The Outline for an English Listening and Oral

Communication Course
I.

Class Context

This course is designed for a four day EFL summer training camp for local
high school English teachers in China. The camp runs from Monday to
Thursday. A reading and writing course is taught in the morning, and in
the afternoon, the students will have 2 hour class session to improve their
Listening and Oral Communication skills.
In Chinese high schools, most classes are geared towards the college
admissions test. The grammar oriented test performance is the focus of
the English classes. The students listening and oral communication
competencies are way behind their knowledge of the language most of
the time. And their teachers, with limited exposure to the real English
world, often share the same problems- they are usually not trained to
function in English in the real world, much less to teach others to do so.
That is especially true for our teachers, most coming from the smaller
cities and rural areas. We are assuming their listening and speaking
competencies are around intermediate level.
The course is intended to introduce the teachers to some new approach
and techniques, to both improve their own listening and speaking skills
and rethink their ways of teaching listening and speaking, testing out the
possibilities of using these techniques in their own classroom teachings.
We chose an English cartoon movie Kong Fu Panda as the class material.
The language is authentic, simple and clear. The culture is Chinese, with
some American philosophy and humors. We hope this will help our
students to relate more and activate their cultural background knowledge.

We are targeting three goals for this course:

1. Improve the students listening comprehension through using
pre-viewing, during viewing and post-viewing activities.
2. Help the students to understand English rhythm, contracted form
and intonation, and improve the naturalness of their speech.
3. Help the students aware of the possibilities to use media and the
new approach and techniques in teaching listening and speaking
in their own classroom settings.

Thursday

Wednesday

Tuesday

Monday

II.

Scope and Sequence

Objectives
Lesson 1 We All Have Our Place in the World
Students will improve their listening
comprehension and oral communication skills
using pre-, during and post-viewing techniques
Through post-viewing activities, students will
understand rhythm and intonation of English
and practice to speak English naturally.

Lesson 2 Today Is a Present

Keep working on listening and speaking by
techniques used in last class. Adding attention
to the unstressed words and contracted forms.
Introduce pre-viewing activity of watching
without sound. Students will compare how their
listening comprehension is improves by the
pre-, during and post-viewing activities and
understand the benefit of each techniques.
During speaking practice, students would
practice using the modal verb should and its
past perfect tense should have.
Lesson 3 You Can Only Get Peaches from a Peach
Tree
Keep working on listening and speaking through
the techniques been introduced.
Students to express their opinions on a given
topic, and use negotiation skills in discussion by
using the model and words in the script like if,
but, etc.
Lesson 4 Talent Show
Role playing. Experience the improvement in
their natural English speaking and the fun in
English learning.
Students to speak English in public and in panel
discussion.

Skills

Listening
comprehension
Speak English
with a natural
rhythm and
intonation.

Listen to and
speak
contracted
forms.
Use should
and should
have.

Negotiation
skills in
discussion
(using words
like if, but,
etc.)

Speak English
in public and
panel
discussion.