This post may be useful for people teaching TOEIC to French students – I know you are out there ;).
I have already mentioned the Cobra Dictionary and my use of it. To recap I used a gap fill activity (using the word bid) as a first stage, then a dictation activity as a second stage (where students needed to match the dictated English sentences to given French equivalents) and a reverse translation activity (students translated the given French sentences to English and check with original English sentences) as a third stage.
A recent post on using translation over on LexicalLab reminded me to come up with a similar activity for my 2nd semester TOEIC students.
Looking at salient words in Unit 1 of the book Cambridge Target Score I chose the following:
applicants
contract
training
interview
as search words in the Cobra dictionary. I chose two examples for…
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