Recent Classes, TOEIC

The students have been busy doing some TESOL classes. The students have been coming into the class to see how to teach English. They usually come in on Wednesdays to teach the students for a couple of hours, but for the last couple of days the students have been going to the university to sit and talk to people interested in teaching English.

The students are going to be sitting a TOEIC exam soon. The TOEIC exam stands for Teaching Of English for International Communication. This exam is a multiple choice exam and only tests reading and listening. It is an important exam in Japan. the maximum score is 990, or 495 for reading and 495 for listening. The exam lasts for two hours. The academic vocabulary for the test is quite high, so some students will feel the strain. This is only a practise exam. I plan to do about eight with the students and they will then sit the real exam when they return to Japan.

For information on the TOEIC test, go to google and type in TOEIC or click Test of English for International Communication.