Each unit in the three levels of the series targets the following areas of study:
Vocabulary: Each theme-based unit introduces words, phrases, and idioms frequently encountered on the test. The words and phrases chosen are useful in both written and spoken English. Words are recycled throughout the book. An expanded vocabulary enables students to understand a wide variety of material in English.
Grammar: Every unit provides information and practice activities for level-appropriate grammatical structures commonly seen on the TOEIC®. The grammar points featured in this series provide students with a solid foundation for developing English skills.
Listening: Helpful tips and strategies for listening questions with related practice activities are presented in each unit. Knowing how to listen is sometimes harder than the actual language students are hearing. These strategies sections help students build confidence in their listening skills.
Reading: Useful tips and strategies for approaching reading questions are provided in all three levels. Students will gain valuable knowledge which will help them tackle all three reading sections of the test.
7-Part Mini-Test: Each unit concludes with TOEIC® style practice questions for each of the seven sections of the TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test. This section provides extensive exposure to TOEIC® style questions.
Answer keys for all practice activities are located at the back of the book.
In addition, a full-length practice test at the end of each level provides students with the opportunity to practice taking the test under test conditions, while applying the knowledge they have gained by working through each book.
Building TOEIC® Skills:
Vocabulary themes include office, travel, shopping, banking, college, housing, transportation, factory, work, entertainment, buildings, eating out
Grammar Topics include subject-verb agreement, Y/N questions, articles, phrasal verbs, countable and uncountable nouns, quantifiers, gerunds and infinitives, simple present and present progressive, simple past, modal verbs, adjectives and adverbs, comparatives, zero and first conditionals, present perfect
Listening Strategies include homophones, keywords, negatives words, partially true statements, words with multiple meanings, modals, commonly confused words, minimal pairs, words with similar meanings, sequence, attitudes
Reading Strategies include main ideas, skimming and scanning, inference, transitions, misused words, synonyms, context, antonyms, questions with not, wrong word form, cause and effect, paraphrasing
Developing TOEIC® Skills:
Vocabulary themes include technology, job skills, management, the legal world, media, real estate, business travel, conferences, weather reports, meetings, manufacturing
Grammar Topics include future forms, imperatives, dynamic and stative verbs, conjunctions, transitive/intransitive verbs, 2nd conditional, prepositions, prefixes, present perfect tense, modal verbs
Listening Strategies include embedded questions, how to analyze picture descriptions, different English accents, recognizing distractors, word stress, questions types, incorrect paraphrasing, similar sounding words, order of information, relationships between ideas
Reading Strategies include types of passages, pronouns, wh-questions, detail/purpose/inference questions, skimming, scanning, phrasal verbs, transitional words and phrases, word form, increasing reading speed, defining words and expressions
Mastering TOEIC® Skills:
Vocabulary themes include advertising, customer service, business trends, imports/exports, market research, sales, work routines, job responsibilities, the stock market, international business
Grammar Topics include voice, past perfect, 3rd conditional, gerunds, infinitives, comparisons, future perfect, adverb clauses of time, relative clauses, reported speech, phrasal verbs
Listening Strategies include facts and assumptions in photo descriptions, listening traps, time and location, negative expressions, activities and occupations, numbers and quantities, intention, interpreting graphics
Reading Strategies include synonyms, tone, transitions, suffixes and prefixes, charts and graphics, selecting the correct sentence, collocations, identifying the correct location for sentences, fixes expressions
All three books finish with a full length TOEIC® style practice test.
