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.
Gramatika
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.
Slovná zásoba
- 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
- Slovná zásoba: Adjectives of character and mood
- Gramatika: Present Tenses
- Slovná zásoba: Jobs and professions
- Gramatika: Past Tenses
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 01
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 01
- Spelling: Spelling test 01
- Čítanie: A Winter’s Tale
- Počúvanie: Chess
- Čítanie: Buddhism
- Počúvanie: 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
- Slovná zásoba: Parts of the body
- Gramatika: Comparatives and superlatives
- Slovná zásoba: Transport
- Gramatika: Countable and Uncountable nouns
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 02
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 02
- Spelling: Spelling test 02
- Čítanie: Michelangelo
- Počúvanie: The internet
- Čítanie: Oxford
- Počúvanie: 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
- Slovná zásoba: Feeling ill 1
- Gramatika: Present Perfect
- Slovná zásoba: Feeling ill 2
- Gramatika: Present Perfect Continuous
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 03
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 03
- Spelling: Spelling test 03
- Čítanie: Shakespeare’s early life
- Počúvanie: Working in London
- Čítanie: The European Commission Audit
- Počúvanie: 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
- Slovná zásoba: Gradable and non-gradable adjectives
- Gramatika: Going to and Will
- Slovná zásoba: Confusing Words 1
- Gramatika: Future Continuous
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 04
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 04
- Spelling: Spelling test 04
- Čítanie: The Naadam festival in Mongolia
- Počúvanie: Zimbabwe
- Čítanie: Old Goriot
- Počúvanie: 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
- Slovná zásoba: Clothes 1
- Gramatika: So and Such
- Slovná zásoba: Clothes 2
- Gramatika: Too and Enough
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 05
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 05
- Spelling: Spelling test 05
- Čítanie: Aspirin
- Počúvanie: Brand loyalty
- Čítanie: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Počúvanie: 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
- Slovná zásoba: Containers
- Gramatika: Say and Tell
- Slovná zásoba: Household chores
- Gramatika: Ed and Ing adjectives
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 01
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 06
- Spelling: Spelling test 06
- Čítanie: Garlic
- Počúvanie: Innovative advertising techniques
- Čítanie: NAFTA
- Počúvanie: 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
- Slovná zásoba: Shops
- Gramatika: Articles
- Slovná zásoba: Verbs connected with cooking
- Gramatika: Passive
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 02
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 07
- Spelling: Spelling test 07
- Čítanie: Oxford University
- Počúvanie: The origin of crosswords
- Čítanie: Paraguay
- Počúvanie: 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
- Slovná zásoba: Shapes and dimensions
- Gramatika: Gerunds and infinitives
- Slovná zásoba: Confusing words 2
- Gramatika: Conjunctions and connectors
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 03
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 08
- Spelling: Spelling test 08
- Čítanie: Simon Bolivar
- Počúvanie: Gambling addiction
- Čítanie: The Basque language
- Počúvanie: 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
- Slovná zásoba: Things in the bedroom
- Gramatika: Past Perfect
- Slovná zásoba: Things in the kitchen
- Gramatika: Past modals – Must and Should
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 04
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 09
- Spelling: Spelling test 09
- Čítanie: The Black Death
- Počúvanie: Burma
- Čítanie: The life of Aristotle
- Počúvanie: 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
- Slovná zásoba: Things in the living room
- Gramatika: Passive voice
- Slovná zásoba: Parts of the house
- Gramatika: Question tags
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 05
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 10
- Spelling: Spelling test 10
- Čítanie: The Spice Girls
- Počúvanie: Cyber waste
- Čítanie: Albert Einstein
- Počúvanie: 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
- Slovná zásoba: Make and do
- Gramatika: Relative Clauses
- Slovná zásoba: Confusing words 3
- Gramatika: Verb Patterns
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 01
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 11
- Spelling: Spelling test 01
- Čítanie: Architecture in the 1960’s
- Počúvanie: Mars
- Čítanie: Albert Einstein
- Počúvanie: 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
- Slovná zásoba: Animals
- Gramatika: Reported Speech
- Slovná zásoba: Adjectives of character
- Gramatika: Third Conditional
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 02
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 12
- Spelling: Spelling test 02
- Čítanie: Feeling petty
- Počúvanie: 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.