Practice of Oral Skills

OVERALL OBJECTIVE
To help students improve their oral proficiency skills (listening, speaking). Students will be required to put into practice the grammar that they are learning in their formal level-specific grammar class.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES
? To improve the communicative capacity and oral interactions in daily situations.
? To speak about things, people, real places, and abstract feelings.
? To practice and improve pronunciation, intonation, and fluidity of spoken discourse.
? To practice the mechanisms of summarization of past events and description of developing events.

CONTENT
1.- To ask for and provide information: location of places, people, and public services.

2.- Description of people, places, and objects

3.- Making an appointment

4.- Having phone conversations

5.- Dialogues in daily situations
5.1.- In a bar/café
5.2.- Shopping
5.3.- In a restaurant
5.4.- In a travel agency

6.- Dialogues in public places or places of public service
6.1.- Post Office
6.2.- In a bank
6.3.- In a hospital
6.4.- En la comisaría de policía
6-5.- En la Secretaría de la Universidad

7.- Expressing an opinion and showing agreement and disagreement

8.- Actions and circumstances completed in the past

9.- Indirectly expressing information orally from others

10.- Expressing feelings, needs, and desires

11.- Suggestions, instructions, and commands

12.- Reactions to information given

13.- Estimating and expressing doubt or probability