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 using time, dates, and numbers naturally in your conversations. By the end of the course, you will feel confident saying times and dates, talking about numbers, and making plans.
Overview
Syllabus
- Course Introduction & Voxy Orientation
- This week, you will learn about this course and understand how to use Voxy's innovative platform.
- Saying Times and Dates
- This week, you will learn key vocabulary to be able to say the time, the day, and the date. You will also be able to identify months and seasons and talk about important dates.
- Talking About Numbers
- This week, you are going to learn how to use numbers in different ways, such as discussing money, prices, and costs. You will also explore how to talk about measurements, compare numbers, and make estimates.
- Making Plans
- This week is all about planning and scheduling activities, including proposing and accepting times and dates for events. You will also learn how to politely decline invitations and suggest alternatives.
- Final Tasks: Times, Dates, and Numbers
- This week, you will use everything you learned to talk about times, dates, and numbers in written and spoken form.
Taught by
Anna Murray and Rebecca Payne-Passmore
