Description:

Students develop their skills using lectures, presentations, and assigned readings. Oral presentation practice and development are featured. Listening skills include identifying mood and tone, anticipation of topics etc. Prerequisite: Acceptance to the ELI program.

Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Speaking
• Ask questions based on lectures, presentations, and assigned readings
• Initiate and participate in formal and informal exchanges (i.e. conversations and discussions)
• Synthesize information and articulate a new point of view giving reasons and evidence for support
• Demonstrate oral proficiency of the grammatical structures listed in corresponding writing level outcomes
• Use vocabulary appropriate to ever more complex topics
• Oral presentation outcomes
• Brainstorm, outline, and record on notecards the ideas to be presented
• Prepare clear visual aids to support the main points of the presentation
• Assess accurately the audience’s knowledge of special vocabulary and concepts of topic
• Have a clear organization (intro, body, conclusion)Introduce and explain main points and vocabulary through the use of visual aids
• Explain key terminology and concepts
• Speak clearly with correct pronunciation
• Elicit questions from audience to determine their understanding
• Respond adequately to questions from the audience
• Listening
• Show appropriate eye contact and listening signals
• Take useful notes from lectures and/or videotaped programs or movies, identifying main ideas and supporting details
• Answer factual questions based on lecture/program notes
• Derive meaning via grammatical structure (distinguishing between comparative, superlative, conditional, sequence of events, cause and effect, and perfect modals in sentence structure)
• Identify speakers from taped lectures
• Anticipate topics and questions
• Make use of observed gestures, emphasis, and tools in interpreting the exact meaning of a speaker’s message
• Summarize orally
• Identify mood and tone