TOEFL Speaking

Simplistic application purpose built to aid in practicing TOEFL speaking tasks I & II. It provides questions from an offline question list and provide a timer to time the preparation and response times. Beeping to notify end of preparation and response times.
This is an opensource application. Everybody is welcome to contribute.

github: https://github.com/rsachira/toeflspeaking


As a TOEFL student I find the speaking tasks I & II to be difficult as it require fast preparation and quick wits. As the preparation time is just 15 seconds, mastering this task requires practice in brainstorming, quick identification of points, and completing the response not less, not more but to exactly cover the allocated time of 45 seconds. Despite having completed primary, secondary and tertiary education in English and being a capable speaker in daily contexts, I still require more practice to master this section.
This section does not take much time. A single task is just 60 seconds and it does not require any other material except the topic and a timer to practice. Therefore, this task can be practiced literally anywhere given that the above two requirements are provided.
Personally, I am doing TOEFL while working. Most TOEFL students are doing while either working or reading for a degree. Therefore, it may be difficult for them to find the time to sit down, open a laptop and practice. Personally, it is difficult for me to find the time for that. Moreover, getting ready to practice takes more than 60 seconds!
I found that I am able to find time in between other daily routines. Especially when I am commuting to work. It has a one and a half to two hours commute to my work place from home. Since I travel by bus, if I am able to practice this task using a mobile phone, that one and half to two hours time I sit in the bus can be productively utilized. This lead me to look for Android applications to practice the speaking tasks.
However, I was not able to find an application for my liking. Most TOEFL applications are designed to aid in all the areas of the test. These offer few tests most cases one or two. In some cases, payments have to be made to unlock more tests. Therefore, these apps do not offer sufficient practice for speaking as two tests only constitutes to two speaking questions.
Despite this, tones of free speaking task I, II practice questions are available online. This lead me to develop this application. It is a simplistic, purpose built application for speaking tasks I and II. It provides questions and timing for each question (both preparation and response times). A beep mechanism is used to notify the end of preparation time and response time.
This app is opensource. It does not contain Ads or any other means to gain a monetary advantage. This was purely developed to help me practice this section. Source code and the question list of the application can be found in the GitHub page: https://github.com/rsachira/toeflspeaking
Any interested developers can contribute to this application by adding features and questions as they see fit by sending pull requests. If you are not a developer, and yet require some features or require more questions to be added, you can comment here about the features needed and email me the question lists you require to be added. But please visit the GitHub page and follow the instructions before sending the questions.