TOEIC Read a Text Aloud practice
TOEIC Speaking starts with two texts to read aloud: 45 seconds to prepare, 45 to read, scored on pronunciation and on intonation and stress. Here you read a real line, hear a speaker say it, record yours and compare, free. Sada does not grade individual sounds and its result is not a TOEIC score.
Practise one line now
The exercise opens on one line from Oprah Winfrey’s talk at 0:44: “Thank you for letting me share this amazing day with you.” Read it aloud from this page once, then open it to hear the speaker and say it after them. Record your take and open Compare to play it beside the original. No account is needed, and recordings stay on your device.
Key facts
- Any captioned YouTube video
- No extension, works on phone and computer
- No account needed to practise; a free, optional account keeps your history on every device
- Free, no paid plan
- Recordings stay on your device
- Repeat and Shadow modes
- Word recognition and timing feedback (not per-sound grading)
How the task works
According to ETS’s page about the TOEIC Speaking and Writing tests and its examinee handbook, read on 9 October 2026:
| Part of the test | What ETS says |
|---|---|
| The Speaking test | 11 questions in about 20 minutes, scored from 0 to 200 |
| Read a text aloud | Questions 1 and 2: the text appears on the screen |
| Time | 45 seconds to prepare, then “Begin reading aloud now” and 45 seconds to read the text aloud |
| How it is scored | Two scores for each answer, each from 0 to 3: pronunciation, and intonation and stress (emphases, pauses, and rising and falling pitch that suit the text) |
| The sample text | An advertisement for a hotel, with lists such as “shopping, sightseeing, and running around” |
Sada is not connected with ETS. Its lines are not test items, and the words it recognised are not a TOEIC score and do not predict one. For the real format, use ETS’s official sample tests.
What Sada can and cannot tell you
After each take, Compare marks the words it recognised and the ones it missed, so you can see at once which word you dropped or swallowed, even when you did not hear yourself do it. In After the speaker mode it also gives your pace against the speaker’s, for example “20% slower than the speaker”, so you can tell whether you stopped in the middle.
It does not grade individual sounds, stress, pauses or pitch, which are what this task scores. What it gives you is the speaker’s version beside yours: play them one after the other and listen for where you paused, which words you made strong and where your voice went up or down. A missed word can come from noise or a distant microphone, so play your take before judging it.
Seven lines like a talk, an announcement or an advertisement
Each line is a real sentence from the start of a talk, 11 to 24 words, short to long. Three are lists, like the ones in ETS’s sample text. Every one opens in After the speaker mode.
“Thank you for letting me share this amazing day with you.”
Oprah Winfrey · 0:44 · Practise this line →
Eleven words of welcome. Stress “thank”, “share”, “amazing” and “day”; “for letting me” is quick.
“But before I get started, I have a quick question for the audience.”
Arthur Benjamin · 0:24 · Practise this line →
A pause at the comma, then a fall at the end. Say “before I get started” as one unit, with the stress on “started”.
“So that's no emailing, texting, no Internet, no TV, no chatting, no eating, no reading.”
Andy Puddicombe · 0:36 · Practise this line →
A list of seven items. Give each its own short beat, keep the voice up until the last one, then let it fall on “no reading”.
“Ladies and gentlemen, at TED we talk a lot about leadership and how to make a movement.”
Derek Sivers · 0:16 · Practise this line →
An announcer’s opening. Pause after “Ladies and gentlemen”; the stress falls on “leadership” and “movement”.
“They have the same access to the same talent, the same agencies, the same consultants, the same media.”
Simon Sinek · 0:40 · Practise this line →
A list that repeats “the same”. Keep “the same” light and quick, and stress the word that changes: talent, agencies, consultants, media.
“I am delighted to be here and grateful to all of you for joining us for this discussion.”
Robert Waldinger · 0:05 · Practise this line →
A host’s welcome in eighteen words. Two halves joined by “and”: “delighted to be here” and “grateful to all of you”.
“So, I'm going to talk to you for just three minutes about the importance of why you need to try to make more mistakes.”
Derek Sivers · 0:21 · Practise this line →
Twenty-four words, the longest here. Stress “three minutes” and “mistakes”; do not stop at “importance of”.
How to practise each line
- Read it from this page first. Give yourself 45 seconds to read it silently, as the test does, then read the line aloud once without hearing it.
- Hear how a speaker says it. Open the line: Sada plays the speaker, then records you saying it after them.
- Compare. Play your take beside the original and look at the words Sada did not recognise.
- Copy the pauses and the stress. Say it again with the speaker’s chunks: where they pause, which words are strong, where the voice falls.
- Read it once more from the page. Without the audio, as in the test. Then go on to a longer line.
For lists, the pattern to copy is the same in almost every text: the voice stays up on each item and falls on the last one. Ten minutes a day is enough: two or three lines, then your first and newest takes side by side in Compare’s “First try vs now”.
Keep going
Taking PTE Academic instead? Its Read Aloud task is scored on every word as well: PTE Read Aloud practice. The same features, stress, intonation and rhythm, are one of the four IELTS Speaking criteria: IELTS pronunciation practice. Preparing for an English interview at work? See English job interview practice. Which other tests have a repeat or read-aloud task, and which have none: speaking tests with a repeat task.
Questions people ask
How long do I have for TOEIC Read a Text Aloud?
ETS gives 45 seconds to prepare and 45 seconds to read the text aloud. It is questions 1 and 2 of the 11 questions in the TOEIC Speaking test.
How is TOEIC Read a Text Aloud scored?
Each answer gets two scores from 0 to 3: one for pronunciation and one for intonation and stress, which ETS describes as emphases, pauses, and rising and falling pitch that suit the text.
How can I practise TOEIC Read a Text Aloud for free?
Read real English lines aloud, record yourself, and compare your take with a speaker saying the same words, listening for pauses, stress and where the voice falls. In Sada each line on this page opens in After the speaker mode. It is free and needs no account.
Does Sada give me a TOEIC score?
No. Sada is not connected with ETS, its lines are not test items, and its result is not a TOEIC score and does not predict one. It shows which words it recognised and your timing against the speaker; it does not grade stress or intonation.
How should I read a list aloud?
Give each item its own short beat with a small pause after it, keep your voice up on the items before the last one, and let it fall on the last one. Three of the lines on this page are lists to practise this.
Is it free?
Yes. Sada is free, with no account and no paid plan, and works in the browser on a phone or a computer. Recordings stay on your device.
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