SKILLFUL 2 - LISTENING & SPEAKING 1

Listening skill Upon completion of the course, students should be able to: - Predict with strategies - Listen for main ideas with language signals - Listen for examples /details - Listen for reasons/ time signals - Listen for comparisons / contrasts - Listen to summarize - Listen for vocabulary in context - Listen for opinions / cause and effect - Recognize oganizational phrases - Listen for problems and solutions - Listen for order of events/a process - Listen for details to add to a visual - Listen for pros and cons - Understand speaker's attitude - Listen to how an argument is supported Speaking skill Upon completion of the course, students should be able to: - Offer advice and suggestions - Encourage communiaction - Shift the topic - Ask for clarification - Agree and disagree - Explain something you don't know the word for - Manage questions - Be an effective public speaker - Use and refer to visual aids - Refute an argument Pronunciation skill Upon completion of the course, students should be able to: - Pronounce stress patterns, stress in compound nouns, sentence stress, emphatic stress and stress in words with suffixes - Fall or rise intonation in tag questions/conditional sentences - Link vowel sound and the same consonant sounds - Be aware of the schwa