TOEFL Preparation

Small classes and personalized attention helped me ace my TOEFL exam.

Marabella S.

★★★★★

Comprehensive TOEFL Course

• Comprehensive Class: 16 hours of class

• ​Class cost: $480

• Textbook & materials: $75

• 4 hours/week for 4 weeks

• Class at the school (with online option)

Morning TOEFL Schedule

Days: Tuesday & Thursday

Class Time: 9:00 am to 11:00 am

• Session 9: Sept. 1 to Sept. 24

• Session 10: October 1 to Oct. 27

• Session 11: Nov. 3 to Nov. 26

• Session 12: Dec. 1 to Dec. 29

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  Evening TOEFL Schedule

  Days: Tuesday & Thursday

  Class Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

  • Session 9: Sept. 1 to Sept. 24

  • Session 10: October 1 to Oct. 27

  • Session 11: Nov. 3 to Nov. 26

  • Session 12: Dec. 1 to Dec. 29

TOEFL® is a registered trademark of Education Testing Service. English Express is an independent preparation center and its courses are not endorsed or approved by ETS.

Reading Skills

The Reading section measures your ability to comprehend, interpret, and analyze written English through three task types.

• Processing Meaning and Form: Reconstructing missing parts of words in academic paragraphs using vocabulary, grammar, and spelling knowledge.

• Contextual Integration: Using semantic and syntactic clues to fill in word parts and integrating meaning across multiple sentences.

• Interpreting Nonlinear Formats: Understanding information presented in everyday campus formats like emails, posters, schedules, and social media posts.

• Identifying Purpose and Details: Identifying the main purpose of a communication and skimming/scanning for specific practical details like dates and locations.

• Inferential Comprehension: Making inferences based on implied information in both daily life texts and academic passages.

• Understanding Academic Structure: Identifying main ideas, basic context, and important details in short linear texts.

• Linguistic Analysis: Understanding a broad range of academic vocabulary, figurative language, and idiomatic expressions.

• Grammatical Proficiency: Comprehending a range of complex grammatical structures used by academic writers.

• Rhetorical Awareness: Recognizing the rhetorical structure of a text and the relationships between ideas across sentences and paragraphs.

Listening Skills

The Listening section evaluates your ability to follow spoken language, interpret meaning, and respond appropriately in real-world situations.

• Interpreting Social Exchanges: Understanding brief questions or statements to select socially appropriate responses.

• Phonological and Prosodic Recognition: Distinguishing English phonemes and recognizing how intonation and stress patterns convey meaning.

• Pragmatic Inference: Inferring implied meaning, speaker intent, roles, and context in short spoken interactions.

• Comprehending Informal Interactions: Identifying main ideas, context, and key details in casual campus conversations.

• Following Conversational Flow: Tracking the connection between ideas across different speaker turns.

• Predicting Actions: Making simple predictions about the further actions of speakers based on the dialogue.

• Interpreting Purpose-Driven Messages: Understanding the intent of short announcements and identifying specific details like requirements or rules.

• Synthesizing Academic Information: Understanding main and supporting ideas in podcast-style lectures or classroom discussions.

• Recognizing Organization and Attitude: Identifying the organizational features of a talk and recognizing the speaker's attitude or degree of certainty.

Writing Skills

The Writing section measures foundational language skills and the ability to communicate effectively in academic and campus contexts.

• Sentence Construction: Demonstrating knowledge of sentence-level grammar and building grammatically correct responses for short interactions.

• Communicative Goal Achievement: Writing emails that meet specific goals, such as making a recommendation, giving an invitation, or proposing a solution.

• Applying Social Conventions: Using appropriate tone, register, and level of formality based on the intended audience.

• Elaboration and Cohesion: Explaining ideas well with reasons, examples, or details while maintaining a clear and easy-to-follow structure.

• Argumentation and Support: Clearly elaborating an argument for a position in an academic discussion and responding to other students' viewpoints.

• Synthesizing Provided Information: Incorporating information provided in short texts or existing posts into a coherent response.

• Accuracy and Mechanics: Following mechanical conventions, including spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.

• Coherent Expression: Connecting ideas logically using effective linking words and transitional phrases.

Speaking Skills

The Speaking section evaluates your ability to use spoken English effectively through foundational and communicative tasks.

• Sentence Processing: Listening to and processing spoken English of increasing length and complexity.

• Accurate Reproduction: Reproducing spoken input accurately and intelligibly with correct word-level pronunciation.

• Spontaneous Communication: Thinking and speaking spontaneously in simulated academic contexts without preparation time.

• Responsive Elaboration: Answering interview questions with appropriate and coherent elaboration.

• Conversational Pacing: Maintaining a natural speaking pace with appropriate use of rhythm, intonation, and pauses.

• Handling General and Academic Topics: Speaking clearly about personal experiences, plans, and preferences, as well as abstract or speculative issues.

• Syntactic and Lexical Variety: Using a range of vocabulary and grammatical structures effectively to convey precise meanings.