SearchSpeaking/Listening
Speaking/Listening 1
In this high-beginning level course, students are introduced to basic listening strategies and skills with content on general interest and cultural topics, basic conversation and pronunciation skills, and basic academic speaking skills. Students retell main points of conversations and stories, understand and use basic reduced speech forms, participate in discussions, and give oral presentations.
Speaking/Listening 2
In this low-intermediate level course, students are introduced to basic academic listening and note-taking strategies and skills with content on general interest and cultural topics as well as academic topics. They also develop basic conversation and pronunciation skills as well as basic academic speaking skills. Students continue to use reduced speech forms and understand and use basic idioms. They also use notes to discuss short lectures and give a variety of oral presentations.
Speaking/Listening 3
This intermediate level course builds on the strategies and skills for listening, note-taking, and speaking presented in the previous course. Students listen to and take notes on longer, more complex academic lectures. They give a variety of formal and informal presentations, including a PowerPoint presentation. Students also continue to learn common idioms, reduced speech forms, and pronunciation strategies and skills that will help them to understand and successfully participate in a variety of communication situations.
Speaking/Listening 4
This high-intermediate level course builds on the strategies and skills for academic listening, note-taking, and speaking developed in Speaking/Listening 3. Students learn and practice various note-taking methods, listen for and understand discourse markers in lectures, and give a number of formal and informal presentations. The course reinforces the functional use of English within the context of everyday conversations that contain idiomatic expressions and reduced speech.
Speaking/Listening 5
Students in this high-intermediate course continue to build on the academic listening, note-taking, and speaking strategies and skills learned in the previous course. They listen to longer lectures on various academic topics and continue to practice various note-taking methods. They also continue to develop appropriate conversation and pronunciation skills and perform a number of formal and informal speaking tasks, including participating in group discussions, defending an opinion, speaking persuasively, and giving impromptu speeches and PowerPoint presentations.
Speaking/Listening 6
Students in this advanced course continue to improve effective academic listening and note-taking strategies and skills, including identifying main points, sub-points, and details in longer lectures. They also continue to develop effective conversation and pronunciation strategies and skills, including using advanced idioms and common slang and participating in a variety of speaking activities such as panel discussions and PowerPoint presentations.
Speaking/Listening 7
Students in this advanced course continue to improve and refine effective academic listening and note-taking strategies and skills. They continue to develop effective conversation and pronunciation strategies and skills, including using complex modals, advanced idioms, and metaphoric language. They also engage in effective academic speaking strategies and skills, including several PowerPoint presentations.