2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses English language courses
TOEIC Seminar 2 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.E162
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
"TOEIC Seminar 2" 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 various situations. Additional tasks will be provided to foster abilities to create persuasive sentences and paragraphs.
*In the first class, in case the number of students wishing to register for the course exceeds the lecture hall capacity, enrollment may be limited by lottery. In that case, priority to reigster will be given to students who are continuing the course from the first quarter. Do not purchase the textbook before your acceptance in the course is confirmed in the first class.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Unit 8 "Entertainment" | TOEIC style exercises about "Entertainment" and comparisons |
| Class 2 | Unit 9 "Purchasing" | TOEIC style exercises about "Purchasing" and infinitives |
| Class 3 | Unit 10 "Corporate Development" | TOEIC style exercises about "Corporate Development" and adverbs |
| Class 4 | Unit 11 "Technical Areas" | TOEIC style exercises about "Technical Areas" and relative pronouns |
| Class 5 | Unit 12 "Travel" | TOEIC style exercises about "Travel" and compound relatives |
| Class 6 | Unit 13 "Housing/Corporate Property" / Unit 14 "Personnel" | TOEIC style exercises about "Housing / Corporate Property," "Personnel," past perfect tense and causative verbs |
| Class 7 | Review of the 2nd 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)
Yoshizuka Hiroshi & Graham Skerritt, Best Practice for the TOEIC L&R Test -Advanced-, Seibi-do (2023) ISBN 978-4791972708
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.E161 ： TOEIC Seminar 1
Prerequisites
None
Other
It is recommended that students take this course in sequence with TOEIC Seminar 1.