About This Course

Develops your listening and speaking skills in a variety of situations while expanding your vocabulary and improving pronunciation.

Course Objectives

You will work towards the following learning outcomes:

Speaking

• Start and end informal conversations appropriately
• Pay and respond to compliments
• Give and react to different types of news
• Express preferences
• Take turns in informal conversation.
• Give a short presentation
• Tell an anecdote
• Ask for and provide clarification
• Put forward proposals
• State your opinions
• Describe changes
• Agree and disagree appropriately
• Make future predictions
• Express regret

Listening

• Show interest when listening.
• Deal with fast, colloquial speech
• Understand the main points of news bulletins
• Infer information not given
• Guess the meaning of new words
• Use background knowledge to aid understanding
• Identify the relationship between speakers
• Identify grammatical meaning through an awareness of weak forms
• Identify key words and phrases through an awareness of stressed and unstressed words

Course Content

The course book is Clockwise Advanced Students's Book (Oxford University Press). Your teacher will select the most relevant material from the book and supplement it to make lessons relevant and stimulating.

Demonstrating Progress

Your teacher will give you a number of assessed tasks based on the core objectives of the course. They will grade you for each task and from this, your homework and course tests, your teacher will be able to advise you about your progress and suggest a suitable course for the next semester. For semester B courses your performance and teacher’s recommendation will determine whether you move to the next level.

You receive an attendance certificate when you have completed your first term, and a report when you have completed both Term A and Term B as well as a course completion certificate if you attend at least 75% of lessons and complete assessments successfully.