Transcript Sophomore Oral Practice

Oral Practice
4-year College
Senior students
Fall semester
Textbook:
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Judith Tanka, Linda R. Baker. Interactions 2. Listening/ Speaking.
Silver Edition. McGraw-Hill, ELT. 2007.
• ISBN 978-007-125824-1
Professor: Ludmila Kudrevatykh
Learning Activities
• The course provides intensive practical experience and activities in
oral training in the low-intermediate level. This is a listening-andspeaking course. During this course students improve their fluency
in various conversational situations. They put all their emphasis on
practicing functional, lexical and grammatical skill in a meaningful
context through personalization.
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In the discussion room the students give opinions and reasons,
compare and contrast things and events, analyze appropriate and
inappropriate topics for conversations, interpret photos, make valid
inferences, discuss polite complaints, etc. A great deal of attention is
paid to the development of students’ skills to speak freely and
fluently about lifestyles, education, money, job and careers in
Taiwan and in other countries.
Course Methods
• Audio practice
• partner and small group speaking practice
• free communication
Lesson plan (in weeks)
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Preview: Course introduction
Unit 1: Education and Student Life
Unit 1 (cont): Comparing University Systems in
Different Countries
Unit 1 (cont): Comparing and Contrasting; Describing
map locations
Unit 2: City Life
Unit 2 (cont): Talking about Statistics
Unit 2 (cont): Requesting and Giving Directions
Review: Units 1 – 2
Midterm Oral Test
Lesson plan
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Preview
Unit 3: Business and Money
Unit 3 (cont): Talking about Managing Money
Unit 4: Jobs and Professions
Unit 4 (cont): Talking about careers
Unit 5: Lifestyles Around the World
Unit 5 (cont): Comparing Lifestyles in Different
Countries
Review: Units 3 - 5
Final Oral Test
Requirements and Grading:
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Attendance (presence in class) – 25%
participation (classroom activity, homework) - 25%
Midterm test – 25%
Final test – 25%
• Attention: Missing more than 12 hours (6 weeks) a
semester is a mandatory failure
Chapter 1:
Education and Student Life
• Colleges and Universities in the USA
• Degrees in most North American Universities (BA, MA,
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PhD)
Types of Courses: lecture course, discussion section, lab
Requirements: midterm, final test, test papers
Plagiarism
Chapter 1:
Education and Student Life
• Role-Play: Making, accepting and refusing invitations
• 1. Invite your partner to a foreign-language film. Accept
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or refuse the invitation.
2. invite your friend to a holiday party.
Invite your friend to dinner at an expensive restaurant to
celebrate your birthday.
Chapter 2:
City Life
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Student Housing Offices roommates, dormitories
Opening a phone conversation: functions and expression
Note:
-ask for your classmate by name
-identifyb yourself
Say why your are calling
Give the message
-use correct expressions for ending conversations
Chapter 2:
City Life
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Neighborhood:
- watch meeting
-use uotside lights
-Don’t buy cheap locks
-Use backlights as well
Chapter 2:
City Life
• Role-play
• Work in pairs
• Discuss the following with your partner:
• -do your live in an apppartment?
• -what’s your responsibilities?
Chapter 3:
Business and Money
• Borrowing Money
• Is it easy to manage your money?
• What do you do when you need your money?
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Practice expressions of advise:
-can you give me some advise?
-what should I do?
What do you recommend?
Chapter 3:
Business and Money
• Role-play:
• -Give suggestions to your friend if s/he cannot manage
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her money
-Ask your friend advise how to get money back from the
department store
-Give your friend advise about safer place to keep money
Chapter 3:
Business and Money
• Entrepreneurs:
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-Jeff Bezos
-Bill Gates
Jerry Yang
-Anita Roddock
-Frederick Smith
Unit 4:
Jobs and Professions
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What is an international student?
How to find a perfect job?
What would you sacrifice to get your perfect job?
What to do if you dicover you hate your job?
Is it common to go to college and have jobs at the same
time?
Unit 4:
Jobs and Professions
• Apologizing and Reconciling
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Role-play
-You forgot your friend’s birthday
-you came to work late
-you had a lod party and your neighbors are very upset
with you
Unit 4:
Jobs and Professions
• Discuss the following:
• -What is the difference between a service economy and
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a manufacturing economy?
-How has the American job market changed?
-Why will there be more health care jobs in the future?
• A new supermarket is opening in the neighborhood. The
company needs 4 people for job opening. What would
you do?
Chapter 5:
Lifestyles Around the World
• Discuss the following:
• What is a single mother or a single father?
• What kinds of challenges do you think single parents
face?
• Do you sometimes argue with your parents? Do you
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think their ideas are old-fashioned?
At what age does a woman/s time to have a baby runout?
Would you look into raising a baby by yourself?
Chapter 5:
Lifestyles Around the World
• Asking for a favor and responding:
• Could you do me a favor?
• Could I ask you for a favor?
• Would you mind…?
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Role-play:
-Ask your classmate if you can copy her lectures
-Ask your neighbor if she can feed your cat for 3 days
-Ask a co-worker if you can borrow 10 dollars
Chapter 5:
Lifestyles Around the World
• Discuss the following:
• With both fathers and mothers working, what problems
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do families come across?
What are advantages and disadvantages of programs to
help working people?
What are the problems of a retired person living on
Social security?
How would a teenager girl feel that her parents treat her
like a baby?
Is it the government’s responsibility to take care of
people when they retire?
Chapter 5:
Lifestyles Around the World
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What is the average life expectancy in your country?
What is GDP (gross domestic product)?
Name 5 countries with the highest GDP.
Name 5 countries that have lowest GDP.
The countries with the lowest GDP have the largest
number of children per woman. Why? How would you
explain that?