Dies ist nur eine Beispielaufgabe die das ETS auf seiner Seite frei gegeben hat. Für eine umfassende Prüfungsorbereitung empfehlen wir dir die passenden Bücher zum Selbststudium. Wenn du natürlich bei den Beispielaufgaben merkst, dass es dir sehr leicht fällt, musst du nicht so intensiv in die Vorbereitung einsteigen. Hast du große Probleme sei vielleicht ein Vorbereitungskurs plus passendes Buch empfohlen.
Auf dieser Seite ist ein Beispiel für die Writing-Aufgabe aufgeführt.
Was kommt im Writing-Teil des TOEFL IBT Testes auf dich zu:
Die Gesamtzeit die dir für die Bearbeitung zur Verfügung steht ist 50 Minuten. Du musst schriftlich auf zwei Aufgaben antworten. Die erste ist die sogenannte „integrated Writing task“ die 20 Minuten Zeit benötigt. Bei dieser wird dir ein Text vorgelegt und du hörst den Teil einer Vorlesung oder Gesprächs. Der Text bleibt einsehbar, zur Vorlesung musst du dir Notizen anfertigen. Aus beiden Teilen ergeben sich Informationen die du zur schriftlichen Beantwortung der Frage benötigst. Die zweite Aufgabe (30 Minuten) verlangt die Anfertigung eines kurzen Essays zu einem bestimmten Thema.
Folgende Punkte sind zu beachten:
• Die Antworten werden nach dem Inhalt und nach dem korrekten Gebrauch der englischen Sprache bewertet. Es müssen alle wichtigen Informationen wiedergegeben werden. Die Satzstrukturen müssen korrekt sein.
• Die Antworten müssen zeigen, dass man die Gedanken aus dem Text und der Vorlesung verstanden hat.
• Die Antworten sollten nicht deine Meinung wiedergeben, sondern sollen zeigen, dass man organisiert und strukturiert die Antwort auf die gestellte Fragen mit Hilfe der Informationen aus Text und Vorlesung geben kann.
•Die Antworten sollten zwischen 150 und 225 Wörter lang sein.
Aufgabe1: The IntegratedWriting Task
READING (die zu lesende Textpassage)
In many organizations, perhaps the best way to approach certain new projects is to
assemble a group of people into a team. Having a team of people attack a project offers
several advantages. First of all, a group of people has a wider range of knowledge,
expertise, and skills than any single individual is likely to possess. Also, because of the
numbers of people involved and the greater resources they possess, a group can work
more quickly in response to the task assigned to it and can come up with highly creative
solutions to problems and issues. Sometimes these creative solutions come about because
a group is more likely to make risky decisions that an individual might not undertake.
This is because the group spreads responsibility for a decision to all the members and
thus no single individual can be held accountable if the decision turns out to be wrong.
Taking part in a group process can be very rewarding for members of the team. Team
members who have a voice in making a decision will no doubt feel better about carrying out the work that is entailed by that decision than they might doing work that is imposed on them by others. Also, the individual team member has a much better chance to “shine,” to get his or her contributions and ideas not only recognized but recognized as highly significant, because a team’s overall results can be more far-reaching and have greater impact than what might have otherwise been possible for the person to accomplish or contribute working alone.
LISTEN (die Hörpassage)
(Professor) Now I want to tell you about what one company found when it decided that
it would turn over some of its new projects to teams of people, and make the team
responsible for planning the projects and getting the work done. After about six months,
the company took a look at how well the teams performed.
On virtually every team, some members got almost a “free ride” … they didn’t
contribute much at all, but if their team did a good job, they nevertheless benefited from
the recognition the team got. And what about group members who worked especially
well and who provided a lot of insight on problems and issues? Well…the recognition for
a job well done went to the group as a whole, no names were named. So it won’t surprise
you to learn that when the real contributors were asked how they felt about the group
process, their attitude was just the opposite of what the reading predicts.
Another finding was that some projects just didn’t move very quickly. Why? Because
it took so long to reach consensus…it took many, many meetings to build the agreement
among group members about how they would move the project along. On the other hand,
there were other instances where one or two people managed to become very influential
over what their group did. Sometimes when those influencers said “That will never work”
about an idea the group was developing, the idea was quickly dropped instead of being
further discussed. And then there was another occasion when a couple influencers
convinced the group that a plan of theirs was “highly creative.” And even though some
members tried to warn the rest of the group that the project was moving in directions that
might not work, they were basically ignored by other group members. Can you guess the
ending to *this* story? When the project failed, the blame was placed on all the members
of the group.
Folgen Frage ist zu beantworten:
Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt
on points made in the reading.
