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DFW AE Listening/Speaking

duration: 4 weeks
price: free

About this Course

This course focuses on advanced English skills for advanced English learners.

The Student Resources page on the TLC Website contains policies, forms, syllabi, and other useful information for students. A few examples of the policies found on Student Resources include: Make-up Work, Academic Integrity, Attendance, Satisfactory Academic Progress, etc. The Student Resources page is available at www.thelanguagecompany.com/student-resources.

Learning modules

  • Week 1
    • Video: Body Language Expert Explains How to Show Confidence

    • Partners: Dialogues Idioms 1-4

    • Finish Idioms Set 4 Once in a Blue Moon

    • "Speaking with Confidence" practice your class presentation 2-3 min. (Short-Term career/educational goal and use of 3 idioms)

    • ABC Descriptive Adjectives (choose 2 to describe yourself and 2 to describe your partner)

    • Review Course Objectives: Discussion of Proposal Design

    • Brainstorm Proposal Ideas; Mapping/Presentation Key Points

    • Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED (see video viewing focus question)

    • Practice Body Language and Use at Least 3 Idioms from Sets 1-4. Share experiences with class.

    • Impromptu -4 best advice points from video How to Have a Better Conversation.

  • Week 2
    • Presentation Rubric (review)

    • email Proposal, due 5 PM 12/13.

    • The 3,000-year history of the hoodie | TED Talk (see 10 questions/video viewing)

    • Proposal Presented to Class: 12/14

    • Vocabulary - adjectives: characteristics of yourself and classmates D-E-F-G

  • Week 3
    • Vocabulary quiz D-G positive adjectives

    • Visual Presentation

    • Advice that you would give to the next advanced class

    • 12/20 preparation (practice focusing on pronunciation) presentation

    • Prepare (in mirror) (or live audience) present with confidence

  • Week 4
    • AE L/S Mastery of Objectives

    • Summary of Body Language - Speaking with Confidence

    • Activity 3-2-1 Learning this session

    • Idioms Review (1-30_

About the Instructor

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Onna Seibold

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