Language and comprehension skills

Course Material

01 Listening skills

02 Managing listening and overcoming barriers to listening

03 Reading strategies, summarizing, sequencing, inferencing, comparing and contrasting

04 Concluding a presentation, giving suggestions and recommendations

05 Critical reading and SQ3R method

06 Pronunciation skills

07 Expressing opinions (debating current events) and oral synthesis of thoughts and ideas

08 Presentation skills, features of good presentations, different types of presentations

09 Listening to isolated sentences and speech extracts

10 Recognizing phonemes, phonemic symbols and syllables, pronouncing words correctly

11 Understanding and practicing stress patterns and intonation patterns in simple sentences

12 Comprehension skills

13 Drawing conclusions, self-questioning, problem-solving, relating background knowledge

14 Distinguishing between fact and opinion, finding the main idea, and supporting details

15 Text organizational patterns, investigating implied ideas, purpose and tone of the text

16 Different patterns of introducing a presentation, organizing arguments in a presentation

17 Tactics of maintaining interest of the audience, dealing with the questions of audience