The course is designed to enable students to
obtain the detail of spoken English discourses and to acquire the overall
meaning of spoken English at intermediate level: comprehension of main ideas
and details: literal and interpretive comprehension of dialogues, narrative,
descriptive, and expository types of text in the most efficient way in order to
understand connected discourses spoken natively at normal speed in ordinary
communicative situation. Class activities include listening to audio and
watching a video as input, discussing listening exercises, and giving listening
tasks (individually / in pairs / groups) which emphasize note-taking skills.