OSAC International College

English Course – Speaking, Listening and Writing

Whenever you need to communicate clearly at school, work or sometimes just find it hard to get your point across to your friends or colleagues, taking this course will help you improve the essential speaking, listening and writing skills that you use every day.

You want to learn to listen carefully, to ask and get information and advice or to become a better speaker. Perhaps you want to improve your writing skills to take notes or to tell others how you feel.

Come and sign up for this course and our practice questions will help you. When your skills improve, your confidence level will improve too. There will be a lot of role – play in this course.
At the end of the course, you will:

Learn to speak effectively with confidence
Improve listening and writing skills
Improve job search and job interview skills by writing good emails and letters
Able to give oral presentation

Module Contents

Lesson 1: Game
Successful conversation – Small Talk
Introduction of yourself.
Making conversation – Note the expression and tone of voice
How to start a conversation with strangers?
Making suggestions

Lesson 2: Writing about your Best Friend – use of expressing opinions, descriptive adjectives, comparatives and superlatives and reported speech.
Conversation practice: At a Restaurant and Taking an order.
Speaking skills: By asking questions.
Making a telephone conversation.
Asking for a flavor and dropping by a friend’s house.

Lesson 3: Writing: exercises: Your Zodiac Sign and Yourself.
Never mind about believing in Zodiac Sign or not. This Zodiac sign exercise gives us a great opportunity to increase our vocabulary on personality and character adjectives. We use Zodiac Signs for students to talk about themselves. Students will improve their vocabulary in this active and fun way.
Speaking exercises: Showing Interest, At the chemist’s, At the doctor’s, At the post office.

Lesson 4: Discussion: The Law and the Crime, Shoplifting.
The students form groups to discuss this topic. Encourage students to share ‘their secrets’ as to whether they have steal things before. Get students to share if they knew anyone who shoplift and what these people like to steal. Students must debate if this action is right or wrong.
Role-cards to be handled out to students and each student must speak out their views on the role-cards

Game: Shoplifting Role-cards
1A

You are an old woman on a visit to the Prado museum in Madrid, and while no-one was looking you stuffed a small sketch by Picasso into your shopping bag. You are very scared.

You are a security guard in the Prado museum in Madrid, and you suspect an old woman of stuffing a small sketch by Picasso into her shopping bag while you weren't looking.

You have gone to Tescos to steal a couple of CDs because you knew one of the checkout girls at school and you reckon she won't say anything even if she notices.

You work on the checkout in Tescos and an old school friend has obviously got something stuffed under his jumper. You don't want to say anything, but you can see your boss coming your way...

You are the manager of the local branch of Tescos. You can see that there is something suspicious going on at one of the checkouts and have gone over to see what it is.

Lesson 5: All about Travel
Calling your travel agent, crossword puzzle on travel, vocabulary words on travel, Freeze ball game and Mr Bean in Room 426.
Your holidays – Write an email to your friend and tell him/her about your recent holidays.

Lesson 6: Patient vs Doctor:
Group the students into two groups – Patient and Doctor. Make one student a patient and the other a doctor. Cut the card and give to the students and they must not read each other’s card. Ask students to write out possible short dialogues to describe their illness to their doctor. The doctor will write dialogues to advise patients on their health problems.
Write an email to your teacher or boss and tell him/her you cannot attend school or go to work because you are ill. Tell him/her about your illness and symptoms.

Lesson 7: Discussion on Men and Women – Equal at Last?
Divide into men and women. This exercise helps to improve conversation skills using point of view methods. Use of agreeing words such as I think..., In my opinion..., I'd like to..., I'd rather..., I'd prefer..., The way I see it..., As far as I'm concerned..., If it were up to me..., I suppose..., I suspect that..., I'm pretty sure that..., It is fairly certain that..., I'm convinced that..., I honestly feel that, I strongly believe that..., Without a doubt,...,
Use of disagreeing words such as: I don't think that..., Don't you think it would be better..., I don't agree, I'd prefer..., Shouldn't we consider..., But what about..., I'm afraid I don't agree..., Frankly, I doubt if..., Let's face it, The truth of the matter is..., The problem with your point of view is that...
You may give reason and explanation words such as: To start with, The reason why..., That's why..., For this reason..., That's the reason why..., Many people think...., Considering..., Allowing for the fact that..., When you consider that...
Some pointer to help students: Yes, Women Are Now Equal To Men.

Many governments have both male and female representatives.
Many companies are now owned or managed by women.
A lot of progress has been made since the 1960s.
Television series now portray women as successful career makers.
Men now share in the raising of children and household responsibilities.
Many important laws have been passed to ensure equality in the workplace.
In many places, a married couple can choose whether the man or the women takes leave from work to look after the newly arrived baby.
People aren't discussing equality anymore. It has become a reality.
Have you ever heard of Margaret Thatcher?

Women still earn less than men in many work situations.
Women are still portrayed in a superficial manner in many television shows.
Look at international sporting. How many professional female leagues are as successful as their male counterparts?
Most governments still are made up in their majority of men.
We are having this debate because women are not equal. Otherwise, there would be no need to discuss the matter.
Women are often not given enough responsibility based on the possibility that they might become pregnant.
The number of sexual harassment suits have increased over the past 10 years.
Hundreds of years of history can't have been changed in a mere 30 odd years.
Have you ever watched Bay Watch?

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