Spring 2 2012 Electives: March 19 - April 26
Download an application. All electives are six weeks in length and meet in the O’Keefe Building on campus.
GMAT-GRE Writing
TOEFL Reading
TOEFL Speaking
TOEFL Writing
TOEFL Listening
- Advanced (600-700 Level)
- 6 contact hours
- Time: 2:20-3:15 p.m. Thursdays
- No required text
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Cost: $55 for current LI students
$110 for non-LI students
In this class, you will learn strategies for writing the issue and argument essays on the GMAT and GRE and how readers score essays. Particular emphasis will be placed on how to approach the various types of questions for the argument essay.
iBT TOEFL Preparation: Skills & Practice—Reading
- Intermediate to Advanced (400-700 Level)
- 6 contact hours
- Time: 2:20-3:15 p.m. Mondays
- Required Text: Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL Test, By Deborah Phillips (available at the GT Bookstore)
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Cost: $55 for current LI students
$110 for non-LI students
Improve your reading skills. Practice reading academic passages and answering questions that measure your ability to understand and analyze the meaning of the passages. Practice multiple-choice question types to measure your ability to understand main ideas, details, inferences, discourse, and vocabulary. Practice new question types in which you demonstrate what you have learned or read by completing a table or a narrative summary, or by choosing a correct paraphrase of a reading.
iBT TOEFL Preparation: Skills & Practice—Speaking
- Intermediate to Advanced (400-700 Level)
- 6 contact hours
- Time: 2:20-3:15 p.m. Tuesdays
- Required Text: Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL Test, By Deborah Phillips(available at the GT Bookstore)
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Cost: $55 for current LI students
$110 for non-LI students
Work on improving your speaking skills. Practice three kinds of speaking tasks. In the first task, you are asked to state explain and support your answer to a question using personal knowledge and experience. In the second task, you are asked to read a short passage and listen to a short talk, then answer a question combining information from the talk and reading passage. In the third task, you listen to a short lecture or conversation, and are asked to summarize key ideas from the talks. Work on your ability to use clear, smooth, sustained speech for overall intelligibility and language use that demonstrates control of grammar and word choice, and organization.
iBT TOEFL Preparation: Skills & Practice—Writing
- Intermediate to Advanced (400-700 Level)
- 6 contact hours
- Time: 2:20-3:15 p.m. Wednesdays
- Required Text: Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL Test, By Deborah Phillips(available at the GT Bookstore)
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Cost: $55 for current LI students
$110 for non-LI students
Work on improving your writing skills by learning about the two kinds of writing required on the iBT TOEFL. In the first writing task, you are asked to respond to a question using personal knowledge and experience. In the second task, you are asked to read an academic passage and listen to a lecture. Then, you answer a question discussing the key points in the lecture and explain how they relate to the information in the reading passage. Outside of class, you may work on writing essays, which the instructor will score.
iBT TOEFL Preparation: Skills & Practice—Listening
- Intermediate to Advanced (400-700 Level)
- 6 contact hours
- Time: 2:20-3:15 p.m. Thursdays
- Required Text: Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL Test, By Deborah Phillips(available at the GT Bookstore)
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Cost: $55 for current LI students
$110 for non-LI students
Work on improving your listening skills. Practice listening to short and long conversations, academic discussions, and academic lectures. Focus on note-taking skills, idiomatic vocabulary use, and grammar structures that are typically found in spoken English. Practice new question types that measure your ability to understand a speaker's attitude or meaning.
