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Intermediate English: Talking About Yourself

Voxy via Coursera

Overview

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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 talking about yourself – who you are, where you're from, what you do, and your likes and dislikes. By the end of the course, you will feel confident speaking and writing about yourself in both personal and professional contexts.

Syllabus

  • Course Introduction & Voxy Orientation
    • This week, you will learn about this course and understand how to use Voxy's innovative platform.
  • Your Background
    • This week, you will learn how to talk about your background – where you grow up, where you live, what your family and friends are like, and more.
  • Favorites and Preferences
    • This week, you will learn how to talk about your favorites and preferences – food and drinks, hobbies and sports, and more. You'll also learn how to express preferring one thing over another, and talk about the things you don't like as well!
  • Work Experience
    • This week, we're switching to a professional context. You will learn how to talk about your work and strengthen your job application by building a strong CV and describing your professional skills in detail.
  • Networking
    • This week, you will learn how to make conversation and reach out to connect with current and former colleagues in a way that will help your career moving forward.
  • Final Tasks: Talk About Yourself
    • This week, you will use everything you learned to describe yourself both in written and spoken form.

Taught by

Anna Murray and Rebecca Payne-Passmore

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