tailieunhanh - The complete guide to the toefl test part 109

On a given day, ETS will give a different version of each TOEFL test in each of the twenty-four time zones of the world. This prevents a person who takes the test in one time zone from giving information about the test to people in other time zones. | Communicative Activities for Writing Activity 1 News Report Individual Activity First listen to a news broadcast on television or radio. If possible record it. Take notes on a news story that interests you. Then try to find information on the same story in an English-language newspaper or magazine or on a news Web site such as the sites for National Public Radio The New York Times USA Today CNN or the BBC . Take notes on the information that you read. Now use your notes to write your own news report in English. Note how the information that you listened to differs from the information that you read. Mention these differences in the report that you write. After all the students have written news reports you can put them together to create a newspaper. Activity 2 Advice Column Individual and Class Activity First find an advice column in a newspaper or online. An advice column is a section of a newspaper or a Web site in which readers write letters about their personal problems and the columnist gives his or her advice. The Dear Abby column is one famous example of an American advice column but there are many others. After you are familiar with the format of advice columns write a letter request- . ing advice. You can ask for advice to deal with a personal problem an academic P problem or you can make up a problem Your instructor coordinator will distrib- ute these requests so that each student has one and then students will respond to l the requests giving suggestions on how to deal with the problems. Afterwards each student will read aloud the letter requesting advice and the advice that he or she gave. The class can vote on who provided the best advice. Activity 3 The Best of Everything Small- Group Activity Many newspapers publish Best of lists. These list the best shops restaurants and so on for a community. You may first want to take a look at one or more of these lists. Type Best of and the name of a city into your browser Best of Boston Best of Toronto etc. .