Speaking for Everyday Situations D

Level
Intermediate
Term
Winter
Class Time
Mon & Thurs Period 2
Instructor
O'Neill
Description
his course continues from Speaking for Everyday Situations A, B & C. This course teaches students how to communicate in contexts outside university classrooms or company meeting rooms. The focus will be to develop students’ fluency when discussing everyday topics and performing everyday tasks. The teacher will also instruct students on how native speakers adapt and organize their language depending on who they are speaking to. Students can expect to spend the majority of class-time speaking to classmates and the teacher.​
Schedule
  1. Course Introduction + Unit 5 – Learning languages
  2. Unit 6 – Talking about money and life
  3. Unit 6 – Talking about favors and lending money
  4. Unit 7 – Talking about interesting questions
  5. Unit 7 – Talking about topics for debate
  6. Assessment – Units 6 and 7
  7. Unit 8 – Talking about your country
  8. Unit 8 – Talking about your career
  9. Unit 9 – Talking about experiences and anecdotes
  10. Unit 9 – Talking about where people should live
  11. Assessment – Units 8 and 9
  12. Unit 10 – Talking about what makes you laugh
  13. Unit 10 – Talking about what makes you cry
  14. Assessment – Unit 10
Homework
Students will be required to attend the self-access center once a week to practice what they have learned in class and to improve their speaking fluency.
Materials
Global - Upper Intermediate Coursebook
Lindsay Clandfield & Rebecca Robb Benne
Macmillan
ISBN-10: 0230033210
ISBN-13: 978-0230033214
Grading
Grading is based on the students’ completion of in-class assessments, participation, and self-access visits.
Assessment 1: 25%
Assessment 2: 25%
Assessment 3: 25%
Self-access: 15%
Participation: 10%