Mastering Skills for the TOEFL iBT-Advanced [BOOK (TRANSCRIPTS) + AUDIO]
These CDs (10 discs) accompany the Mastering Skills for the TOEFL iBT Student Book. The recordings include over 120 sample conversations and lectures, as well as over 40 sample responses for speaking tasks. CDs 1 to 6 cover the exercises and review tasks from the listening section; CDs 7 and 8 include the recordings and sample responses from the integrated speaking section; CD 9 contains recordings necessary for the integrated writing section; and CD 10 contains...
The course is specially designed for students at upper intermediate level. The book consists of five modules and provides systematic preparation in all four language skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing - required at this level.
This book has been developed to introduce a wide variety of speaking topics to students. Each unit also presents a number of activities to scaffold speaking tasks for lower-level or less secure speakers. However, it is not mandatory for...
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Osgood on Speaking: How to Think on Your Feet Without Falling on Your Face
Taking the fear out of public speaking is the aim of this breezy book Osgood does have numerous suggestions to render the ordeal relatively painless. His suggestions are eminently practical: writing your notes beforehand, using wit instead of jokes, going to the bathroom before you get to the podium. He believes that reading written speeches is uniformly boring, that having one drink (but only one) will help you relax during your speech and that, if possible, you should test the acoustics of the room in which you are to speak.