2014_15
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Facultat de Lletres
A A 
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Grau d'Anglès (2009)
 Assignatures
  DESTRESES COMUNICATIVES: SPEAKING AND LISTENING II
   Continguts
Tema Subtema
Listening skills To include:
- listening for the 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
- agreeing and disagreeing
- speculating and hypothesising
- practice in producing phonological features
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

2. Making a living

3. Education
Theory - Discourse features and strategies to include:
problem-solution discourse patterns, strategies for active listening, ellipsis and substitution, concession and contrast, agreeing and disagreeing, conversation-building and modifying comments.
- Introduction to IPA symbols and problems for Spanish and Catalan speakers
NB: The exact course contents are subject to change and will depend on time limitations and students´ needs.