OPIE D703 - Pronunciation through Current Events

• Students will engage in regular activities such as listening to news broadcasts (radio, televised, internet) with follow-up tasks to strengthen both their listening comprehension as well as their awareness of English segmentals and super-segmentals.
• Students will identify their individual problems in producing comprehensible spoken English and will develop self-monitoring / correction strategies.
• Students will increase their knowledge of vocabulary pertinent to current world events, to enable them to understand the news reports and analyses that they listen to and read and to enable them to speak about these topics.
• Students will make a major oral presentation to the class about a current event of personal interest that they have been carefully following in both written and broadcast news.
• Students will practice the individual sounds, rhythm, intonation, and stress associated with spontaneous and planned spoken English
• Students will speak about current events in small groups and in front of the class with comprehensibility marked by attention to organization, flow, clarity of articulation and appropriate stress and intonation patterns.