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 examples of people telling stories in all kinds of contexts: from describing their favorite book to telling an anecdote, and from talking about skills in an interview to giving a presentation. By the end of the course, you will feel confident telling stories in any context, personal or professional.
Overview
Syllabus
- Course Introduction & Voxy Orientation
- This week, you will learn about this course and understand how to use Voxy's innovative platform.
- Books & Movies
- In this module, you will sharpen your storytelling skills by describing stories you know. You’ll also learn how to give your opinion about books and movies and share how books can make you feel.
- Personal Anecdotes
- This week, you will learn how to tell stories about yourself and things that have happened in your private life, from unusual events to important lessons learned, all the way through to what makes you who you are.
- Cover Letters and Interviews
- You'll be talking about yourself again in this module, but this time you'll be concentrating on highlighting your professional experiences and skills. You'll also see some common interview questions and learn how to respond, and you'll get some tips for writing an effective cover letter.
- Presentations
- This week, you will learn important skills for giving presentations, both in person and remotely. You'll hear tips for starting a presentation effectively as well as some more general advice.
- Final Tasks: Telling Stories
- This week, you will use everything you learned to tell stories both in written and spoken form.
Taught by
Rebecca Payne-Passmore and Anna Murray
