The course is designed to provide students with the English Language Proficiency they need for living and feeling comfortable in an English-speaking environment. The course aims to provide students with skills in the following:
- spoken functional grammar
- language articulation and fluency
- general writing and journal keeping
-elementary reading and listening:
conversations via living situations
Living English: Intermediate
During the course, students further develop communication and literacy skills to a level where they can function effectively in an English-speaking environment. The course includes:
- study and analysis of written and spoken functional grammar
- language articulation and fluency
- writing skills:essay writing, written appropriateness
- Reading skills: skimming, scanning, comprehensive reading, stories and novels
- Reading skills: note-taking, lecture/tutorial comprehension
- speaking skills: language choice and power, oral presentations
Living English: Advanced
This course will further develop all intermediate skills and has a particular focus on advanced skills in the areas of spoken and written English. The course includes:
- study and analysis of complex lexical and grammatical features in context
- oral presentations, spontaneous talks, discussions, argumentations
- intensive writing: essays, reports, letters
- reading skills: speed reading, news report, academic journal/ texts
- listening comprehension: information in-take/ out-put from various sources, interpretation of the meanings behind the language use from raw texts
日常英语:初级
这部分课程旨在为学生提供一种可以边讲边听边学且较为舒适的英语环境。
课程通过生活情景模拟对话帮助学生锻造:
- 功能性的口语语法
- 较为清晰和流畅的口语
- 初步的听力和阅读能力
日常英语:中级
课程内容主要还是在英语的语言环境中进一步有效地发展学生的沟通和阅读能力的水平。
该课程包括:
- 对书面和口头的语法使用进行分析学习
- 进一步提高发音的清晰度和语言交流的流畅度
- 写作技巧:写作练习,进行恰当的书面表达技巧
- 阅读技能:对故事和小说的进行阅读,扫读,通篇详细阅读练习
- 阅读技巧:做笔记,对讲座或教程的内容进行联系上下文的理解
- 说话技巧:学习语境中语言表达的选择和提升表达能力,进行适当演讲
日常英语:
本课程将把口语和写作作为重点进一步发展所有中级的日常英语使其达到日常用语的转化。
该课程包括:
- 在文章段落中联系上下文来研究和分析复杂的词汇和语法的意义和用法
- 进行演讲,讲座,讨论,辩论,锻炼语言表达能力
- 密集的进行文章,报告,信件的写作,提升书面表达能力
- 阅读技巧:进行新闻报道、学术期刊的阅读理解
- 听力理解:学习联系语言环境,从而理解所听到的各种信息的真正含义。