At the beginning of the first TOEFL Writing task, you will read an academic passage that tackles three main claims and is 250-300 words long. Next, you will listen to a lecture where a professor disagrees with one of the claims. Your job here is to write an essay explaining the claims and how the speaker is challenging them. Here is the precise structure:
- Reading time: 3 minutes.
- Lecture length: About 2 minutes.
- Response time: 20 minutes.
Unlike the TOEFL Independent Writing task, where you give your own opinion, TOEFL Integrated Writing topics require you to summarize opinions that you read and hear. This first task in TOEFL Writing really is all about note-taking, paraphrasing, and reporting. Read on to learn all about TOEFL Writing Task 1!
The Integrated task from the TOEFL writing section includes a passage and an audio lecture on an academic topic. You have three minutes to read the passage and two minutes to listen to the lecture. The task requires you to obtain the key points and write an essay according to the question.
The TOEFL writing topics for this task are mostly taken from subjects like science, social science, psychology, and others. You can expect these types of questions below in task 1 of the TOEFL writing test: