This course aims to continue training students
to speak English and develop their listening and speaking skills, in addition
to the student’s participation in different activities that give each student
an opportunity to practice speaking in English, as well as understanding
various conversations with different English accents and interacting with what
they hear. Moreover, this course focuses on providing the student with
different skills and speaking strategies that can be used, such as the ability
to start and end a conversation in a correct and professional way, and by using
different expressions, each according to the context and place, which vary
between formal and less formal, as well as other speaking strategies such as
asking questions to maintain a conversation. Besides developing the students’ ability
to express and defend their personal opinions using advanced vocabulary , good
language, and new different expressions of agree and disagree in an academic
and advanced way.
Intended learning outcomes
After passing this course, the students would
be able to:
Start and end an English conversation in a
natural way
Interact with what he/she hears from
conversations in English
Maintain the conversation by asking follow-up
questions
Expressing personal opinions towards various
topics, whether by) agree or disagree)
Formulate different conversations in
different contexts such as (in a restaurant, while shopping, visiting the
doctor...etc.)
Criticize and make different complaints about
different situations
Negotiate
and reach an agreement with the speaker
Describes, analyse and give a comprehensive
summary of their favourite movie or TV show using advanced expressions.
Teaching and learning methods
This course is taught through practical
lectures in its entirety, where specialized books and websites are used in
teaching listening and speaking skills to non-native English speaking students.
The activities used are diversified to include interactive activities, games
and activities that include questions that students answer and allow them to
speak English for as long as possible. It also includes audio activities where
students listen to different topics and interact with them by answering
questions and related exercises
Methods of assessments
Students are evaluated
through their participation in various activities during the academic lectures,
in addition to their first midterm exam and final exam, which both include
personal questions and interactive conversations among students to assess their
ability to communicate in English.