2024 Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses English language courses
TOEIC Seminar 1 1
- Academic unit or major
- English language courses
- Instructor(s)
- Daisuke Harada
- Class Format
- Exercise (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Wed
- Class
- 1
- Course Code
- LAE.E161
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
"TOEIC Seminar 1" is designed as an introductory course for students planning to take the TOEIC test. Of the four English-language skills, it puts special emphasis on listening and reading.
Offering TOEIC-style exercises, this course enables students to become familiar with the TOEIC test format. It also aims at improving students' overall English ability by expanding their knowledge of vocabulary and grammar.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
・ familiarize themselves with the TOEIC test format.
・ increase their vocabulary, refine their knowledge of various grammatical structures, and brush up their listening and reading skills.
・ comprehensively improve their English to achieve higher scores on the TOEIC test.
Keywords
TOEIC, listening skills, reading skills, vocabulary, grammar
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
By using exercise questions of the TOEIC Listening and Reading Test, students will build a firm base on which to strengthen practical use of English in diverse real-world situations. Additional tasks will be provided to foster abilities to create persuasive sentences and paragraphs.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Test Format:Seven parts of the TOEIC L&R test Unit 1 "Dining Out" | Features of the TOEIC L&R Test TOEIC style exercises about "Dining Out" and prepositions |
| Class 2 | Unit 2 "Offices" | TOEIC style exercises about "Offices" and adjectives |
| Class 3 | Unit 3 "General Business" | TOEIC style exercises about "General Business" and conjunctions |
| Class 4 | Unit 4 "Manufacturing" | TOEIC style exercises about "Manufacturing" and correlative conjunctions |
| Class 5 | Unit 5 "Communication" | TOEIC style exercises about "Communication" and participle constructions |
| Class 6 | Unit 6 "Health" and Unit 7 "Finance and Budgeting" | TOEIC style exercises about "Health," "Finance and budgeting," inverted sentence structures and passive voice |
| Class 7 | Review of the first quarter Quarter Examination | Overall exercises |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Best Practice for the TOEIC L&R Test -Advanced-, Seibi-do (2023)
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Additional readings and homework will be provided to cover the topic of the week.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students are assessed on practical English skills and on the degree to which they can use them to communicate with others.
In-class Task and Homework 50%
Quarter examination 50%
Related courses
- LAE.E162 ： TOEIC Seminar 2
Prerequisites
None
Other
It is recommended that students take this course in sequence with TOEIC Seminar 2.