Questions

The questions you answered in class today:

WHEN did you last feel frightened?

HOW MUCH money do you have on you now?HOW MANY hours did you sleep for last night?

HOW did you come to school today?

HOW did you feel on your first day at this university?

WHAT was the name of your first pet?

WHO is your hero?

WHY did you choose to wear those shoes today?

TOEFL Listening

Some extra listening practice for you via youtube:

TOEFL : Word Endings

NOUNS (Things)
- membership, kindness, reality / realism, movement, humanity / humanism, election, breakage, intelligence, alcoholism, permanence, mileage, confusion, leadership, suddenness, improvement, equality

NOUNS (People)
- teacher, typist, beautician, idealist, inventor, clinician, speialist, rancher, perfectionist, programmer, electrician, builder, naturalist, advisor, mathematician

ADJECTIVES
- heartless, natural, athletic, mysterious, helpful / helpless, impressive, intelligent, comfortable, courageous, useful / useless. enthusiastic, motionless, traditional, changeable, permanent, attractive

VERBS
- darken, finalize, justify, separate, shorten, intensify, invetigate, industrialize, differentiate, intentify, lighten, glamourize, personify, sweeten, liberalize, demonstrate

A good place to check the meaning of any of these words is the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, which is online and free. It had good definitions, examples, and a guide to pronunciation.

TOEFL

If you go to this website and scroll down to the bottom of the page, you can download some pdfs that might help you with your TOEFL preparation. The sample writing responses might be particularly useful.

Essay Writing : Feedback

I've received a nice essay on whether it's better for children to grow up in a city or the countryside, so I've started a writing project on a separate blog and I'll start it off with a few lessons related to the essay.

Click here to go to the new blog.

Writing Task : Essay

Write an essay on one of the following topics and then either submit it to me on paper or, if possible, via this website:

1. It is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to develop your essay.

2. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Universities should give the same amount of money to their students’ sports activities as they give to their university libraries. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

3. How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.

4. In general, people are living longer now. Discuss the causes of this phenomenon. Use specific reasons and details to develop your essay.

5. Some people prefer to work for a large company. Others prefer to work for a small company. Which would you prefer? Use specific reasons and details to support your choice.