Focus on TOEFL

Introduction

Focus on TOEFL is an online course designed for students who are thinking of taking the TOEFL exam. It consists of 12 modules and 200 units of English and provides approximately 120 hours of study for students.

Course aims

  • Take students from CEFR B2 up to C1.
  • Provide coaching and practice in all areas of the TOEFL exam to ensure students are fully prepared when taking the test.
  • Blend grammatical structures necessary for this level with vocabulary, including collocations, phrasal verbs, idioms, spelling, reading, listening, writing, and speaking.

Γραμματική

By the end of the course, students will be able to…

      • Use present, past, and future tenses accurately in the simple and continuous forms.
      • Be proficient in the use of perfect tenses in the simple and continuous forms.
      • Use conditionals to talk about real and unreal situations in present, past, and future.
      • Report what people said using correct verb forms and appropriate reporting verbs.
      • Talk about actions and states using active and passive forms appropriately.
      • Use modal verbs for various functions and past modals when necessary.
      • Use linking words and phrases to express ideas such as addition, contrast, reason, and conclusion.
      • Use verbs correctly regarding transitivity and what forms follow them.
      • Compare adjectives and adverbs using advanced comparatives and superlatives.
      • Talk about quantity.

Λεξιλόγιο

      • Learn approximately 1000 lexical items, including gradable and non-gradable adjectives, adverbs, phrasal verbs, idiomatic language, and lexical sets.

Skills

      • Gain exposure to and practice in reading and listening to formal and informal materials from a range of settings and registers.

Unit Summary

Module 1

  • Λεξιλόγιο: Adjectives of character and mood
  • Γραμματική: Present Tenses
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Jobs and professions
  • Γραμματική: Past Tenses
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 01
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 01
  • Spelling: Spelling test 01
  • Ανάγνωση: A Winter’s Tale
  • Ακρόαση: Chess
  • Ανάγνωση: Buddhism
  • Ακρόαση: A traffic report
  • Revision: Focus on TOEFL Module 01 Revision Test
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Reading – general points
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Listening – general points
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Writing – general points
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Speaking – general points

Module 2

  • Λεξιλόγιο: Parts of the body
  • Γραμματική: Comparatives and superlatives
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Transport
  • Γραμματική: Countable and Uncountable nouns
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 02
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 02
  • Spelling: Spelling test 02
  • Ανάγνωση: Michelangelo
  • Ακρόαση: The internet
  • Ανάγνωση: Oxford
  • Ακρόαση: Waiting at the airport
  • Revision: Focus on TOEFL Module 02 Revision Test
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Reading – factual questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Reading – factual questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Listening – factual questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Listening – factual questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Speaking – Independent speaking task 1

Module 3

  • Λεξιλόγιο: Feeling ill 1
  • Γραμματική: Present Perfect
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Feeling ill 2
  • Γραμματική: Present Perfect Continuous
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 03
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 03
  • Spelling: Spelling test 03
  • Ανάγνωση: Shakespeare’s early life
  • Ακρόαση: Working in London
  • Ανάγνωση: The European Commission Audit
  • Ακρόαση: My love affair with music
  • Revision: Focus on TOEFL Module 03 Revision Test
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Reading – inference questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Reading – inference questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Listening – inference questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Listening – inference questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Writing – Independent Writing task – defending an opinion

Module 4

  • Λεξιλόγιο: Gradable and non-gradable adjectives
  • Γραμματική: Going to and Will
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Confusing Words 1
  • Γραμματική: Future Continuous
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 04
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 04
  • Spelling: Spelling test 04
  • Ανάγνωση: The Naadam festival in Mongolia
  • Ακρόαση: Zimbabwe
  • Ανάγνωση: Old Goriot
  • Ακρόαση: Being polite in Japanese
  • Revision: Focus on TOEFL Module 04 Revision Test
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Reading – reference questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Reading – reference
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Listening – main purpose or topic questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Listening – main purpose or topic questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Speaking – Independent speaking task 2

Module 5

  • Λεξιλόγιο: Clothes 1
  • Γραμματική: So and Such
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Clothes 2
  • Γραμματική: Too and Enough
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 05
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 05
  • Spelling: Spelling test 05
  • Ανάγνωση: Aspirin
  • Ακρόαση: Brand loyalty
  • Ανάγνωση: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Ακρόαση: How luxury brands are surviving the recession
  • Revision: Focus on TOEFL Module 05 Revision Test
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Reading – vocabulary questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Reading – vocabulary questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Listening – attitude questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Listening – attitude questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Writing – Independent Writing task – defending an opinion

Module 6

  • Λεξιλόγιο: Containers
  • Γραμματική: Say and Tell
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Household chores
  • Γραμματική: Ed and Ing adjectives
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 01
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 06
  • Spelling: Spelling test 06
  • Ανάγνωση: Garlic
  • Ακρόαση: Innovative advertising techniques
  • Ανάγνωση: NAFTA
  • Ακρόαση: The Tin Drum
  • Revision: Focus on TOEFL Module 06 Revision Test
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Reading – writer intention questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Reading – writer intention questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Listening – multiple answer questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Listening – sentence addition questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Speaking – Integrated speaking task 1

Module 7

  • Λεξιλόγιο: Shops
  • Γραμματική: Articles
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Verbs connected with cooking
  • Γραμματική: Passive
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 02
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 07
  • Spelling: Spelling test 07
  • Ανάγνωση: Oxford University
  • Ακρόαση: The origin of crosswords
  • Ανάγνωση: Paraguay
  • Ακρόαση: Novelist Alistair Maclean
  • Revision: Focus on TOEFL Module 07 Revision Test
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Reading – sentence addition questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Reading – inference questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Listening – multiple answer questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Writing – Independent Writing task – viewing both sides of an argument

Module 8

  • Λεξιλόγιο: Shapes and dimensions
  • Γραμματική: Gerunds and infinitives
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Confusing words 2
  • Γραμματική: Conjunctions and connectors
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 03
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 08
  • Spelling: Spelling test 08
  • Ανάγνωση: Simon Bolivar
  • Ακρόαση: Gambling addiction
  • Ανάγνωση: The Basque language
  • Ακρόαση: Beowulf
  • Revision: Focus on TOEFL Module 08 Revision Test
  • Exam: TOEFL Further practice: Reading – factual questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Reading – inference questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Further practice: Listening – factual questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Speaking – Integrated speaking task 2

Module 9

  • Λεξιλόγιο: Things in the bedroom
  • Γραμματική: Past Perfect
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Things in the kitchen
  • Γραμματική: Past modals – Must and Should
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 04
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 09
  • Spelling: Spelling test 09
  • Ανάγνωση: The Black Death
  • Ακρόαση: Burma
  • Ανάγνωση: The life of Aristotle
  • Ακρόαση: Crocodiles
  • Revision: Focus on TOEFL Module 09 Revision Test
  • Exam: TOEFL Further practice: Reading – inference questions
  • Exam: Further practice: Listening – inference questions
  • Exam: Coaching: Writing – Independent Writing task – explaining the importance of a development or invention

Module 10

  • Λεξιλόγιο: Things in the living room
  • Γραμματική: Passive voice
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Parts of the house
  • Γραμματική: Question tags
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 05
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 10
  • Spelling: Spelling test 10
  • Ανάγνωση: The Spice Girls
  • Ακρόαση: Cyber waste
  • Ανάγνωση: Albert Einstein
  • Ακρόαση: David Beckham
  • Revision: Focus on TOEFL Module 10 Revision Test
  • Exam: TOEFL Further practice: Reading – reference questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Further practice: Listening – main purpose or topic questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Speaking – Integrated speaking task 3

Module 11

  • Λεξιλόγιο: Make and do
  • Γραμματική: Relative Clauses
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Confusing words 3
  • Γραμματική: Verb Patterns
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 01
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 11
  • Spelling: Spelling test 01
  • Ανάγνωση: Architecture in the 1960’s
  • Ακρόαση: Mars
  • Ανάγνωση: Albert Einstein
  • Ακρόαση: Sao Tome
  • Revision: Focus on TOEFL Module 11 Revision Test
  • Exam: TOEFL Further practice: Reading – vocabulary questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Further practice: Listening – attitude questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Coaching: Writing – Integrated writing task

Module 12

  • Λεξιλόγιο: Animals
  • Γραμματική: Reported Speech
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Adjectives of character
  • Γραμματική: Third Conditional
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 02
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 12
  • Spelling: Spelling test 02
  • Ανάγνωση: Feeling petty
  • Ακρόαση: I actually bought the zoo
  • Revision: Focus on TOEFL Module 12 Revision Test
  • Exam: TOEFL Further practice: Reading – writer intention questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Further practice: Reading – sentence addition questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Listening – sentence addition questions
  • Exam: TOEFL Practice: Listening – multiple answer questions

Follow-up

Students completing the Focus on TOEFL course should feel confident in tackling any advanced course, including our Advanced Power or Focus on CAE course.