Hi, friends
I'm sorry I coudn't reply sooner, but I really had good reasons for that.
Anyway, I filled for a rescore of my May 3 toefl exam {writting section} and the problem is that it appeared on my orders page over the internet 13 days after I faxed it to the ets. So I will have to wait for 3 weeks till I recieve my result.
About the preparation for the speaking part, I guess the best book that I beleive helped me alot is the book by ets. I had all books, longman ,delta,kaplan cambridge, but the one that really told me what I missed in my responses was the ets book{audio responses}.
So for the first 2 independant tasks I used this forum to get all the independant topics that you send my friends. One important thing that I noticed in my exams is that all the independant tasks are repeated sooner or later in the ibt, maybe with minor variations but it's all the same. I think they don't have an endless pool from which they get independant topics. Theses topics are repeated, always repeated.
I used to practice these topics alot. recording for myself and keeping these recordings, and then 2 days later I go back and hear my recordings, editing and adding to it. This site too is really helpfull
English Listening Language Lab Online - Learn English Naturally . I used it to get transitions , ideas for resonses and more topics.
The first 2 tasks are very important if your aim is 26 in speaking , remmeber u need 2 good and one fair to get this score. And it is easier to answer these 2 tasks than the next four.
For question noumber 3 and 4 I used the guidlines posted on this forum by tarek el asser
http://www.urch.com/forums/toefl-speaking/79318-finally-idid-thanks-god.html
These guidline do comply with the aswears that ets grad as good in the audio cd of the book. I followed them and it worked well for me. No more proof.
concernig question number 5 , I beleive is the easiest of all ,one can strictly follow these instructions
YouTube - TOEFL Speaking
these instructions are helpful and it works well I believe.
for the last question no 6. hear is the deal. It is all about good note taking.
I can't count the many times that I toke notes from the listening lecture or conversation and then when it comes to answering, I can't read what I have written. If you have a good idea of what the question is asking from you, then you will be focused on what to take notes about. You don't have to wite everything. You don't have to write it in english even. I wrote in my own language the ideas {IDEAS} that I can then use in my response.
remmeber we are not native english speakers, so there is no need to make it harder for ourselves to write ideas in english. Write them in whatever form you feel more comfortable in, and it will be helpful for you asl long as these notes are neat and easy to follow.
practice listening to longer audio scripts froml listening parts of the test and try to take notes and parphrase it in your own words later, this will be harder to you at home but very helpful in the actual test
I belive this test needs just devotion. One last thing is that whenever you fail one test. This means that u need to change your stratgy for the next one. It is not by the number of exams you take, it all depends on the stratgy of your answer