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About the TOEFL Speaking Today's Speaking Lesson: Question 5
  1st: Practice the question 4th: Your 60-second speech  
  2nd: The listening 5th: Hear example answers  
  3rd: Your 20-second preparation 6th: How to study this question  

Question 5


Outline


1st: you will hear a 1 to 2 minute conversation between two students
2nd: you will be asked a question about the conversation
3rd: you will be given 20 seconds to prepare your response
4th: you will then have 60 seconds to record your response
5th: the computer will save your response and go to the next question

 
Practice

 

Tough Choice


 

Question: Describe the woman’s problem and the two suggestions the man makes about how she could deal with it. What do you think the woman should do and why?
 
Preparation time: 20 seconds
Response time: 60 seconds

 

Resources

For timing yourself:

Stopwatch

For recording yourself:

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COMMENTS

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Shahi wrote on Sunday August 29, 2010 7:30am
Hi Joseph, I took my TOEFL test recently. Really, the methods u taught for speaking test are awesome. I can able to get a score of 26. Thank you so much. I saw ur lessons only in the last moments of my test. I would have scored much better if I have practised ur method earlier. Anyway thank you so much for ur work. Bye
wrote on Friday August 13, 2010 2:25pm
how can i register in here? i was trying it for several days but i haven't seen a button to sign in.. i joined the notefull talkgroup in vooxopop
DB wrote on Monday August 9, 2010 9:59am
Hi Joseph, Your test taking methods and tips, particularly those dealing with the speaking section, are simply amazing.They helped me a lot and I was able to score 29 in the speaking section!!! :) Thanks a ton!
Denzil wrote on Monday August 9, 2010 2:00am
These videos of yours are all helpful, and a great way of approaching people, including me, who are preparing for the TOEFL.
 
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Stanimira wrote on Sunday August 8, 2010 3:49pm
I am going to take the exam in about two-weeks' time and I am happy I could find this totally comprehensive presentation of the speaking and writing sections, which worry me the most. In my view it has been the best so far and I am planning on using all of your tips:) Thanks a lot!
 
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martha wrote on Wednesday August 4, 2010 1:11am
hi joe, u said that we shd nt bother with paraphresing in Q3.Does it really matter if one paraphreses? again where and where not is paraphresing very important? Tanx 4 all ur help. u r really a rare gem
ADITI DAWAR wrote on Thursday July 29, 2010 3:06pm
Sir, I did the TOEFL on 24th April 2010 and scored 106(R 26, L 28, W 29, S 23)but i need 26 in speaking so giving the test again on 14th Aug.10.I watched your videos on you tube and was able to recognize my mistakes and the ways to improve them. I hope that I'll be able to organize my answers in a better way after learning from your videos. Thank you sir.
Rania wrote on Tuesday July 27, 2010 4:25pm
Hi teacher Joseph, I did the toefl once last May and I got 23 in the speaking section but the required score is 26. I tried rescoring but it didn't change although I think I did away better than the sample responses on ets website. I have been living in the states for 2 years.I started to learn English since I was 3. I will retake the test again on Aug 21st. What is your advice to get 26 in speaking? I watched your posts on youtube for the first 3 questions and I want to join your toefl free class to record my answers but I can't find practice questions for the first 3 questions in the toefl speaking section on this page Thanks for the help all your posts are very useful Waiting for your reply
wrote on Tuesday July 27, 2010 1:47am
Sir can you please rate my essay.Got my exam soon. SHOULD THERE BE A MINIMUM AGE LIMIT FOR ALCOHOL DRINKING?? Drinking alcohol become one of the most serious problems in the recent years especially among the younger age groups,thanks to the media.It has become very necessary to keep a check on this issue and hence i strongly believe that there should be a minimum age limit for alcohol usage. My first reason is that alcohol has disasterous effects on your health.It acts like a slow poison.It attacks the liver and causes a condition called fatty liver which might cause failure of the liver altogether.Besides your liver it has psychological effects.A person who drinks might feel happy and elated when he is drunk but later on ,it leads to depression and hang overs.It is very easy for youngsters to get addicted to it,which might cause considerable harm to their body and mind.I have known a friend whose brother got addicted to drinking,he had many health problems, also he had to be kept in a treatment house for withdrawal of this addiction.Finally they lost him at the young age of 27,a big loss to his family. My second reason is that alcohol drinking affects your career life also to a great extent.Youngsters are supposed to concentrate on building a strong career life but if in place of that they fall prey to alcohols they may not be able to give their best to their academics.This is sure going to hamper their future life.Besides they also start spending a huge amount on alcohol which may even cause financial problems.I had a relative who got used to drinking as a teenager which showed up in his performance in his college life.That was the time when he could have made a real difference to his professional life.But his grades prevented him from getting into a good professional college. So to conclude i would like to say that alcohol is a thing which has done no good to anybody and has caused deleterious effect on young lives specially because they are not mature enough to understand its effects.Hence there should be a minimum age limit of atleast 20 years.
Ashour wrote on Saturday July 24, 2010 6:22pm
I too the iBT test yesterday, and what I want to say is, thank you Joseoh very much. I studies and prepared for the test on youtube. You gave me all that I needed to do well in the actual test. Thank you again.