• Cook Frances

First lesson: Friday, Sept 20    ROOM 1.04   Meet at 13:45 for our first lesson

ATTENTION! COURSE TIME CHANGE:  Due to numerous course conflicts reported by students, this course is being moved to Friday afternoon. The 'official' time posted on MyUni will be 13:15-15:00, but the exact time will be agreed upon at our first lesson and depend on all students availability. Please note the new room.

This course is for BA S1 students. 

This course is done in conjunction with Guided Autonomous Study Year 2 Part 1

Overview:

The second year Advanced English Programme courses (Autumn: "Informal Spoken English”; Spring: "Integrated Skills”) provide practical work  in speaking, reading, writing and oral comprehension intended to help you develop further towards a secure use of English in the public and professional world, and gain confidence to be a role model for your future students.

Informal spoken English is a genre of discourse used in everyday situations and is critical for social bonding, cooperative learning, interpreting literature, information processing etc. The autumn course, Informal Spoken English, presents activities for listening, speaking and analysis of speech. You will improve your knowledge of idiomatic English and phrasal verbs, which will help you to incorporate more native-like colloquial phrases into your everyday speech.  

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify and practice linguistic features of natural spoken English 
• Improve  English listening comprehension ability and listenership  (listenership = body movement, eye contact, short acknowledging phrases like uh uh)
• Reflect on and refine personal learning strategies with regard to natural spoken English 
• Understand and use idiomatic English and phrasal verbs 
• Expand conversational strategies for social situations ex: interrupting, agreeing/disagreeing, questioning, expressing doubt