COURSE DESCRIPTION
Communication III is a two-skill integration of listening
and speaking designed to help SS of English who plan to take the IELTS exam to
demonstrate that they have the required ability to communicate effectively in
English, either at work or at university locally and internationally. It is
ideal for SS who are aiming for band score 5.0 or higher on the IELTS test (CEF
level B2 and above). This course runs for 3 hours every week for a total of 45
hours within 15 weeks and 90 hours for self-study.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Develop the students’ English listening proficiency to reach
IELTS 5.0 (CEF B2 level).
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the
end of the course, students will be able to get:
1. Knowledge
- Memorize 250 to 300 academic IELTS vocabulary.
- Identify main ideas, specific information, topics and
attitude/opinions of speakers in a dialogue or monologue.
- Demonstrate the ability to take dictation of language which
is level-specific.
- Identify the speaker’s purpose from the introduction to a
lecture
- Take notes and respond to questions about the topic, main
ideas, details and opinions or arguments from an extended listening text (e.g.
lecture, news broadcast)
- Distinguish facts from opinions and main ideas from
supporting details
- Recognize and practice consonant/vowel sounds, sound
patterns, stressed and unstressed syllables specified in the academic listening
and speaking course books.
- Identify standard spoken language, live or broadcast, on
both familiar and unfamiliar topics normally encountered in personal, academic
or vocational life.
- Identify announcements and messages on concrete and abstract
topics spoken in standard language at normal speed.
- Identify most TV news and current affairs programs such as
documentaries, live interviews, talk shows, plays and the majority of films in
standard language.
2. Comprehension
- Explain the 150 to 180 academic words.
- Interpret context in conversation.
- Select the words or phrases to fill the forms correctly.
- Explain the key words.
- Classify the gist and key words during listening note-taking.
- Summarize short and long listening passages.
- Discuss comprehensibly using an adequate range of
grammatical structures and vocabulary.
- Initiate, maintain and close a conversation of a general
nature.
- Follow extended speech and complex lines of argument
provided the topic is reasonably familiar, and the direction of the talk is
clearly stated by the speaker.
- Follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and
other forms of presentation which use complex ideas and language
3. Application
- Apply a good range of vocabulary for matters connected to
their field and most general topics and can vary formulation to avoid frequent
repetition
- Respond to questions about a conversation between two to
more speakers in relation to context, relationship between speakers, register
(e.g. formal or informal).
- Transfer specific information from a listening text into a
table/diagram
- Write the correct answer into filling the listening question
types.
- Report information, events and activities.
- Demonstrate a presentation, an interview and a group
discussion.
- Paraphrase information from a spoken text.
- Classify consonant/vowel sounds, sound patterns, stressed
and unstressed syllables specified in the academic listening and speaking
course books.
- Show the main ideas of complex speech on both concrete and abstract
topics delivered in a standard language including technical discussions in
their field of specialization.
4. Analysis
- Distinguish key words, phrases, sentences and texts in the
academic listening and speaking context.
- Compare information, events and activities.
- Debate in the academic speaking context.
- Distinguish between intonation in questions and statements
- Distinguish between short and long vowels specified in the
syllables.
5. Synthesis
- Collect and construct report of information, events and
activities through academic listening and speaking context.
- Develop report of information, events and activities through
academic listening and speaking context.
- Construct appropriate stress/intonation patterns
contributing to effective communication of utterance.
- Produce organized notes using symbols and abbreviations
6. Evaluation
- Evaluate report of information, events and activities
through academic listening and speaking context.
- Assess information, events and activities.
- Argue from non-academic to various academic context.
Duration of the course: 45 hours
Study Time: Contact us to arrange your class .
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