About this Course
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Learning modules
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Week 1
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Tell the class what you understood from your classmate's weekend story. (Deliver verbal summaries of information).
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Listen/watch the video and deliver in class what you understood (Deliver verbal summaries of information)
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Watch and summarize video content. Deliver summary orally
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Find the main idea, find key points for supporting details and conclusion. Provide summary of the given paragraph
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Deliver summary of the paragraph provided
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Week 2
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Recognize & practice linking sound. Listen and determine which words are linking sound: consonant to consonant/consonant to vowel
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List words with vowel to vowel linking sound
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Practice linking. Listen & watch the video. Take notes of the linking words. Practice linking as heard.
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Listen and determine which words have linking sound
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Collocations with take. Listen to the conversation and identify what collocations are used
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Week 3
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Use the given "take" collocations in a sentence.
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Collocations with "break": Watch the video and pick collocations to use in a conversation with your partner
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Collocations with "catch": Use the given collocations in a sentence.
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Collocations with "catch": Watch the video and catch the meaning of the given collocations. Choose 4 collocations and use in a conversation
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I dentify all collocations in the paragraph. Produce sentences using the given collocations
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Polite requests/questions with modals. Give examples in different situations
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Week 4
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Polite requests/questions with modals. Prepare visual presentation
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Delivery of presentation on polite request with modals
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Oral application: Use modals for requests/questions in a given certain situation
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Vocabulary & definitions
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About the Instructor
Ruth Verona
Greetings from TLC of Fort Worth!Hello everyone. Ruth here. First I would like to mention, I love my job as an English teacher to students from different parts of the world (speakers of other languages). For many years, I used to work for International Companies (e.g. Honda Corporation) where part of my job was to train other employees including those from other countries. This is when I realized that I would love to focus on just teaching. So, I went back to school for my MA in Ed with focus on TESOL (adult). I realized this is where I belong to serve people. I am grateful for The Language Company to have given me the opportunity for the position.
Before TLC, I spent 2 years volunteering to teach English in Texas and abroad. I found that I have so much empathy for language learners. As a person who speaks different languages, fluent in 3, intermediate in 2, 3 of which I had to go to school to learn before immersion in the country of the language, I have learned to put myself in the position of my students. This has taught me to be more patient, to be more understanding, and to find strategies that could better help a learner with more difficulty than others. I found that learning languages is not just for self development, rather it is a way to expand our understanding for those who are learning other languages as well. Once again, I am forever grateful to have this experience and to be able to help other people from all over the world learn a language, just as I was helped by those who had taught me.
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