Spoken English B1 – Semester I

Course Outline

• Why is English important?

• We will improve on the English you already know.

• We will try different situations to practice English.

• Speaking is no.1, but also reading, listening and

grammar are needed to improve.

• Speaking is the best way to communicate abroad,

with foreigners, and in a work environment.

The Course Book

Spoken English B1 I Grading

• Mid-Term Test: 30%Paper Test 30%

• Weekly tests 10%

• Weekly speaking 10%

• Final Semester Test: 50 %Paper Test 25%

Pair Conversation 25%

PLUS

Homework Sheets every week

Higher grade:lots of energy and imagination, speaking a lot in class,

never late, all homework done on time, great team member

Pass grade:Interested in speaking, rarely late, good energy, helpful in a

team, homework done

Failure grade:Not interested in the lesson, late to class, low effort,

no home work done

Grades and Assessment

How will I grade this class?

Use of English

Attendance

Mid –term Test

Good

Ideas

Team working

Did you

Improve?

Final Test

Confidence

How I grade this Class….

Classroom Effort (including attendance)

Mid-term and Weekly Tests

Final Test

Topics

Food

Family Life

Job Interviews

Money

Change your life

Transport

Stereotypes

Success and Failure

Modern Manners

Sport

Presentations

Speech patterns

Story Telling

Giving Advice

Semester I – Grammar Points

1. First Meeting: My Presentation, Student

Introduction, Course Outline

2. Talk about Happy and Unhappy times: simple

past and continuous sentence speech

3. Comparing the Past to Now: How have you

changed over the years

4. What kind are parent will you be: Compare

yourself to your parents, Flash test

5. Review the Present Perfect tense in speech and

link to past and present

6. Comparing the present perfect with the simple

past

7. Feelings: Discuss your feelings in difference

situations and prepare a speech

8. Mid-term Speech and Paper Test

Spoken English B1 – Semester I

9. Reading Hand-out from Teacher on Travel

10. When will you die: Plan your whole life and guess what will happen to you

11. Jobs Interviews: Plan a mock interview in teams and interview each other

12. Are you an optimist or a pessimistic? Use phrase opposites to describe yourself

Spoken English B1 – Semester I

Spoken English B1 – Semester I

13. Healthy and Unhealthy: Talk about body parts

and how much you should or shouldn’t do

14. Presentation Practice: Speech stress and

Gesturing Skills I

15. Presentation Practice: Speech stress and

Gesturing Skills II

16: Final Speech test and Written Paper test

Spoken English B1 – Semester I

How would you describe Japanese people

to a foreign person?