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Speaking/Listening 031
Through this intermediate-level course, students learn strategies and skills for listening to academic lectures, taking notes, discussing lectures, and giving a variety of informal and formal presentations, which may include a simple PowerPoint presentation. Students also learn how to understand and participate in daily conversations with native speakers by learning common idioms and the grammatical forms underlying fast speech. Along with this, students practice and learn to predict basic pronunciation points such as word stress, phrase stress and intonation.
Speaking/Listening 032
This course builds on the strategies and skills for listening, speaking and note-taking presented in Speaking/Listening 031. Students listen to and take notes on longer, more complex academic lectures and present lectures to the class. They give a variety of informal and formal presentations and some impromptu speeches. Students continue to learn common idioms, fast speech forms and pronunciation strategies and skills that will help them to understand and successfully participate in a variety of communication situations.
Speaking/Listening 041
For high-intermediate students who need to improve listening, speaking and note-taking skills needed to succeed in university classes. 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 fast speech. Students also practice the basic elements of English speech such as articulation of words, focal stress, thought groups, and intonation.
Speaking/Listening 042
This course continues to provide high-intermediate students with opportunities to refine listening, speaking and note-taking skills needed to succeed in university classes and to interact with native speakers in general. Students listen to longer lectures on various academic topics and take notes and perform a number of informal and formal speaking tasks, including participating in group discussions, defending an opinion, speaking persuasively, giving an impromptu speech and PowerPoint presentations.