English Conversation Course - Improve your Speaking Skills

Description

You can improve your spoken English if you take this course. By the end of this course, you will be able to speak more fluently about 20 different topics in English.

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There are 20 lectures on everyday topics - for example: weather, hobbies and family. Each lecture is structured as follows:

1. Vocabulary

2. Sentence building

3. Dialogue

4. Idioms

5. Practice assignment (fill in the blanks)

6. Longer speaking / writing task.

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This is not a course to make you sound more ‘academic’ or ‘formal’ – this is for realistic, daily English conversation.

My name is Louis and I am a professional English teacher from Canada. After teaching online for the past few years, I developed my own materials to help my students practice speaking. I wrote this textbook “Conversation English” for use as lesson plans during my one-to-one online English classes. Based on experience with hundreds of students, I know this method to be effective.

This course is based entirely on the ‘Conversation English’ materials. There are 20 video lectures, each corresponding to a chapter of the book. Some of the topics include everyday things like: work, education, hobbies, hometowns, and exercise. The full description of the contents can be found in this course description.

At the beginning of each lecture, we learn useful vocabulary. We will then see how to use this vocabulary in realistic, practical ways. After that, we will look at an example dialogue, which shows how two native speakers might casually discuss the topic in question. In addition to the vocabulary and sentence structures, I will also teach you three idioms in each video. Idioms are important phrases used by native speakers in order to speak more casually and expressively. To review, there will be a fill in the blanks exercise and a speaking assignment. This is the basic structure of each video in this course.

In terms of additional materials, I have provided a vocabulary list and a writing assignment for each video. You can download these materials in PDF form. Just look for the ‘resources’ tab on each lecture.

In total there are 20 lectures, which add up to more 4 hours of learning. You will learn over 200 vocabulary words, and 60 idioms. But you will not just be asked to remember these things, you will be taught how to use them fluently.

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The 20 lectures cover the following topics:
Lecture One - Free Time Activities

learn to talk about what you enjoy doing in your free time. Also learn to talk about where you can do certain activities.

Lecture Two - Technology

learn to talk about different devices and what you use them for. Also learn how to talk about life without technology.

Lecture Three - Education

learn to talk about what subjects you like and dislike. Learn adjectives to describe subjects.

Lecture Four - A Special Occasion

learn to talk about special occasions like holidays and birthdays. Learn to describe a recent special occasion you've had.

Lecture Five - Home

learn to talk about the different rooms in a home and adjectives to describe homes. Learn nouns for different kinds of homes.

Lecture Six - People from the Past

learn adjectives to describe people's appearance and personality. Learn how to talk about someone you used to be close to.

Lecture Seven - Hometown

learn to describe the place where you are from. Learn the names of places in a town and how to say why a town is good or bad.

Lecture Eight - Talking about the Weather

learn how to talk about the weather. Also learn how to say that you are lucky or unlucky.

Lecture Nine - Books

learn to describe what type of books you like. Learn adjectives to help you describe books and genres.

Lecture Ten - Job Application

learn adjectives to describe jobs and also learn actions which you must do when applying for jobs. Also, talk about a job from your past.

Lecture Eleven - Trip

learn how to describe forms of transportation and adjectives to describe vehicles and trips. Talk about your vacations.

Lecture Twelve - People and Education

use adjectives about appearance and personality to talk about what makes a good teacher and student.

Lecture Thirteen - Pets

learn how to talk about our animal friends. Learn how to talk about taking care of specific animals and talk about past pets.

Lecture Fourteen - How do I Look?

learn in more detail how to talk about appearance. This includes hair, face and body.

Lecture Fifteen - Work

learn to talk about a typical day at work. Learn vocabulary about offices and work activities.

Lecture Sixteen - Daily Routines

practice talking about different times of day and what you do at those times of day. Also, talk about your daily routines.

Lecture Seventeen - Family

learn to talk about family. Learn words to categorize family members and learn verbs for family activities.

Lecture Eighteen - Cities and Problems

talk about the benefits and disadvantages of living in big cities.

Lecture Nineteen - Sports and Exercise

learn to talk about which sports and exercises you like. In addition, learn how to describe sports equipment.

Lecture Twenty - Movies

learn words associated with movies and movie production. Also, learn the words for movie genres and talk about what kind of movies you like.
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Each lecture has a list of vocabulary attached. You can study from these lists if you feel like you need more review on the topic.
To get the most out of this course, you should try to make your own sentences with each vocabulary word. Once you feel comfortable with that, you can put the sentences together and make paragraphs.

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I made this course to help you in the comfort of your home improve your speaking abilities. I hope you enjoy learning English, and good luck studying.

Who this course is for:

• English learners who lack confidence in public speaking and want to grow their career and improve their life by improving their English speaking skills.
• People seeking immigration to an English speaking country and want to improve their basic English conversational skills.
• Employees who work at a company where they must speak English and want to feel more comfortable.
• Anyone trying to improve their English speaking fluency.