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鳳 雷 多
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The TOEIC Students at Warema
1 February 2011
Dear Students, one important element in your preparation for the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) is a good vocabulary in a variety of subject areas. The teaching materials provide a list of ‘six hundred essential words’, which TOEIC candidates are encouraged to learn at a rate of twelve words a day in the weeks that lead up to the test. So, while the time that remains for you to prep are for the test is quite sufficient, it is also obvious that the lessons can only cover some of the material and that you have to make a daily learning effort outside the lessons as well. The ‘six hundred essential words’ are grouped into five lots of twelve words under each of the following headings, so that you could think of your learning task as a fifty days long exercise. I. II. III. IV. V.
General Business Office Issues Personnel Purchasing Financing and Budgeting
Management Issues VII. Restaurants and Events VIII. Travel IX. Entertainment X. Health VI.
You will note that I have placed hyperlinks into categories (I), (II), (III), (IV) and (V) of the above ten categories. Please open those hyperlinks and familiarise yourself with the lists of twelve words to which each of them leads. Consider those sixty words as a first batch of required learning for our next two lessons. I have also appended an exercise to the lists of twelve words of the categories (I) and (II). Please do those two exercises by printing the paragraphs and completing them with the missing words. (You may find it easier to print the required pages from this download link, rather than from the online viewer.) Then please bring the thus completed paragraphs with you to our lesson on the Wednesday of this week. As for the next three categories - (III), (IV) and (V) - please write a short paragraph of two or three sentences which contain some of the words from one or
a letter of 1 February 2011 by Ingo Porada to the TOEIC Students at Warema more of those categories. You can model your own short paragraph on the paragraph that forms the exercise for categories (I) and (II), but you do not need to make it that long, and you do not need to use all the words from the vocabulary lists. Just try to use four or five of the words from categories (III), (IV) and (V) in your own paragraph. For guidance, you could look up some of those words. I would recommend the website www.linguee.com for that purpose; it gives usage examples of most words and even audio clips with their pronunciations as well. During the lessons, we will do additional exercises with some of the new vocabulary, as well as some selected exercises from our course book. And I will provide you with further such vocabulary lists, in the same manner of organisation, already again after our lesson of this week, and then again from week to week thereafter as well. If you need further ideas about the context in which the respective words might be useful, you could look them up - the nouns at any rate - on the English pages or the Simple English pages of Wikipedia, for example. I would also recommend to you the several ‘Visual Dictionary’ and ‘Pictorial Dictionary’ sites - including www.visuwords.com, www.visual.merriam-webster.com and www.pdictionary.com - that you may find when you ‘google’ those expressions. Some of those sites also have their own exercises. Furthermore, as learning resources in audio format, we have - first of all - the compact disks in our course book. In addition, if we can get them to work on the audio equipment that is in the classroom, I will gladly assemble some relevant MP3 files for collective listening by us during the lessons. Finally, I give you here a tentative signpost for our lesson of this week: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
short reflection on the previous week’s lesson: discussion of homework (i. e., the above-mentioned exercises): further exercises with the new vocabulary for this week: a model test in listening comprehension: any queries and loose ends . . . :
10” 10” 15” 45” 10”
To prepare for the model test in listening comprehension, you could practice with some of the tracks on compact disk one in the course book, if you still have enough time before tomorrow’s lesson. Best regards
Ing o ii