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Yesterday, I took the TOEIC test. It was the first TOEIC test in four months because the one in March was canceled in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
A lot of things happened after the disaster, but that't not the point here, so I'll stick to the theme, "TOEIC 201105."
Yesterday, I tried really hard to remember questions, especially distractors for vocabulary questions in part 5. When I try to create TOEIC-like items for my ERA questions, I always have to stop and think how I can make the questions look authentic, here what I mean is how the items look likely to appear on the actual TOEIC test.
It's kind of easy to create Part-of-speech questions because the number of possible distractors is limited, verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, with some variations in some of these categories.
But in the case of vocabulary questions, the choices are virtually countless. You don't even know how many verbs the English language have, you know. Still, there must be some trend, or a rule in the choice of distractors in the TOEIC test, and I wanted to find some kind of rules that I can use in creating my own items, in vain.
It's really frustrating how I can't remember these items! The only questions I remembered were one part 5 item and another part 6 one. That's all. Terrible....
Anyway, I think I enjoyed my first TOEIC in four months and the review session I had with my fellow TTT-graduates afterwards.
Okay, that's ten minutes. Let's see how many words I typed :-)
Voila!
252 words.
Well, I'm happy that I typed in more words than the last time. I guess I had less backspacing this time.
ERAって何？って思った方
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あ、ERAはプロセス英語会が発行している会員向けメール通信『Be Proactive』の中にある"Extensive Reading Assignment"という問題です。英字新聞の記事を読んでそれに基づいた質問に答えて頂いてます。
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