hi my name is Rebecca and in today's
lesson I'm going to give you some basic
information about the TOEIC exam so
let's look at some of the questions i've
written on the board and that way you'll
have some basic information about this
exam so first of all what is the TOEIC
the toi stands for Test of English for
international communication that means
that really the toik is an exam that
measures business English your knowledge
of business English or English used in
the workplace it's a very popular
English proficiency exam it's taken by
about 5 million people every year and
maybe 10,000 companies or so use this
the results of this exam to help them
decide whether to give people a job so
very often they request that students or
rather job applicants play put the
results of their exam on their resume so
that they can judge what their level of
English is okay and that will also help
you to understand some of the answers to
the other questions that we have so what
does the toy exam measure the toy
measures your ability to read write
speak and understand English as it's
used in the workplace so it's basically
testing your knowledge of quite basic
and fundamental business English alright
it's not general English it's not
academic English as is tested on the
TOEFL for example it's really about
general and business English or English
used in the workplace why do people take
it well as I mentioned before people
take the TOEIC exam for several reasons
they take it first of all to get a job
because many employers do request the
results of the TOEIC exam from job
applicants many people also take this
exam in order to get a promotion for
example and some others take it to get a
V
so for example I believe now in the UK
that spouses of people who have applied
may submit their TOEIC scores as a way
to get a visa okay where is it popular
well originally the TOI was most popular
in Japan and Korea now the popularity of
the toik has really spread to other
places around the world including India
where it has taken off quite well as
well as in North America in South
America really more in South America and
also parts of Europe so in most places
today you can take this exam
now how many kinds are there well when
we talk about the toik exam originally
the toik exam was a relatively short
two-hour exam and it tested only
listening and reading skills all right
so it was quite different from exams
like the IELTS or exams like the TOEFL
which tested all four skills so when it
started in the 70s and until quite
recently it only was a test of listening
and reading however since then many jobs
many employers said that that's not
really enough it's not enough to know
how about only listening and reading
skills they also wanted to know about
speaking and writing skills so ETS the
organization that created this exam
created a second version a second
section of this exam which is a separate
exam of speaking and writing skills so
today there are two exams that are
considered part of the TOI one is the
original listening and reading exam and
the second one is the speaking and
writing exam which is relatively newer
and they are separate exams they are not
taken at one time they are taken
separately then sometimes even on
separate days all right when I come back
in a moment
I'm going to tell you a little bit more
about each of those exams okay
so now let's look at the 2d
for exams that are part of the toy
alright the first as I mentioned is the
listening and reading exam and the
listening is about 45 minutes long
there are approximately a hundred
questions or so it varies depending on
which exam you're doing and the accents
might be British American Australian
okay Canadian it's a mix of accents that
you listen to and the tasks start off
easy and they get a little bit harder as
you go along the reading section of the
exam is about 75 minutes long and also
you have about a hundred questions but
what you have is short reading sections
or texts or it could be an advertisement
or a memo or an email or something like
that and after each one there are
approximately four or five questions not
usually more than that so it's not like
you have a lot of questions about a long
text you haven't many many short texts
and with a few questions after that so
that's the toy listening and reading
exam it's a paper and pencil exam it's
not an internet-based exam the TOEIC
speaking and writing exam is an
internet-based exam you do it on the
internet and the speaking section of
that lasts for about 20 minutes
you don't meet an actual examiner you
are given question prompts and you have
to wear a headphone and microphone and
you'll record your answer and that
answer is then reviewed and evaluated by
toy examiner's ok and then you're given
a score so you have 20 minutes and you
have about 11 different tasks or
questions that you are given you are
graded on your pronunciation your
grammar your vocabulary and also the
content of your answer
that means did your answer give the
spawns that was required did you talk
about what they asked or did you talk
about something else altogether did you
understand the question that's what they
really want to know all right so that's
the speaking part of the exam and after
that is the writing part of the exam
which lasts for about one hour you have
a number of different tasks there you
have about seven tasks that you must do
in half an hour and then the last half
an hour you have one more task which is
an essay so you have to write an essay
of about 300 words in half an hour
so altogether the writing section of the
exam of the toik exam is 60 minutes and
you're also graded on things like how
thorough your answer is how correctly
you write your grammar your vocabulary
and of course the contents of what you
write so here I've given you some of the
basics of the toik exam for more
information for a complete free guide
actually to the TOEIC exam please visit
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much for watching and I wish you all the
best with your exam bye for now