F2F Class Notes (Tony) [W]

Practice how to use Question Words, but not in a question.

Examples:

What is like to do on weekends is hang out with my friends.

Who I talk to, is none of your business.

How she came here, we will never know.

Where they came up the mountain is the place that she lost her bag.

Vocabulary

If I didn’t go there come here I wouldn’t have time for class.

Squeeze – to grab or hold something very hard

eg: The mom said to her daughter, squeeze my hand so you don’t get lost.

struggle – something you have to fight against

eg: Love is always a struggle.

POV – point of view, from the perspective of the character.

eg:

HSK – Chinese test for foreigners in China.

eg: I just got HSK 4 certified.

The TOEFL and IELTS both are exams to certify our English proficiency. But they have many different characteristics. The TOEFL is more academic ,using formal expression. And IELTS tests more life-like content.
Seeing from the angle of Locations quantity, The TOEFL is bigger than IELTS . but there are more students around me to take The IELTS exam. I don’t know why. Maybe they think The IELTS is easier or more useful in life. Perhaps they want to go to European schools, I think The TOEFL is more useful in the U.S.
Their also grade differently. There are four parts writing ,reading, listening and speaking in two tests, but TOEFL’s grade is the sum of four parts and IELTS’s grade is average score of four parts. If I choose one ,I will choose IELTS ,because it is more useful in life and I maybe go abroad to graduate school in the future. I heard that IELTS’s reading is from foreign magazines or newspaper ,it’s really long and have many vocabularies ,I think I lack most is vocabulary.

The TOEFL and IELTS are both exams to certify your English proficiency. But they are very different exams. The TOEFL is more academic ,using formal expressions. And IELTS tests more life-like content.
From the perspective of Locations quantity, The TOEFL is bigger than IELTS . but there are more students around me taking The IELTS exam and I don’t know why. Maybe they think The IELTS is easier or more useful in life. Perhaps they want to go to European schools, I think The TOEFL is a requirement of many U.S schools or companies.
They’re also graded differently. There are four parts: writing, reading, listening and speaking in two tests, but TOEFL’s grade is the sum of four parts and IELTS’s grade is the average score of four parts. If I choose to take one, I may choose IELTS, because it is more useful in life and I may go abroad to graduate school in the future. I heard that the IELTS reading is from foreign magazines or newspapers, it’s really long and it has many vocabulary words, I think what I lack most is vocabulary.

Toefl: The quantity of TOEFL locations is far more than IELTS testing locations.

IELTS: There are way more TOEFL testing places than IELTS places.

Grammar

They will grade the tests.

maybe I will go(V), maybe I will be(V) late(adj), Maybe I will go abroad.

I may go, I may be(v) late(adj), I may go abroad.

They are graded by the professor.

It is eaten by the birds.