TOEIC Listening & Reading

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Free TOEIC Listening & Reading study notes for Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.

Grammar: Sentence Structure (Part 5)

  • Word Forms: Noun, Verb, Adjective or Adverb

  • Verb Tense and Aspect

  • Subject-Verb Agreement

  • Active and Passive Voice

  • Pronouns and Determiners

  • Prepositions of Time, Place and Purpose

  • Conjunctions vs Prepositions

  • Relative Clauses and Reduced Clauses

Grammar: Forms and Patterns (Part 5)

  • Gerunds and Infinitives

  • Participles and Participial Adjectives

  • Comparatives and Superlatives

  • Conditionals and the Subjunctive

  • Countable and Uncountable Nouns and Quantifiers

  • Word Order and Inversion

Business Vocabulary in Context

  • Office and Correspondence Vocabulary

  • Personnel and Hiring Vocabulary

  • Marketing, Sales and Customer Service Vocabulary

  • Finance, Purchasing and Invoicing Vocabulary

  • Travel, Events and Hospitality Vocabulary

  • Manufacturing, Shipping and Logistics Vocabulary

  • Technology and IT Support Vocabulary

  • Health, Housing and Property Vocabulary

  • Dining and Entertainment Vocabulary

  • Business Collocations and Phrasal Verbs

  • Commonly Confused Word Pairs

Part 6 Skills: Text Completion

  • Connecting Words and Transitions

  • Sentence Insertion: Choosing the Sentence That Fits

  • Pronoun and Article Reference Across Sentences

  • Choosing Verb Tense from Document Context

  • Tone and Register in Business Correspondence

Part 7 Reading Strategies

  • Skimming for Purpose and Main Idea

  • Scanning for Details: Names, Dates and Numbers

  • Paraphrase Recognition: Matching Question to Text

  • NOT and TRUE Questions: Process of Elimination

  • Inference: What Is Suggested or Implied

  • Vocabulary in Context

  • Sentence Position: Where Does It Belong?

  • Text-Message Chains and Online Chats: Writer's Intent

  • Cross-Referencing Double and Triple Passages

Reading Business Documents

  • Emails and Memos: Headers, Purpose and Requests

  • Advertisements and Notices: Offers, Conditions and Fine Print

  • Articles and Press Releases

  • Forms, Invoices, Schedules and Receipts

  • Letters: Applications, Complaints and Confirmations

Listening Skills

  • Photograph Descriptions: Present Continuous vs Passive

  • Question-Response Patterns: WH-Questions and Indirect Answers

  • Similar-Sounding Words and Homophone Traps

  • Paraphrasing Spoken Language

  • Implied Meaning and Speaker Intent

  • Numbers, Times, Prices and Schedules

  • Reading Charts and Schedules with Conversations

Test Strategy and Pacing

  • Time Budgeting: 10-10-55 Across Parts 5-7

  • Elimination and Guessing: Never Leave Blanks

  • Question-Driven Reading: Questions First

  • Trap Answers: Word-Match Distractors and Overstatements

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