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Reading Comprehension of Toefl: BY Tyas Oktaviana M.PD

This document provides guidance on reading comprehension for the TOEFL exam. It discusses that the reading section will contain 3-5 passages and 50-60 questions to be completed in 55 minutes. Test takers should look for main ideas, details, inferences, essential information, sentence insertion, vocabulary, rhetorical purpose, and overall ideas. The document recommends strategies like reading the first and last sentences of passages to establish the topic and main idea, skimming for key concepts, and using keywords from questions to find answers in the passages. It also discusses how to identify main ideas, stated and unstated details, vocabulary in context, and references.

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Reading Comprehension of Toefl: BY Tyas Oktaviana M.PD

This document provides guidance on reading comprehension for the TOEFL exam. It discusses that the reading section will contain 3-5 passages and 50-60 questions to be completed in 55 minutes. Test takers should look for main ideas, details, inferences, essential information, sentence insertion, vocabulary, rhetorical purpose, and overall ideas. The document recommends strategies like reading the first and last sentences of passages to establish the topic and main idea, skimming for key concepts, and using keywords from questions to find answers in the passages. It also discusses how to identify main ideas, stated and unstated details, vocabulary in context, and references.

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READING COMPREHENSION OF TOEFL

BY
T YA S O K T AV I A N A M . P D
READING COMPREHENSION TOEFL
 There are about 50-60 questions (55 minutes)
 This reading will cosist of 3-5 passages
 Main Ideas, Details, Inferences, Essential
Information, Sentence Insertion, Vocabulary,
Rhetorical Purpose and Overall Ideas.
READING STRATEGY ON TOEFL
 Read the first and last sentences of the passage
to establish the topic and main idea
 Skim the passage for the key concepts and
vocabulary
 Read the questions following the passage to find
out what kinds of information you are looking
for .(Do not read the options)
 Answer the question,Use key words or phrases
in the question to scan the passage for the
correct answer.
BUILDING GOOD READING SKILLS :
 Skimming means reading quickly for general
meaning .It is commonly used to find out about
the topic, the main idea and general
organizationof the texts.
 Scanning means knowing what information you
need to find before you read.It is commonly
used for to look for a fact or a detail or particular
vocabulary word.
MAIN IDEAS
IT IS RELATIVELY EASY TO FIND THE MAIN IDEAS BY STUDYING TOPIC
SENTENCES, WHICH ARE PROBABLY FOUND AT BEGINNING OF EACH
PARAGRAPH.

 For the examples of questions are :


1. What is the main topic of the passage?
2. What does the passage mainly discuss?
3. What is the subject of the passage?
4. What is the primary topic of the passage?
5. What is the main theme in the passage
6. Which of the following would be the best title?
7. What is the author’s main point?
HOW TO IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEA?

1. Do not read the whole texts


2. Pay Attention to the first and
last sentence
3. Find Keywords
HOW TO RESPOND
To define....
To relate....
To discuss.....
To propose.....
To illustrate.....
To support the idea that...
To distinguish between .... And ....
To compare ... And ...
THE DIFFERENCES INFORMATION IN THE TEXTS :
General (Main Idea is general)
Spesific ( Supporting ideas are spesific ones)

For the examples : Which word is the most general? Vegetables or


Tomato?
VOCABULARY
1. The word Vividly in line 6 is closest in meaning to...
a. In a cultured way
b. In a correct way
c. In a brief way
d. In a life like way

2. The word terrain is closest in meaning to....


a. Land
b. Population
c. Minerals
d. Prosperity

3. The word dominance over in line 5,...


a. Authority over b. Rejection of c. Dispute over d.understanding of
DETAIL
Stated Detail Questions , there are :
 According to the passage...
 The passage states that ....
 What does the author say about...
 It is indicated that...
 It is stated ....
 All of the following are mentioned except...
 Which of the following is not supported by....
UNSTATED DETAILS
 Which of the following is not stated?
 Which of the following is not mentioned?
 Which of the following is not disussed?
 All of the following are true Except.....
REFERENCE
In reference question ,you are asked what the highlighted word refer to, they are :
 1. Subject pronoun: it, they
 2. Object pronoun: it, them
 3. Demonstrative pronoun : these, those, this ,that.
 4. Possesive adjectives : its, their

For the example : the word ‘they’refers to...


a.Potato b.vegetables c.Hat d.Book
THANK
YOU

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