600 Essential Words for the TOEIC Test (with 2 Audio CD)

This valuable book, designed to help students preparing for the Test of English for International Communications, is available in a new, updated edition that now includes a compact disc to provide vital help in pronunciation and listening comprehension. Students are presented with American-style English vocabulary as it is used in the context of business, industry, and technology. Short follow-up quizzes at the end of each section test students’ learning progress.

From the Inside Flap

50 vocabulary-building lessons in American English as it is used in modern business, industry, communications, and cultural activities
Each lesson presents 12 target words with definitions
Practice exercises and a quizzes follow all lessons
Enclosed audio CD provides essential help in pronunciation and listening comprehension

Reviews
"Barron's 600 Essential Words for the TOEIC" is the book I recommend to all my students who have studied strategies and methods (and score around 600-700) but who don't have enough English vocabulary to understand everything they heard on the TOEIC. Here's why I love this book:


1. The words are a combination of verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs that students will find useful both for the TOEIC and in real life.

2. The words are divided by topic (ex: medical, hospitality, etc.), so that students can study words that often appear in the same text.

3. Each of the 50 different units has various types of practice exercises & quizzes (about 40-50 fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice questions per unit), so that you get to hear and read the TOEIC Words in different kinds of texts and talks.

4. Each unit has a section that gives other "forms" or "parts of speech" of the 12 words (ex: except, exception, exceptional) so that you can see how the meaning of the word changes depending on whether it is a verb, noun, adjective or adverb.

5. The Questions in the book are at about the same level of difficulty as the real TOEIC test.

6. After every 4 or 5 Units there is a Unit Review quiz, so that you can test yourself on words you studied previously.

Overall, this is one of the best TOEIC test preparations books around. While it doesn't have any grammar practice or complete TOEIC Tests (see my website for a list of my recommended TOEIC Test practice books), it will build your vocabulary skills up so that you will not feel lost in any Reading Text, Conversation or Talk.