TOEFL prep

This is Slow Food’s official site : http://www.slowfood.com/

Click on About Us to learn more about this international organization. Then, check out the Slow Food Manifesto and answer the following questions: 

Now let’s watch  The Meatrix . (An animated parody of The Matrix) How are the web site information and the video related?

Finally, check out the Slow Food Project and see how the concept is being transmitted to Elementary School children. Do you think it will be successful? What factors will determine its eventual success?

Bonus link: http://www.supersizeme.com/

Find out more information about Andrew Carnegie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/

Find out information about other famous philanthropists. Choose one of them and prepare a short presentation to share with your classmates.      

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_S._Hershey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Newman

                              The real one!                Check it out at:http://www.iowafarmertoday.com/corn_cam/ .

Do you find it as relaxing as they said on the radio report?

What would you rather do in order to relax instead of watching Corn Cam?

The New Generation TOEFL integrates the four skills, reading, listening, writing and speaking as the occur in real life. Therefore, the test assesses not only your knowledge about the language, but your communicative competence i.e. how you use the language.

Let’s take a TOEFL IBT tour

Listen to an Interview about the TOEFL IBT.

How much do you know about American Universities? What is the Ivy_League?
Take a College Tour with Alex. What does he think about each University?
Now, let’s take a tour ourselves. Choose a University with your partner and find out as much as you can about it. Click here http://www.campustours.com/ and type the University name in the search box. Then, get ready to give a short presentation about it.
Let’s start!