In this class, students will develop their overall communicative ability with an emphasis on listening. In addition to listening tasks, other communicative functions such as speaking and writing will be included to develop overall skill.

The course will use use topics from medical, science or technology. The goal is for you to increase your science and medical vocabulary and listening.

Students at this level have very little difficulty understanding common everyday conversation. Students can understand reasonably long utterances about basic issues if spoken slowly and clearly.

english, listening

大学での学修や研究および社会生活において必要とされる英語の，実践的な基礎力を養成する。(基盤教育の基本方針より)(English III (Advanced)).

Students will first listen several times to a 3-4 minute program about a current science topic. Volunteers will be asked to answer the comprehension questions before the listening transcript is given to all the students to listen to again. Ten vocabulary words will be highlighted in each transcript for students to practice writing their own sentences. The following class students will have a quiz on the topic.

Example class schedule

Week 1. Class Introduction/phrase handouts　
Week 2. Topic 1 (e.g. tuberculosis)
Week 3. Quiz 1 / Topic 2 (e.g. AI)
Week 4. Quiz 2 / Topic 3 (e.g. gut bacteria)
Weeks 5-15 (will follow the above pattern)

Most lessons will have a short video connected to each topic.

To increase motivation, students should watch movies, listen to music or read news in English.

There will be a short 10 point quiz every week consisting of vocabulary and comprehension questions learned the previous week.

Your grade will be based on the following items:

*Quizzes (10 quizzes): 80% *(your total quiz score /total Number of quiz points)
Class participation/volunteers: 20%

Students with poor attendance will have difficulty passing the course. Students who miss 1/3 or more of the class will automatically receive a “0” as their final score.

None.

a dictionary is necessary

Tues 2:40:4:10