Updated (K49):
With this course (Intermediate Listening-Speaking), students will explore four interesting topics (Business, Behavioral Science, Developmental Psychology, and Science), and spontaneously improve their listening and speaking skills. Specifically, with activities like summarizing and making predictions, students will learn how to take good notes with different methods like charts and keywords, get better at giving presentations, and think more carefully. In addition, students will enhance their vocabulary skills such as understanding meaning from context, using dictionaries – words with multiple definitions, words with similar meanings, and word forms. Consolidating pronunciation knowledge such as syllable stress, unstressed syllables, sentence stress, and basic intonation patterns is also indispensable in this course.
Old Program:
This module equips students with essential listening and speaking skills in a wide range of daily communication contexts (both formal and informal). Students will have opportunities to practise using listening and speaking strategies on familiar topics, widen their lexical resources, and gain knowledge in pronunciation and intonation. Students are able to proactively participate in discussions, debates, and short presentations to improve the ability to communicate clearly and fluently. Students will also have practices in listening to a variety of texts to enhance their listening for gist and objectives of lectures or short presentations, then develop guessing and inferring skills for more complicated texts.