Areej Abdulazeez Alsulaiman

Course Description

Course name and code: Listening 1, 117 Najd

Contact hours: 3

Credit hours: 3

Course material:

- Interactions 1listening and speaking

Summary:

Listening 1 is a listening course which aims at developing students’ abilities to understand

spoken English, grasp the main ideas in given speeches, answer questions about them and take

down notes of their major aspects. Different types of situations are provided through

cassettes played in class. Students should be able to follow up with these cassettes and give

answers to various kinds of questions. These include objective questions as well as

information questions. All required skills for grasping native speakers’ language are taught

throughout the course. For example, students are taught how to observe the pronunciation of

different words as well as identical/similar pronunciations of words, contractions in spoken

language, expressions and idioms used in spoken English as well as words with more than one

meaning in different contexts.

Class assignments: The students are always required to participate in class by giving the

right answers to the questions of the material discussed in class.

Objectives:

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

1- understand the language on a cassette being played

2- grasp the main ideas of different situations on cassettes

3- take down notes of these main ideas

4- answer different types of questions after listening to the cassette

5- check that they have given the right answer or taken down the right notes after listening

to the cassette for the second time

Grading system:

Students are given 2 midterm exams & a final exam to evaluate their progress. The exams are

given as follows:

Midterm 1: Midterm 1 includes all the

chapters, tasks and exercises taught in class from the beginning of classes until that time. The

exam will be marked out of 25.

Midterm 2: It will cover all what is

taught from midterm 1 until midterm 2. It will be marked out of 25.

Final exam: This exam will be given at the end of the semester. It will include all the chapters,

tasks and exercises of Interactions 1. It is marked out of40.