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wallac3 dijo:SAY: You say SOMETHING to someone.
TELL: You tell SOMEONE something.
Please say to me the mistakes I make....
Please tell me about my mistakes...
Is that right?
wallac3 dijo:SAY: You say SOMETHING to someone.
TELL: You tell SOMEONE something.
Ok..listen up people from Cali, Colombia, i discovered a conversation club that takes place near EL parque del perro here in cali, one day a week, we talk about anything,... no english teaching, no charge 4 it,,its just real english practice... the best part is that theres a native speaker from Scotland that can help you improve your english,,, so if anyone is interested about it,,just lemme know...and send me a private message,,, i really enjoy this and im pretty sure u will as well.....
Hey people! I'm new in this forum but I love English and I'm glad to join you tonight, sorry for not reading all the thread but you already have 23 pages and that's a lot... so what are you talking about? besides the meetings in Cali? I'm from Bogota btw.
thanks for the answer, could you please help me with a thread I post on the introduction forum? I mean, solving the problem I talk about there... thank once again
hello everyone!!
The conversation group that was working in Cali finished the past december and I´m looking for people to star again.... Anyone intrested?
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I don't know the reason why this thread died :S :S It's actually a good idea to practice english, at least for writing and reading
I'm starting to prepare myself to do the TOEFL exam (like...in a month from today) and i would like to get some information about the exam, someone has done this exam?
The question should be: Has someone presented/taken (using "do" as someone would in spanish is not correct) this exam?
Actually, I took the test 3 weeks ago and I did very well (111 / 120). 10 years ago I had taken the test, but that time it was different because it was the cBT(computer-based) as opposed to the iBT(internet-based) that is the one in use right now. Back then I got a score of 105 / 120.
As for the test, you can look for a book on the internet named "Longman Preparation Course for the Toefl Test, Next Generation iBT". There you can find guidelines and practice exercises and this book comes with a CD loaded with preparation tests.
An advice that I can give you for the speaking part is that if maybe you are not so fluent or your pronunciation isn't that good try to keep everything organized by having a structure.
For example, you hear a lecture from a class talking about dinosaurs and their different types (I'm just making up something). Then, you are asked to give a summary of the lecture, so you could do something like this:
In this listening passage the main topic is "MAIN TOPIC".
First, it is mentioned that "FIRST IDEA OR FIRST TYPE"
Then, the lecturer mentions "SECOND IDEA" ....
And so on.
For that speaking part they usually give you 15-30 seconds to prepare your answer, and sometimes you have to speak for 45 seconds or even 1 minute depending on what you listened to. It is very important to take notes and use the preparation time to organize your ideas based on your script. It doesn´t matter if you use the same script more than once, what they check besides pronunciation or fluency is organization and coherence. By following these tips I had a score of 27 / 30 in the speaking part, so I think this helped me a lot.
As for the book I mentioned it is very useful for the other 3 sections (listening, reading, writing). If you want to practice speaking it would be better if you could find someone with good english level to do practice exercises and taking into account real times. Also, If you can't find someone to help, you could just record yourself and see what you can improve.
Hope all this information helps, and good luck on the test.