SPEAKING Strategies

TOEFL Tip

In the TOEFL iBT Virtual Interview task, you may be asked to speak about familiar topics such as your hometown, school, interests, friends, and personal experiences. To prepare effectively, practice answering questions about yourself in a clear, organized, and confident way. For example:

1) Which of the clubs would you be most interested in joining—the cooking club, film club, or music club?

2) Some people think music education should focus on classical music; others think the focus should be on pop music. Which do you think is more important and why?

a) Answer the questions, referring to your own life. For the first example task, you could make a choice based on your own interests and then explain your decision.

b) Support your opinions by giving details and examples from your own experiences.

In the second example task, you could provide some benefits of learning about either classical or pop music based on the things that you have experienced or seen.