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Spoken English B1 – Semester I
Course Outline
• Why is English important?
• We will improve on the English you already know.
• We will try different situations to practice English.
• Speaking is no.1, but also reading, listening and
grammar are needed to improve.
• Speaking is the best way to communicate abroad,
with foreigners, and in a work environment.
The Course Book
Spoken English B1 I Grading
• Mid-Term Test: 30%Paper Test 30%
• Weekly tests 10%
• Weekly speaking 10%
• Final Semester Test: 50 %Paper Test 25%
Pair Conversation 25%
PLUS
Homework Sheets every week
Higher grade:lots of energy and imagination, speaking a lot in class,
never late, all homework done on time, great team member
Pass grade:Interested in speaking, rarely late, good energy, helpful in a
team, homework done
Failure grade:Not interested in the lesson, late to class, low effort,
no home work done
Grades and Assessment
How will I grade this class?
Use of English
Attendance
Mid –term Test
Good
Ideas
Team working
Did you
Improve?
Final Test
Confidence
How I grade this Class….
Classroom Effort (including attendance)
Mid-term and Weekly Tests
Final Test
Topics
Food
Family Life
Job Interviews
Money
Change your life
Transport
Stereotypes
Success and Failure
Modern Manners
Sport
Presentations
Speech patterns
Story Telling
Giving Advice
Semester I – Grammar Points
1. First Meeting: My Presentation, Student
Introduction, Course Outline
2. Talk about Happy and Unhappy times: simple
past and continuous sentence speech
3. Comparing the Past to Now: How have you
changed over the years
4. What kind are parent will you be: Compare
yourself to your parents, Flash test
5. Review the Present Perfect tense in speech and
link to past and present
6. Comparing the present perfect with the simple
past
7. Feelings: Discuss your feelings in difference
situations and prepare a speech
8. Mid-term Speech and Paper Test
Spoken English B1 – Semester I
9. Reading Hand-out from Teacher on Travel
10. When will you die: Plan your whole life and guess what will happen to you
11. Jobs Interviews: Plan a mock interview in teams and interview each other
12. Are you an optimist or a pessimistic? Use phrase opposites to describe yourself
Spoken English B1 – Semester I
Spoken English B1 – Semester I
13. Healthy and Unhealthy: Talk about body parts
and how much you should or shouldn’t do
14. Presentation Practice: Speech stress and
Gesturing Skills I
15. Presentation Practice: Speech stress and
Gesturing Skills II
16: Final Speech test and Written Paper test
Spoken English B1 – Semester I
How would you describe Japanese people
to a foreign person?