English, that is, opening your mouth to practice, focusing on four aspects: simulating environment, selecting materials, retelling and enriching language:

Simulated environment: often create a language environment in the brain and practice with different ways of speaking and intonation.

Material selection: purposefully select materials, start with small stories, try to be simple, vivid and vivid, pay attention to details when practicing, and finally improve the coherence of the language.

Learn to repeat: read through the article first, and then repeat it in your own language. Of course, you can bring Chinese at first. When reading an article, you must find keywords and some sentence patterns that can be used as retelling clues.

Rich language: TOEFL oral test needs vivid manners and expressions, and needs to change intonation or sentence patterns more, so as to get high marks.

writing

Mainly accumulation. If you want to get high marks in this subject, it depends on your perseverance. You must give up your impatience in the past and concentrate on the accumulation of vocabulary and sentence patterns. Without their help, it is impossible to get high marks.

Vocabulary: Pay attention to reciting and understanding, especially the spelling of words, and pay attention to synonyms in daily practice.

Sentence patterns: Changing sentence patterns is extremely useful for TOEFL writing, and usually focuses on accumulating advanced sentence patterns.

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