Learn how to effectively communicate in English and improve your conversational language skills. Do you want to communicate with native speakers without any barriers? Let Chinese and foreign teachers and more than 50 friends from the United States, Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and Colombia take you on a different English learning journey.
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Are you finding it difficult to start the conversation, or find the right words when communicating in English? Do you know how to start and end conversations in a polite way? Do you want to learn more about American, British, Canadian, Australian, South Korean, Colombian, and Chinese cultures? If so, you’ve come to the right course!
The most important function of language is communication. In communication, we need to know how to start a topic that the other party is interested in, answer other people's questions, and complete a conversation naturally and smoothly. This course selects 8 themes and is taught by more than 50 teachers and students of all ages from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Colombia, and China, using the most authentic expressions and the purest English in real scenes, Take you to talk about all aspects of daily life and study.
This course is divided into eight units, each unit has a theme, namely:
- Introduction and exchange of personal information
- Our family and friends
- Food and meals
- Purpose and methods of English learning 5.
Holiday activities and unforgettable experiences 6.
Interests and hobbies
- Emotional expression
- Stay healthy
Each topic consists of more than ten dialogues and group discussions, foreign teachers’ introduction to Chinese and Western cultural differences, Chinese teachers’ explanations of key vocabulary and sentence patterns, listening comprehension exercises and oral tests. Through study and practice, you will be able to converse freely with your English-speaking friends and discuss any issues related to the topic. There are many ways to study this course. English learners can continuously accumulate language materials in the process of repeatedly listening and reading dialogues, and practice dialogues with friends around you or learners in the same course; English teachers can choose appropriate topics in this course and organize students to Listening and speaking training, organize efficient classes. Maybe you can't understand the entire content of each conversation, you just need to understand the general idea. As the course progresses, you will understand more and more. Let's take a leap in English listening and speaking together.
This course was funded by the Hong Kong Wei Sun Education Fund and Google during the production process. We would like to express our gratitude to you.
This course is part of the English Communication Skills Professional Certificate .
What you'll learn
- Develop conversational English skills
- Listen to dialogues and group discussions to better understand spoken English and cultural norms
- Learn key words and expressions
- Engage in activities to help you better understand the meaning of conversations
- Learn to initiate your own conversations in English on a variety of topics
