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Level 3-4

Listening and Speaking

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Course Overview

Level
Level 3-4
Course Code
PT34-LS
Status
Active

Course Description

This course helps students improve their speaking fluency and their ability to listen and understand. Students learn new vocabulary, expressions, and conversation strategies. What students learn in this class will help them function better in daily situations.

Course Emphasis

  • Listening - 50%
  • Vocabulary - 10%
  • Speaking - 30%
  • Pronunciation - 10%

Course Books and Materials


Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Understands level-appropriate* text.
    1. Understands explicit main ideas.
    2. Understands explicit major details.
    3. Identifies speaker's purpose.
  2. Effectively implements listening strategies.
    1. Connects content to background knowledge.
    2. Connects context to meaning.
    3. Listens for specific information.
  3. Produces level-appropriate* speech.
    1. Narrates/describes in present tense across a variety of familiar and general topics.
    2. Narrates/describes in past and future across some familiar and general topics with some success.
    3. Actively participates in conversations through proper responses.
    4. Creates groups of sentences that are connected in meaning and purpose.
    5. Asks and answers a limited variety of questions.
    6. Uses correct basic syntax.
    7. Uses stress correctly in words and sentences.
    8. Pauses when appropriate.
    9. Uses correct intonation.
  4. Effectively implements speaking strategies.
    1. Uses circumlocution to clarify meaning.
    2. Repeats or rephrases when appropriate.
  5. Acquires new vocabulary.
    1. Recognizes high frequency general vocabulary.
    2. Understands high frequency general vocabulary.
    3. Uses high frequency general vocabulary.
    4. Infers meaning of unfamiliar words by using background knowledge.

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