TOEFL Speaking: Integrated Task Synthesis 2

Question 1

In TOEFL Speaking Task 4 (the academic lecture task), what should your spoken response primarily do?

Accepted Answer

Explain a general concept and how the professor's examples illustrate it

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Compare your personal opinion with the professor's view

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Summarize a conversation between two students

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Read the lecture transcript aloud accurately

Question 2

How long do you have to prepare before speaking in the integrated speaking tasks?

Accepted Answer

20 or 30 seconds depending on the task

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5 seconds for every task

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2 full minutes

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No preparation time is given

Question 3

What is the recommended way to use your preparation time before an integrated speaking response?

Accepted Answer

Jot brief notes organizing key points and their relationship

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Write a full word-for-word script to read

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Memorize the entire reading passage

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Sit silently to calm nerves only

Question 4

When synthesizing a reading and a lecture that disagree, the lecture usually does what?

Accepted Answer

Challenges or casts doubt on the reading's claims

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Repeats the reading word for word

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Ignores the reading entirely

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Always fully agrees with the reading

Question 5

Which delivery feature is scored in integrated speaking responses?

Accepted Answer

Clear pronunciation, pacing, and intonation

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British versus American accent choice

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Speaking as fast as possible

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Using a deep, formal voice

Question 6

A strong integrated response opens most effectively with which kind of sentence?

Accepted Answer

A topic sentence stating the main idea or relationship between sources

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A long personal anecdote

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An apology for nervousness

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A restatement of the question wording verbatim

Question 7

Why is paraphrasing better than copying exact phrases from the reading or lecture?

Accepted Answer

It demonstrates language ability and comprehension that raters reward

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It is required to avoid plagiarism penalties

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It makes the response longer artificially

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Exact phrases are forbidden by the rules