In this course, you will develop your English conversational skills that you can use to build your personal and professional relationships. Learning activities in this course will take place on Voxy, an engaging language learning platform that automatically adapts to your current level and your performance across reading, listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills so that every lesson is optimized for rapid improvement.
Each week is made up of engaging, short, task-based lessons that can be done anywhere, anytime. Lessons include content from the real world, so you will learn from dozens of real conversations about a variety of common topics that come up when meeting someone new, filling out a form, or just describing yourself to others, it is important to know how to share basic personal information about yourself. By the end of the course, you will feel confident starting conversations, introducing and describing yourself, and exchanging personal information.
Overview
Syllabus
- Course Introduction & Voxy Orientation
- This week, you will learn about this course and understand how to use Voxy's innovative platform.
- Greetings and Introductions
- This week is all about greeting people and introducing yourself to others. You also will learn how to ask how someone is doing and introduce other people.
- Describing Yourself
- This week is all about you! Learn how to describe where you are from, where you live, what languages you speak, or how old you are.
- Exchanging Personal Information
- This week you will practice how to exchange personal information, such as your name or contact information. You will learn how to fill out forms and give your information online as well.
- Final Tasks: Personal Information
- This week, you will use everything you learned to give personal information in written and spoken form.
Taught by
Anna Murray and Rebecca Payne-Passmore
