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Contemporary English Language C1: Listening and Speaking

This course aims to help students develop and perfect their listening and speaking skills according to the C1 level through various activities including written or oral expression in the English language, while using more complex grammatical structures and richer vocabulary.

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Ivana V

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5 HOURS

5 LESSONS

Contemporary English Language C1: Listening and Speaking

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Course Overview


Through this course, students become capable of understanding and analysing more complex audio input, expressing themselves orally based on arguments, all with a higher level of grammatical correctness and automatism. This course is focused on practise of active and correct use of more complex grammatical structures and in speaking and comprehension practice (written and oral), as well as active use of more complex vocabulary. Students are offered a wide range of contemporary topics which they will familiarize themselves with through audio or video material. Students practise their listening skills through various comprehension check exercises including listening for gist, listening for specific information, listening in detail, inferential listening and listening for functional language. The listening material, as well as the additional written material will create the basis for forming students’ own opinions of the topics. Students are provided with handouts with glossaries and useful language structures for each topic to ease their way into expressing their ideas confidently. Special attention is dedicated to the students’ oral delivery and the ways in which it can be improved through pronunciation correction, vocabulary building and the use of complex sentences. The list of topics is not fixed and can be modified to suit the needs of the students.

Course Content


15 LESSONS

15 HOURS Total Length

Lesson 1

What Do I Desire?: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 2

The Pursuit of Happiness: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 3

The Psychology Behind Friendship: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 4

Do Video Games Contribute to Youth Violence?: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 5

The Power of Nothing?: How Does Meditation Work? Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 6

Should Soft Drugs Be Legalized?: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 7

The Great Work Myth or How Our Jobs Influence Our Lives: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 8

The Power of Nature: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 9

Is Using Animals in Medical Research Unethical?: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 10

Installation Art: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 11

Do Celebrities Make for Bad Role Models?: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 12

The Other Population Crisis: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 13

The Idea of Failure and Success as a Stumbling Block: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 14

Travel The Universe: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

Lesson 15

Is Human Cloning Justified?: Discussion, Listening and Speaking Exercises

60 minutes

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Educator

Ivana V

English Language Educator

Ivana has been teaching English professionally for over 10 years to students of all ages and backgrounds. She is dedicated to designing lessons that meet the needs, learning style and pace of the student.

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