The course is designed for English major freshmen in order to achieve reading ability at the elementary level (B1). Specifically, the course helps students develop reading skills such as reading for main ideas, reading for detail information, distinguishing topic and key words, critical thinking skills, guessing meanings of words in context, and word analysis. In addition, to help students become familiar with the self-study and standardized PET exam format, this course provides important reading strategies and skills in preparation for this exam.

Listening-Speaking 5 is designed for English majored students at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education, who are in the first semester of their third year, to achieve the upper-intermediate to advanced level of English listening and speaking skills, or level B2+ in the CEFR accordingly.

This course is designed for HCMUTE English majored students at upper-intermediate level to achieve low-advanced level (equivalent to B2 –CEFR) in listening and speaking. It really reflects a thoroughly integrated academic listening and speaking spectrum. The purposeful integration of critical thinking and an enhanced focus on academic skills such as making inferences, analysing, synthesizing, problem-solving, note-taking and test-taking helps students develop strategies for success in the classroom and on standardized tests. Besides, the productive tasks in the course can galvanize content, language and critical thinking skills.

This course is designed to help English majors at HCMUTE progress their listening and speaking skill to the upper-intermediate level (equivalent to B1+ - CEFR). It provides students with opportunities to enhance their academic oral communication skills, such as listening and responding to the authentic broadcasts, short lectures, and long conversations, and taking good notes.  They then discuss or debate the issues mentioned in the listening tasks. Besides, an introduction to public speaking is included, with a focus on speaking to inform, which helps develop students’ confidence in delivering effective informative speech.