The iBT TOEFL® test is an Internet-based test, which replaces the earlier computer-based test known as the TOEFL® CBT. The next generation TOEFL test assesses proficiency in the four language skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important changes in the test are:
Speaking skills are evaluated.
Some tasks involve integrated skills, such as reading-listing-writing.
Knowledge of grammar is not tested separately but is assessed indirectly throughout the test.

GEOS English Academy, SF has designed a revised program specially for the new version of the test. The course provides ample practice in the English skills evaluated by the new test, along with useful strategies and practical ideas for individual, pair and group activities. Reading and listening content includes explanation of new item types, such as questions about pragmatics, paraphrasing, and summarizing information from across a text. Speaking and writing content includes practice in integrated-skills tasks, such as developing a topic, taking notes, and connecting information from two sources.

The TOEFL® iBT Preparation course is designed to help students develop the necessary skills required for the TOEFL® IBT test: speaking, listening, writing, and reading. The course is intensive in nature and requires a lot of work on the students' part. Students not only develop their language skills, but also have to focus on developing language taking strategies and critical thinking skills that will help them prove to evaluators that they have the required skills needed to study in a North American university. This class uses a curriculum based on the latest version of the TOEFL® iBT test.

This course if for any student in Levels 5 or 6 who is interested in preparing for the TOEFL® iBT test. The entrance requirement for this course is a score of 75 or higher on the MEPT. As this is a 12 week full time course, a student should not be enrolled in the class for more than 12 weeks.

COURSE MATERIALS:
Required: Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL® Test: iBT - Second Edition
Suggested: Cambridge’s Cambridge Preparation for the TOEFL® Test – Fourth Edition

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the course, we hope that you will be able to:
1. Develop appropriate advanced level listening comprehension skills, so that you can understand conversations and be able to respond to them.
2. Develop appropriate advanced level reading and writing comprehension skills, so you can understand academic writing and be able to respond to it.
3. Interact with real listening and reading materials that are found in the TOEFL® iBT.
4. Expand vocabulary repertoire so that you can respond intelligently about the material presented on the TOEFL® iBT.
5. Understand and value different cultures; and use this knowledge when interacting with other speakers.
6. Interact with real speaking and writing materials that are found in the TOEFL® iBT.
7. Build confidence when discussing complex and academic topics with other English speakers.
8. Comprehend and express complex feelings and points of view on a topic.

OUR iBT TOEFL PREPARATION CLASS FEATURES:
Creative learning activities.
TOEFL skills and strategies.
Small classes; Maximum of 14 students per class.
Professional, experienced, attentive instructors.
Enrollment every four weeks.
TOEFL resource materials students can use for after school study.