COURSE TITLE: SPEAKING CLASS: 08AV111 – 08AV112 LECTURER: NGUYEN NGOC YEN COURSE TASK TYPE: TOPIC-BASED and DISCUSSING COURSE DURATION: 45 periods COURSE BOOK: None REFERENCE: Varied COURSE OVERVIEW WEEK PERIOD 10 11 4 4 4 4 4 TOPICS Compulsory Course overview School & your study Strategies of studying Speaking Vacations & Holidays Friends & Friendship Plans & goals Suggested from students 10 11 Page of COURSE OVERVIEW WEEK AIMS To give students an overall look on how the course will go To inform students some basic requirements of the course To know students’ expectations from the course ACTIVITIES Getting to know each other Some basic requirements of the course Students’ expectations from the course Topic negotiation Students’ preparation: Think of some topics that are required as suggested from students with these criteria: + Relevant to students’ age & level of knowledge + Be of students’ interests + Current hot issues SCHOOL & YOUR STUDY WEEK AIMS To get students to generalize school requirements To reflect students’ expectations and their responsibilities To know how and what to set plans for their coming semesters ACTIVITIES Self-reflection: Students reflect some aspects about school: what they like, what they don’t like and what they wish to or have Bright ideas: Solutions to some school aspects Future resolutions: identify what is important and decisive in sts’ study in coming semesters => list resolutions to get the best outcomes HOMEWORK/REFLECTION Tell about how you have been studying so far in LHU Will you make any change for the next semesters? Page of WEEK STRATEGIES OF STUDYING SPEAKING AIMS To see how students have been studying English so far To see their weaknesses and strengths in practising speaking skills To suggest some good tips for students to study speaking more effectively ACTIVITIES Students reflect how they have been practising speaking skills during years (good and weak points) and self-evaluate the effects and progress made Students suggest better techniques to study speaking HOMEWORK/REFLECTION Evaluate your speaking skills so far and how you would improve it VACATIONS & HOLIDAYS WEEK AIMS To make a plan on how to advertise a “student trip” To design a resort and win the bid of the project To make a plan on how to advertise tours in Dong Nai ACTIVITIES Students as Travel Agents make plan to advertise a trip for students in LHU Students are supposed to attend a bid for owning deserted island and make it a resort Students in groups choose a place in Dong Nai and plan to make it become a tourist destination HOMEWORK/REFLECTION Tourism and Vietnamese people WEEK FRIENDS AIMS To get students to recognize what a true friend & friendship is To give students vocabulary of characteristics ACTIVITIES Game on characteristic vocabulary Page of & FRIENDSHIP Sts talk about their best friends Some situations of friendship to be solved Some quotes about friendship by students HOMEWORK/REFLECTION What you think of one of these statements? “A friend in need is a friend in indeed.” “Who needs friends, the old or the young?” PLAN & GOALS WEEK AIMS To activate sts’ awareness of setting plans & goals for their study & their life ACTIVITIES An activity to lead in the topic: what is a plan or goal? Benefits of making plans & setting goals for one’s life Groups sketch their plans to reach a certain goal Sts share about their goals in life HOMEWORK/REFLECTION What’s your goal after graduation from university? What plans you make to reach that goal? Page of ... SPEAKING AIMS To see how students have been studying English so far To see their weaknesses and strengths in practising speaking skills To suggest some good tips for students to study speaking. .. practising speaking skills during years (good and weak points) and self-evaluate the effects and progress made Students suggest better techniques to study speaking HOMEWORK/REFLECTION Evaluate your speaking. .. resolutions: identify what is important and decisive in sts’ study in coming semesters => list resolutions to get the best outcomes HOMEWORK/REFLECTION Tell about how you have been studying so far