TOEFL Plus Course

Class 1

• Personal Introductions
• Course Introduction
• Online Learning System, Recommended Dictionaries, Anki
• Parts of Speech: Introduction to Nouns and Their Roles, Verb Types (Linking Vs Action) and 12 Tenses, Adjective and Adverb
• Placement and Comparatives, Conjunction Types, etc.
• Suffixes (Endings for n, v, adj, adv)

Class 2

• Present and Past (Cambridge)
• Irregular Past Tenses and Past Participles
• Suffixes (cont.) & Prefixes
• Roots and Families
• Prepositions Unit 121 & 122 (Cambridge)

Class 3

• Present Perfect and Past (Cambridge)
• Differences between Verb Tenses
• Prepositions Unit 123 ~ 125 (Cambridge)

Class 4

• Differences Between Verb Tenses (cont.)
• Types of Verbs: 12 Tenses, Action vs Linking, Transitive vs Intransitive, Continuous vs Noncontinuous (Stative), Active vs Passive, Helping/Auxilliary (Functional vs Modal), Verbals (Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles)
• Prepositions Unit 126 & 127 (Cambridge)

Class 5

• Modals (Cambridge)
• Future (Cambridge)
• Let / Make / Have / Get
• Prepositions Unit 128 (Cambridge)

Class 6

• Conditional
• If and Wish (Cambridge)
• Prepositions Unit 129 (Cambridge)

Class 7

• Passive (Cambridge)
• Negative Questions
• Prepositions Unit 130 & 131 (Cambridge)

Class 8

• ing and the Infinitive (Cambridge)
• Verbals (Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles)
• Gerunds and Noun Phrases (in Writing, as Subject, etc)
• Participles in Writing
• Verbs Followed by Gerunds or Infinitives
• Prepositions Unit 132 ~ 134 (Cambridge)

Class 9

• Articles and Nouns (Cambridge)
• Prepositions Unit 135 & 136 (Cambridge)

Class 10

• Questions and Auxiliary Verbs (Cambridge)
• Numbers
• Phrasal Verbs Unit 137 and 138 (Cambridge)

Class 11

• Pronouns and Determiners (Cambridge)
• Pronunciation
• Shapes
• Phrasal Verbs Unit 139 and 140 (Cambridge)

Class 12

• Adjectives and Adverbs (Cambridge)
• Comparatives and Superlatives
• Comparing with than
• Phrasal verbs Unit 141 and 142 (Cambridge)

Class 13

• Adjectives, Adverbs, and Comparing, Level 2
• Comparing with as .. as
• Comparing Figures
• Phrasal Verbs Unit 143 and 144 (Cambridge)

Class 14

• Reported Speech (Cambridge)
• Reporting Verbs
• Phrasal Verbs Unit 145 (Cambridge)

Class 15

• Relative clauses (Cambridge)
• Final Test
• Review Test

Class 16

• Conjunctions and Prepositions (Cambridge)
• Review Test (cont.)
• Connecting Clauses (Types of Conjunctions, Semicolons w/ adv, etc.)
• Punctuation
• Inversion
• Words for time (ago, in, before, after, until, by, while, when, during)
• ie or ei

Class 17

• Introduction to TOEFL, parts and timing, scoring system, typing
• Reading skills 1 – Understand vocabulary from context
• Reading skills 2 – Recognize referents
• Speaking practice (if time allows)

Class 18

• Reported Speech
• Speaking questions 1
• Speaking questions 2

Class 19

• Listening skills 1 – Main idea
• Listening skills 2 – Understand the details
• Introduction to independent writing
• Writing models for independent writing

Class 20

• Reading skills 3 – Simplify meanings of sentences
• Speaking question 1 practice
• Review and practice independent writing

Class 21

• Reading skills 4 – Insert sentences into the passage
• Speaking question 1, 2 review
• Speaking questions 3

Class 22

• Reading skills 1 to 4 review exercises
• Speaking question 3 practice
• Introduction to integrated writing
• Writing models for integrated (Homeschooling)

Class 23

• Listening skills 3 – Understand the function
• Listening skills 4 – Understand the speaker's stance
• Speaking practice (if time allows)

Class 24

• Listening skills 5 – Understand the organization
• Listening skills 6 – Understand relationships
• Review and practice integrated writing
• Speaking practice (if time allows)

Class 25

• Reading skills 5 – Find Factual Information
• Reading skills 6 – Understand negative facts
• Speaking question 4

Class 26

• Reading skills 7 – Making Inferences from stated facts
• Reading skills 8 – Infer rhetorical purpose
• Speaking question 4 (Cont.)

Class 27

• Review independent writing
• Review speaking question 1 - 4

Class 28

• Review integrated writing
• Review speaking question 1 - 4

Class 29

• Reading skills 9 – Select summary information
• Reading skills 10 – Complete schematic tables

Class 30

• Review all listening and reading skills

Class 31

• Review TOEFL, parts and timing, scoring system, typing
• Listening - Taking notes
• Speaking question 1
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 1

Class 32

• Reading - Speed reading, main ideas (the sea and the lighthouse)
• Speaking question 2
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 2

Class 33

• Reading - Speed reading, main ideas (Hollywood, 80 cents)
• Speaking question 2 (cont.)
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 3

Class 34

• Paraphrasing
• Speaking question 3
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 4

Class 35

• Paraphrasing (cont.)
• Speaking question 3 (cont.)
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 5

Class 36

• Paraphrasing (cont.)
• Speaking question 4
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 6

Class 37

• Summarizing
• Speaking question 4 (cont.)
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 7

Class 38

• Summarizing (cont.)
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 8

Class 39

• Synthesizing
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 9

Class 40

• Synthesizing (cont.)
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 10

Class 41

• Practice independent writing
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 11

Class 42

• Practice independent writing (cont.)
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 12

Class 43

• Practice integrated writing
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 13&14

Class 44

• Practice integrated writing (cont.)
• Review speaking questions 1 - 4
• Roots, Prefixes or Suffixes Exercise 15&16