I.

Purpose of The Test

II. Types of Questions
III. General Test-taking Strategy

I. THE PURPOSE OF THE TEST

The Test of English for International

Communication (TOEIC) measures
the ability of non-native Englishspeaking examinees to use English in
everyday workplace activities.

Therefore, have students focus on vocabulary related to the

real-life work settings:
Corporate development
Entertainment
Finance & Budgeting
General Business
Housing / Corporate Property
Office
Personnel
Purchasing
Health
Travel

II. Types of Questions for Reading

Comprehension
Make them be aware of the format of this part: Reading
Comprehension
Incomplete
sentences

Text Completion

40 questions

12 questions

Reading
Reading
Comprehension Comprehension
(Single passages) (double passages)
28 questions

20 questions

Maximum scores for reading comprehension = 495 scores

Total

100 questions/
75 minutes

III. General Test-taking Strategy

Tell them how to deal with each part in the Reading Comprehension

In part 5, in order to deal with the incomplete sentences

* Ask them to see if the question deals with grammar or
vocabulary.
* If grammar, tell them to identify functions of the words or
phrases related to other factors in the sentence.
If its vocabulary,
* identify parts of speech.
* figure out the contextual meaning of the target words or phrases.
* pay attention to prefixes or suffixes

For part 6 Text completion, teachers ask

students to
read the instruction to make sure what
they are asked to do.
scan the whole text to see the text types
look at the language (formal informal)
used

in order to find out whether it is

a letter
an announcement
a notice
a memo
an email
Its easier for them to finish the task.

HOW TO WORK ON PART 7?

They are reading documents in forms of single &
double passages.
FOR SINGLE PASSAGES
First skim the questions and put in mind the key words
who/where/what or nouns, adjectives, or phrasal
verbs

Then, read the text and be prudent with the

text type in order to facilitate your reading.
Next, locate the key information in the text
and check if it really matches with the
answer.
After that, be awake with the format of the
questions multiple choices

(Please remember that only one choice is correct

while the other three are distracters.)
Delete the two most unreasonable or illogical
choices
Compare the two most likely options

 By following this techniques, youll

reduce the risk of choosing the wrong
answer out of confusion or psychological
pressure
NOW answer the question.

FOR DOUBLE PASSAGES

The same processes happen.
BUT have your students read both passages to
see the relationship between them.
information needed is spread over the two
passages.

TOEIC READING TECHNIQUES

TOEICREADING TIPS

The TOEIC Reading Tips lesson is designed to

guide the student through some methods of
improving their ability to answer questions
without understanding every word of a reading
passage as well as their test-taking speed.

Read the questions and answers first. Think about

what kind of answer the question needs.
Skim means read the keywords of the reading
passage.
Answer the questions to which you know the answers.
Scan the reading passage for answers to questions to
which you dont know the answers.

How to Skim Reading

When you read, you dont need to read and understand
every word. In fact, to answer questions in
the TOEIC reading sections, you often do not have to
understand all the words. You just have to find the
answers. You dont have to understand the answer .

Skim reading will help you read quickly so that you

have more time to finish the test or to go back and
check your answers. When you skim, you only read
the key words in the sentence. You skip over the small
words which are not necessary in understanding the
content of the lesson.

Skim reading will help you read quickly so that you

have more time to finish the test or to go back and
check your answers. When you skim, you only read the
key words in the sentence. You skip over the small
words which are not necessary in understanding the
content of the lesson.

The key words are usually:

Nouns (the subject of the sentence and direct objects
especially)
Main Verbs
Adverbs (especially adverbs of frequency or time
usually, now, etc.)
Numbers
Wh. Words

The non-key words are usually:

Conjunctions (and, but, or)
Idioms (needless, regardless of, in terms of)
Descriptive adverbs (fortunately, unfortunately)
Prepositions (in, on, out)
If you read only the key words, you should be able to
answer the questions and read much more quickly and
you will have the same chance of answering the
questions correctly as if you had read every word.

 From Ms. Ngo Thi Bach Loan M.A in

TESOL