AN10002BA / AN1001OMA / AN18002BA SKILLS DEVELOPMENT: SPEAKING AND LISTENING
Spring 2017 – 1st year BA / OMA – Venue(s): Main 109 – Time(s): 10-12 a.m. Tu
Instructor: Pál Csontos -- Office Hours: see institute homepage – e-mail:
Texts & Cassettes: Burke, David. Street Talk-1: How to Speak and Understand American Slang. L.A.: Optima Books, 1991.
Laird, Elizabeth. Faces of the USA. NewYork: Longman, 1987.
Kövecses, Zoltán.. Bridge One: British and American English Differences for Learners of English with Exercises. Budapest:
LIBROTRADE Kft. - MPL Könyv Kft., 2000.
McClintock, John and Börje Stern. Let’s Listen! Oxford: Heinemann, 1993.
Parisi, Joseph. Poets in Person: A Listener`s Guide. Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, 1992.
Radványi-Székács. English for Business and Everyday Use. Budapest: Akadémiai kiadó, 2001.
---. Tanuljunk nyelveket! Angol 2. Budapest: Hungaroton, 1984.
Living on Earth at: http://www.loe.org/
Recommended: The English Yardstick Exam at: http://ieas.unideb.hu/index.php?p=911
Course Description and Requirements: This seminar course will offer practice possibilities and practical instructions for students whose aim is to develop/improve their listening skills and to prepare for the EYE. Accordingly, text types covered will include interviews, news broadcasts, talk shows, reports, short stories related by individual narrators, excerpts from longer texts (books on tape, soundtracks of video recordings, etc.), and language book exercises. The skills to be tested and, as a result, advanced will comprise listening for gist, listening for specific information, inferring speakers’ attitude and/or opinion, and focusing on relevant and appropriate information. The pool of task types will consist of gap-filling, guided note-taking, short answer questions, multiple choice and fill-in-the-grid/table exercises. The practice material will be presented to the students in the form of handouts, transparencies on OHP, and electronic images projected from think-pad pages. The results of midterm/end-term tests and class participation will be considered for the final grade.
Schedule of Assignments:
Week 1 (2/21) Introduction, orientation, the mechanics of the course. The EYE. Demo: [2 side2 29:30] “Pronunciation” (gap-filling)
H.A.: Aspects of listening
Week 2 (2/28) EYE-discussion; Hearing and listening: the importance of listening skills; Brain and speech
“John Bell’s Funeral” “The Girl and the Bottle of Ink” (multiple) “Spelling” (short answers) “The Family” (gist)
Week 3 (3/7) [1 side1 8:45]“The Smuggler & the Customs Officer” (multiple) “The Johnsons’ House” (fill-in) “Vocab” (short
answers) “On the phone” (gist)
Week 4 (3/14) [1 side1 18:30] “Interview” “Computer Club” (multiple) “Grammar” (short answers) “Do You Know Yourself?”
(gist) “Picasso” “M. Braggs” (multiple)
Week 5 (3/21) [1 side1 27:00] “Jobs” (fill-in) “The Right Response” “When Sarah Became Ill” (multiple) “Speaking Styles” (short
answers) “In the Park” (gist)
Week 6 (3/28) Midterm Test
Week 7 (4/4) [1 side2 18:15] “Jim’s Two Jobs” (multiple) “Filling in Landing Cards” (fill-in) “The Right Picture” (match-the-pic)
[1 side2 30:40] “Buying a House” (gist)
Week 8 (4/11) Consultation week (no class)
Week 9 (4/18) [1 side2 33:05] “On the Street” “At the Beach” (true/false) “Life Styles” (match-the-pic) “On the Phone” (gist)
Week 10 (4/25) LOE texts/tests > “An Immigrant’s Life” [1 side2 41:40] “A Lunch Menu” (tick-the-item) “Polite Responses”
(multiple) [2 side1 00:40] “The Green Bag” (gist) “Benjamin Franklin” (specific)
Week 11 (5/2) LOE texts/tests > “Coasteering” [2 side1 05:35] “Correct Responses” (multiple) “The Hold-up” (multiple) “At the
Customs” (gist) “Elizabeth Blackwell” (specific)
Week 12 (5/9) LOE texts/tests > “Fishing” [2 side1 15:23] “Tom and the Diamond Ring” (multiple) “On the Phone” (gist)
“Alexander G. Bell” (specific) [2 side2 16:22] “The House Guest” (gap-filling) “G. Brooks” “David Goode” (short
answers) “The 2 Ronnies” (gist)
Week 13 (5/16) Endterm Test
Week 14 (5/23) Conclusion, evaluation.