Speaking 1

 

Course Description

171 Speaking 1

Sana Al-zahrani [e-mail]

 

Course Code: Najd 171                                

Credit Hours: 4

Days: Mon 10-12, Tues 10-12

Course description: The speaking component is designed to equip the students with pre-intermediate conversational skills. Its primary objective is to get students to speak and to communicate fluently and accurately without inhibition. Its secondary objectives are to develop the students’ ability in making sentences, asking questions and to improve their pronunciation and vocabulary. The following topics for speaking are recommended:

1. Introducing oneself.

2. Talking with friends about the weather, the seasons.

3. Telling stories of childhood.

4. Talking about social activities at home, at school, at college, or at work.

5. Discussing issues related to nature. In addition to the above topics, where the student expresses herself and talks about issues that are close to his heart and mind, it is recommended that role play and certain other simulations be undertaken. These may include:

6. Making a phone call.

7. Describing locations.

8. Interviewing potential flat mates.

9. Ordering in a restaurant.

10. Booking a room in hotel.

11. Talking to customs.

12. Returning items and getting a refund.

 

Skills and Strategies:

 

·               Using appropriate paralinguistic expressions while speaking

·               Making requests, answering requests

·               Apologizing, refusing, complaining

·               Contributing to opening and closing moves in exchanges

·               Making invitations and declining invitations

·               Using some very brief written notes when speaking

·               Managing to maintain one’s audience interested

·               Giving instructions

·               Respecting the principles of politeness and using appropriate politeness formulae.

 

Subskills: 

 

 

·               Use of appropriate modal auxiliaries

·               Use of tenses for narration, description, persuasion, exposition, and instruction

·               Appropriate use of prepositions, adjectives and adverbs

·               Good use of hesitation, fillers, tags, and short forms

·               Ability to sound formal, informal, joking, jovial, sad, depressed, etc.

·               Use of idiomatic expression appropriately

·               Use of paraphrase, circumlocution, borrowing, and translation as achievement strategies

 

Text Book:

 INTERACTIONS 1 LISTENING/SPEAKING, Middle East Gold Edition.