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Listening-Speaking 2 is designed to aid English majors of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education to progress toward intermediate level of listening and speaking skills (level B1). The meaningful activities, such as presentation, simulation, debate, research, and public announcement create more opportunities for students to practice speaking skills as well as to be more creative. Moreover, academic skills like deduction, summary, note-taking and doing test are applied to help students familiarized with strategies in examinations.

This course is designed for English majored students to achieve upper-intermediate level (equivalent to B2 – CEFR) in writing. The course aims to help students get acquainted with organization and components of an essay through understanding the structure of a paragraph as well as similarities between a paragraph and an essay. Besides, students will be introduced to practical and efficient approaches to acquire the skills, strategies, language and knowledge that are necessary for succeeding in writing essay types such as Descriptive Essay, Comparison Essay, Cause and Effect Essay, and Classification Essay. Students are also given opportunities to discuss their ideas and share their experiences, which helps not only improve their writing skills but also obtain some necessary academic skills to promote learner’s autonomy, critical thinking, presentation skills and teamwork skills which are essential tools for their college success.

This course aims to help first year English majors reach the upper-intermediate level of their reading ability (B2). Through exposure to reading texts of different academic topics and text types and engagement in a variety of reading tasks, students are given chance to practice not only basic reading skills but also advanced ones such as making inferences, identifying tone and mood, recognizing the writer’s attitude and bias, identifying source of information, recognizing cause and effect, and reading statistical data. In addition, this course aims to enrich students’ vocabulary resource and develop their critical thinking. Last but not least, through the engagement in classroom activities and homework assignments, students are able to build up their skills of communication, presentation, individual work and teamwork.