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TOEFL iBT Preparation: Academic English Skills, Strategy, and Timed Practice

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A practical TOEFL iBT course for university-bound learners who need stronger reading, listening, speaking, and writing performance. It combines diagnostics, skill-building, worked examples, timed drills, and progress tracking based on real score goals.
TeachingTOEFLBachelor’s year 1Bachelor’s year 2Bachelor’s year 3Bachelor’s year 4$1.31
Rating: 40/100

This course prepares non-native English speakers for the TOEFL iBT by teaching the academic English skills the exam actually measures. Students begin with diagnostic assessments in reading, listening, speaking, and writing, then build a personal study plan based on target scores and university requirements.

The program covers the full test format and scoring system, then develops each section in detail through concept lessons, guided practice, independent tasks, and timed work. The emphasis is not only on test strategy, but on the underlying abilities needed for university study: understanding dense readings, following lectures, taking useful notes, speaking clearly from sources, and writing accurate, organized academic responses.

  • Reading: main ideas, supporting details, inference, vocabulary in context, reference, sentence simplification, rhetorical purpose, summary tasks, and passage structure across science, history, and humanities topics.
  • Listening: lecture and conversation structure, speaker purpose, attitude, implied meaning, examples, note-taking systems, and recovery strategies when audio is difficult.
  • Speaking: independent and integrated tasks, fast planning, response organization, fluency, pronunciation for intelligibility, grammar control, and accurate use of notes.
  • Writing: paragraph structure, idea development, grammar, cohesion, integrated writing, paraphrasing, summarising source ideas, and academic discussion responses.
  • Test skills: pacing, trap-answer recognition, integrated task thinking, mistake logs, progress tracking, and test-day readiness.

Lessons include original TOEFL-style practice, worked examples with answer explanations, common-error analysis, short drills, cumulative review, and section-specific timed exercises. Students learn how to identify repeated weaknesses, record them in a mistake log, and turn them into focused review tasks.

By the end of the course, students will have a clear score-improvement plan and stronger control of the skills most relevant to TOEFL success: academic reading, lecture comprehension, note-taking, integrated speaking, independent speaking, structured writing, paraphrasing, summarising, vocabulary use, pronunciation clarity, and time management under exam conditions.