2022_23
Educational guide 
Faculty of Arts
A A 
english 
Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009)
 Subjects
  COMMUNICATION SKILLS: SPEAKING AND LISTENING II
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Listening skills To include:
- listening for gist
- listening for detail
-following extended speech
-using strategies that help understanding
-interpreting speaker's attitudes

Speaking skills To include:
- engaging in extended conversations
- participating in natural discourse
- expressing opinions and viewpoints
- giving detailed descriptions and accounts of experiences
- summarising
- reporting gathered information
- speculating and hypothesising
- practice in producing phonological features
- practice of giving various types of presentation
Topics for speaking and listening practice

A number of different topics will be followed and for each there will be a listening test and oral presentation.
1. Art and Literature

2. Around the World

3. Making a living and education

4. Conversation and anecdotes







Theory - Theory of speaking - presentation outlines and delivery
- Theory of listening - SIER model, what makes a good listener
- Introduction to IPA symbols and problems for Spanish and Catalan speakers
NB The exact content of the course is subject to change and depends on time constraints and the needs of the students.