"TOEIC Seminar 2" is designed as an introductory course for students planning to take the TOEIC test. Of the four English-language skills, it puts special emphasis on listening and reading.
Offering TOEIC-style exercises, this course enables students to become familiar with the TOEIC test format. It also aims at improving students' overall English ability by expanding their knowledge of vocabulary and grammar.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
・ familiarize themselves with the TOEIC test format.
・ increase their vocabulary, refine their knowledge of various grammatical structures, and brush up their listening and reading skills.
・ comprehensively improve their English to achieve higher scores on the TOEIC test.
TOEIC, listening skills, reading skills, vocabulary, grammar
Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
By using exercise questions of the TOEIC Listening and Reading Test, students will build a firm base on which to strengthen practical use of English in various situations. Additional tasks will be provided to foster abilities to create persuasive sentences and paragraphs.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Unit 8 "Entertainment" | TOEIC style exercises about "Entertainment" and comparisons |
Class 2 | Unit 9 "Purchasing" | TOEIC style exercises about "Purchasing" and infinitives |
Class 3 | Unit 10 "Corporate Development" | TOEIC style exercises about "Corporate Development" and adverbs |
Class 4 | Unit 11 "Technical Areas" | TOEIC style exercises about "Technical Areas" and relative pronouns |
Class 5 | Unit 12 "Travel" | TOEIC style exercises about "Travel" and compound relatives |
Class 6 | Unit 13 "Housing/Corporate Property" / Unit 14 "Personnel" | TOEIC style exercises about "Housing / Corporate Property," "Personnel," past perfect tense and causative verbs |
Class 7 | Review of the 2nd quarter Quarter Examination | Overall exercises Unit 8-Unit 14 |
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Best Practice for the TOEIC L&R Test -Advanced-, Seibi-do (2023)
Additional readings and homework will be provided to cover the topic of the week.
Students are assessed on practical English skills and on the degree to which they can use them to communicate with others.
In-class Task and Homework 50%
Quarter examination 50%
None
It is recommended that students take this course in sequence with TOEIC Seminar 1.