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How to Structure Your TOEFL Essay
Get full points on the organization section of your TOEFL essay by following the steps in this lesson.
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indar
I think it’s very useful for me. Now, I have been learning english, specially in conversation program. May you send it (video about english conversation) to my email?
RebeccaESL
Hi Indar. I’m glad you found the video useful. We’ll be uploading more video English lessons soon. Please let your friends know about our site.
hii…rebeca i have a lot of questions to ask u , actually when we need to report something which happend in the past most of the people are making mistakes ..for instance he says “He is working in a factory”.when I report it to someone I think I must say he told me he was working in a factory but most of the people saying he told he is working in a factory.I didn’t get a good clarification from anyone yet,ther are saying written english and spoken english are entirley different and grammer is only using for writing not speaking.I am looking forward to getting a reply soon
seban
Trinath
Thanks for the useful video. I wish i could do it now.
behrokh
hi rebecca, I found you in the best time. I have a toefl exam on may30th.08, I was wondering do you have any cd which you explained all the way to get high mark in the toefl exam in reading and listening and speakind … parts. I really need a teacher like you to explain everything for me, please let me know by mailing me and give me the price and tell me how can I get your cd if you have something similar to what I want. I forgot to tell you I live in Canada in toronto,on. One more thing is my main problem is in the reading and the listening part please help me if you can. thatbk you sooo much.
SOLOMON
Thanks a lot Mrs.rebecca the video really helped
RebeccaESL
Hi Behrokh
I would be happy to help you in any way I can. Actually, I too am located in Toronto and so is Diplomat Language School, where I am the Owner / Director. You can read more about our school and find our contact information at http://www.diplomatschool.com/
Please feel free to call me and we can arrange a time to meet. There are many useful strategies you can use to do well on each section of the TOEFL exam, and I would be pleased to guide you.
Zar
Hi Dear Rebecca,
I am very glad that I found this …It does help me a lot…I was always confused with my writing skill…I feel like I am lack of ideas and have almost nothing..Plus I think I am scared to the truth of my score after I wrote something..Do you want to suggest me something that can improve my writing skill ..I am considering to take the test in Oct-Nov….One more problem of mine is grammar,i guess…Unluckily I don’t live in the same city with you and we are not able to meet in person..But I still hope you can guide me thorough on internet…Thanks and look forward to hear from you…
RebeccaESL
Thank you everyone for the kind remarks. I’m happy that the lesson has helped you. I will be adding more lessons to the site in the near future.
Zar — have you checked out http://www.goodluckTOEFL.com ? That site has a lot of material that explains in detail the structure of the TOEFL exam and tips for how to do well in each of the sections. If you need more help, you can read the reviews of the various TOEFL guidebooks on that site and see which one would be best for you.
Morrocan girl
Hello Mrs Rebecca!
So glad to find your website,thank you so much for your great effort you are doing a good job.I like your clear and simple way of teaching your method is very attractive. I wish I had a such smart teacher like you.
thanks again and keep well.we are looking forward to seeing more videos from you.
Good luck.
HASSAN
HI I am Hassan I am pharmacist I want to emprove my ENLISH but Free
Arberi
Hello Rebecca!
I hope this comment finds you well and your family too. I just came accross to your web site and I watched your Video in writing essays session and liked too much and now I feel that Writing a Essay for me is ‘just piece of cake’ after hearing your suggestions, advice, ideas….
I am really grateful to you and wish you a lot success in your up-coming involvement.
paren
Respected mam,
Thankyou for giving the tips for essays formation, can you give me the lists of other topics essay formation.
I would be glad if you give me, they would really support me to score in writing section.
chidem
Hello Rebecca! :)
So nice to meet you and so nice to be aware of this wonderful site! Thank you, I (and I am sure everybody who know) appreciate your help and work!
I need to improve my academic English well, I am going to study English language and the literature and I have a proficiency exam to pass. Therefore, I would LOVE you to help me(and others who need) more in academic essay writing.
I have read about your individual lessons from skype, is it possible for you to check, score and feedback on our essays?
I am waiting for an answer.
I wish your heart never gets in trouble dear Rebecca :)
bye.
RebeccaESL
Thanks everybody for the kind comments. Hope all of you did well on your TOEFL exams, and especially on the essays. I’ll be uploading some more TOEFL and IELTS videos soon. Remember that IELTS videos can give you helpful pointers for TOEFL and vice versa.
hakk
I am very glad that I found this …It does help me a lot…I was always
thanks a lot
Please see the comment below, Hakk. Thanks.
RebeccaESL
Quy
Dear Rebecca,
I’m a Vietnamese, I’m very like to learn English. I want to improve my english skills. I’m really happy when I discover this website. Can you share me how to improve my english. Now I’m downloading videos on the webiste to learn it. Please send me something if you think it’s helpful.
Bests and Regards
Thanks to Hakk and Quy. Glad I was able to help you through the lessons. There are so many great online learning resources available today to improve your English. There are also magazines, books, CDs, DVDs, movies, TV shows, songs…not to mention English schools where you can learn the language privately or in a group, in your own countries, or in English-speaking countries.
Many thousands of international students come to Canada every year just to improve their English, as an investment in their personal and professional future.
Good luck to both of you and please tell your friends about our website so we can continue to produce more lessons for you. Thanks.
RebeccaESL
Rodrigo
Hello Rebecca, I’d like you to know that these videos are VERY helpful for any student who is interested in taking the TOEFL test, or even to those that won’t take the test but still, are interested in improving their english.
I’d like to see more videos like these and I’m already visiting goodlucktoefl.com and finding it VERY useful and helpful as well!!!
Thank you very much!!!!
Hey Rodrigo
With feedback like yours, it is easy to be motivated to keep producing new lessons! Thanks so much for your comments and glad I was able to help you.
We are working on more TOEFL lessons, which as you rightly said, as useful to many English learners.
Will you be appearing for the TOEFL yourself?
RebeccaESL
almas
thank you
nandin
Dear Rebecca,
Thank your for your teaching. I want to get TOEFL but I can’t speak, write, listen or understand well. But I think my goal is to learn english very well. I will be able to speak english well in a year than I’m going to study abroad. It’s my dream. I can do it.
Yours sincerely.
Nandin.
Yes, Nandin, you have the right idea. Continue to improve your general English first and then you will be able to understand the academic English needed for the TOEFL.
If you decide to study in Toronto, I would be happy to help you.
RebeccaESL
shakeel
hi rebecca, I found you in the best time. I have a ielts exam on 4th of July 2009, I was wondering do you have any cd which you explained all the way to get high mark in the toefl exam in reading and listening and speakind … parts. I really need a teacher like you to explain everything for me, please let me know by mailing me and give me the price and tell me how can I get your cd if you have something similar to what I want. I forgot to tell you I live in Nottingham, United kingdom. One more thing is my main problem is in the reading and the listening part please help me if you can. thatbk you sooo much
Hi Shakeel
Glad I was able to help. We are working on the kind of DVDs you mentioned, but they’re not available yet.
You could check my websites, where there are a number of suggestions to help you with each part of the TOEFL and IELTS exams:
TOEFL
IELTS
All the best!
RebeccaESL
Dumairi
thanks a lot…how to download this vidio
jude002
hi Rebecca,
my name is jude.
and i thank you so much for this english video lesson….
please can you send one english video lesson on my mail please? bj.jude@yahoo.fr
i would like to study english in your class, but too bad
i hope one day i will get an english scholarship from toronto to come to study english in your class….if you know something about english scholarship in toronto please Rebecca let me know.
my name is jude…
mail : bj.jude@yahoo.fr
vienxu88
HI Rebecca i am glad to see your web .now can learn english video lesson with you. so all the best for you and family
Thanks kindly, and the best to you and yours as well.
RebeccaESL
Raid
Hi Rebecca,
I would like to thank you so much for this fabulous website. It is really helpful and you and your staff are more friendly, and each member has his fascinating way of presenting the lessons with the best manner. Thanks again and good luck with more motivating.
Raid
Raid
Hi Rebecca,
I’m sorry about wrote “each member” in the above comment it must written as ” every member”. Thank you
Raid
Janessa
Thnx 4 all these videoes!!! They really help me alot when i prepare the TOEFL ibt test by myself
Rebeca
Hi Rebecca,
First of all, I want to thank you for this amazing videos!! Before watching them I was seriously scared of writing essays… These videos have showed me that I can even enjoy writing them!! I have one doubt: You have showed us how to state our reasons in the essay introduction ( Professional, Academic, Social…)Can I use ” Personal reasons” as one of my reasons? When I say Personal reasons I mean personal qualities of a person. For example, if I want to say that success has nothing to do with money can I say something like : ” ( intro) Success has nothing to do with money for personal and academic reasons… ( Body 1) Personal reasons such as qualities like responsibility and maturity are essencial in order to succeed in life”.
Thank you again!!
Rebeca
So glad that you have started to enjoy writing essays. Whenever we have a key, it is much easier to walk through a door, isn’t it?
In answer to your question, yes certainly you can use personally as one of the reasons. In fact, you can use any number of words like this to organize your ideas, details and examples into well-organized paragraphs. You can use “personally’ in the way you have mentioned, no problem.
All the best with your writing for the exam and in life.
RebeccaESL
RebeccaESL
Glad all of you find the website useful.
We must actually thank Josh, who is the brain behind this website, and who puts in all the effort to make it a reality. Without Josh, there would be no engvid.
Hats off to you, Josh, and thank you from all of the teachers and students around the world.
Lucky
this site is like vary vary good teacher for who want to learn english not a learn english but also fullentaly speak english.
PhotoNery
I’d like to express my thanks to Rebecca and the very useful website. The lesson helps me a lot. Thank you ^^
sopandi
Hi Rebecca
I am sorry
What is the different between “Will & Shall ” how to use both Please explain to me
Himatyar
thanks teacher I from Afghanistan i am very happy today to found this site teacher I working in Mazar-e-sharf international Airport I want to improve my English skills teacher could you send me some useful video to my email address I will be very happy thanks teacher
hossam
Hi Rebecca
I am Hossam I watched this lecture ,I think this is an good information because all the students have to take notes before they start to write essay this is an sufficent information.This year,I repare about how can I get 7.0 in Ielts.In the first trier,I have gotten 5.5 I know this is low grades but in the future I am gonna get 7.0 because I have an incidence for getting Ielts and I will arrive for that.I search about teacher to help me in getting Ielts exam but I didn’t find .If you have idea ,I wrote my email.Thanks so much about information.
ally
Dear Rebecca,
Hi! I having problem on how to end my introduction and how to introduce my body in essay writing..like for example..For the Question which do you prefer to raise your children, in a country or city? My introduction would be something like..” I really enjoy the nature and friendly people when i was growing up in the country way back then, that is why I prefer to raise my children in the country for the following reasons.” -Rebecca, is this enough introduction for toefl IBT essay writng test. I will have my test on the 22nd of this month hope you could help me. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Ally
samir
Hi Rebecca :
so i’m just a new comer to join on this education it’s more utility to future language grade ,but i mising a lot of english becouse i’m mixed between work and english learning but alone there’s no quide to help me at now or already and that why i come more to internet till i find some classes or people have enough experince to given to other who are missing the helpful that what i have for now………..have a luck time in your work and i wish all people have respect and make a successful on their stuff with you and others bye
fan-xiu-er
hello,Ms Rebecca
i’m glad to know this website and i love your lessons so much.i think it’s useful for me.i’m a student.and i’m really enjoy in learning TOEFL but i have a trouble about writing.
so,please,can you give me some advices about how to write an outline for an essay effectively?
thank you very much and i’m look forward to seeing your answering.
mourad
I really appreciated the video on how to structure the TOEFL essay and shall be grateful if you could help me with the structure of the discursive essay.
mady
Excellent! engvid.com is most powerful site to learn English very easily. thanks a lot god bless you all………………………
saerhan
I can’t see any video in this site, what is the problem? (How can i manage my adobe flash player to watch and download videos?)
You need to be able watch YouTube to watch lessons on this site. Some countries do not allow YouTube (Turkey, China, etc.)
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arjun
Dear madam,
I would like to write a business letters,
but I am not able to do it.I Want learn writing a business letters. please help me how write and where i can get exampls. please let me know