TOEFL TIP: How to speak more clearly

• Concentrate on speaking clearly with good pronunciation and intonation.
• Speak with confidence and open your mouth wider than you normally do.
• It is difficult to be understood if you speak word by word. Try to speak in thought groups.
• Take a reading passage and mark the thought groups first. Then read it aloud paying close attention to these groups of words and ideas.
• Get a book on tape or get a transcript from a news report, interview or play.
• Listen to the performance and mark the pauses, stress and intonation on the transcript.
• Then read the transcript and try to imitate the pauses, stress and intonation patterns.

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