Listening and speaking
is a supporting English proficiency-cum-oral course designed to help
degree students improve their pronunciation, speaking, discussion,
conversational and presentation skills.
At the end of the
course, the students will have acquired the following:
Ability to pronounce English words better A wider academic vocabulary A better sense of English fluency and rhythm
Confidence to speak in English Ability to talk on topics for three to four
minutes
Each
week there is a class of three hours. The course is organised around an
introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet, oral tasks,
practice role-plays, questions, oral summarising, short stories, oral
presentations and remedial grammar.
The teacher works on expanding the students' active oral
vocabulary, improving their pronunciation with exercises,
raising their ability to speak about ideas and concepts in their
own words, refining their use of oral grammar and improving
textual coherence and cohesion in their oral presentations.
There are oral assignments and a final oral examination to
assess how much the students have learnt.
Pronunciation exercises Conversation Passing information Oral grammar (shortened forms) and oral
vocabulary Role plays Summaries Short stories Oral presentations
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