Speaking English With Confidence Course by JLB

Speaking English With Confidence is a 20 hour course that will make boost your confidence in your English.

How Does It Work?

Speaking English With Confidence works on:

• pronunciation and intonation
• vocabulary building
• listening skills
• understanding natural English speech
• communication

 The course is for ESL learners at the intermediate to advanced level, ages 13 and up.


The Textbooks


Speaking English With Confidence uses three textbooks.

All students will use Whaddaya Say? for pronunciation, intonation, and listening. It's an amazing textbook for those who want to sound more like a native speaker, and improve their ability to understand "relaxed speech".

The class would begin with listen-and-repeat exercises.

Next reading and listening comprehension exercises. Followed by a gap fill activity and more discussion to practice more using relaxed speech.

There will be more pronunciation and intonation work in this part of the class; lots of listen and repeat exercises, and mini roleplays.


After the break, the  will move on to the discussion/debate part of the class.

Impact Topics is a great textbook for guided conversation lessons. It also has a lot of phrasal verbs, slang, etc, so the students can learn more natural, common expressions and words. The beginning and end of each unit has discussion questions.

The first part can be done as a gap-fill activity where the students can complete the dialogues then listen and check their answers, or as a listening exercise.

 The goal in this part of the course is to learn new vocabulary and express opinions more strongly, clearly, and confidently. Student-talking-time will be very, very high. The instructor will only speak at the end to give feedback on students' performance.
 
If you're in the Vancouver area, Speaking English With Confidence will be held at  APASS International Education Group in Coquitlam (just outside Vancouver). It's accessible from downtown by the Sky Train.  I'll also be offering the course privately (it can be held at a community centre, office, library, etc).