COMMUNICATION SKILLS 1

Course Description

This course provides an opportunity to practice and acquire the skills needed in conversations to express your thoughts and opinions clearly in English. Effective communication patterns are key elements in speech. The goal of the course is to provide opportunities to extend and develop general conversational skills by completing tasks that require the speaker to exchange information. The speaking course follows a theme-based and a task-based learning approach. The steps to develop spoken language on this course include visual stimulus to evoke a response, situational tasks to allow for further discussion and input, vocabulary building worksheets to focus on specific topic-related language and questions on specific topics that evoke in-depth discussions and debates to improve overall fluency. The easy to more difficult tasks in each unit aim to build both confidence and competence in spoken English.