Step Up to the TOEFL(R) iBT for Students at the Basic Level (with Audio CD): A Michigan Guide [Mixed media product]

Step Up to the TOEFL® iBTis a series of skills-based textbooks that helps low-intermediate and intermediate students prepare to take astep uptoward success on the TOEFL®. These are not a test-preparation books: instead, the books teach some of the fundamentalvocabulary, grammar, and pronunciationskills necessary for the test.

Although the TOEFL® does not directly score vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation, weaknesses in these areas will severely impair students’ performance on all areas of the test. Therefore, every point covered inStep Up to the TOEFL® iBTwill benefit test-takers on one or more sections of the test.

Each of the eight units addresses one rhetorical function and includes:

•         Learning Targetsand their relevance to the four sections of the test

•         Getting Startedquestions to activate prior knowledge

•          twoVocabulary You Needtopics that introduce a range of key words used to

accomplish the unit function

•          aVocabulary Skillto build learner autonomy in vocabulary acquisition

•          twoGrammar You Can Usetopics that strengthen students’ receptive and

productive language

•          samples of (near) test-level use of the grammar fromThe Michigan Guide to

English for Academic Success and Better TOEFL® Test ScoresandA Michigan Guide: Step Up to the TOEFL® iBT for Intermediate Students