BANKING ACADEMY OF VIETNAM

FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

LISTENING 1 SYLLABUS
(ATC PROGRAM)

1. Course description: Listening 1 is an integrated skill course but strongly emphasizes on listening
skills and strategies. Students will develop their comprehensive listening ability through thought-
provoking videos and real-life listening tasks which are provided in the course during 16 weeks. The main
content of this course is focused on 10 units of the core book with different topics.

2. Course objectives: By the end of the course, the students are expected to be able to
 enrich a wide range of grammar and vocabulary related to certain topics such as animals, customs
and traditions, history, transport, environment, health and fitness, discovery an invention,
fashion, economics and the brain.
 improve their listening skills such as taking notes, understanding key vocabulary, predicting
content, listening for detail, listening for main ideas, listening for opinion, listening for text
organization features.
 to achieve level B1 (PET) in their listening competence.
3. Supplementary
materials: Books:
1. Logan S., Thaine L. (2008) Cambridge English Skills Real Listening and Speaking
2, Cambridge University Press.
2. H., Gordon J A.(2010) Essential Listening for IELTS. Higher Education Press and Nhan Tri
Viet Co., Ltd.
3. Badger, I. (2011) English for life, Listening, Collin
4. Marks, J (2007). English Pronunciation in use - Elementary, Cambridge University Press
5. Oxeden, C. & Latham, C. (2006) New English File Pre - Intermediate Student’s Book , Oxford
University Press
6. Redman, S. (2006) English vocabulary in use – Pre Intermediate and Intermediate, Cambridge
University Press
Websites:
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening-skills-practice
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/listen-and-watch
http://www.esl-lab.com/
https://podcastsinenglish.com/pages/level1.shtml
http://learningenglish.voanews.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/
http://www.newsinlevels.com/
4. Assessment:

Progress Test Progress Test Progress Test Progress

Attendance + 1 2 3 Test 4
Task End-of-
Completion term Test
(10 %) Midterm Test 1 (15%) Midterm Test 2 (15%) (60%)
(on average) (on average)
5. Course schedule:
LANGUAGE
MAIN
DAY TOPICS SUB-SKILLS DEVELOPM
CONTENTS
ENT
1 - Introductory activities
- Overview of the listening course
- Pre-test
2 UNIT 1 - Video: Wildlife - Key listening skill: Word families
Animals conservation  Taking notes
- Listening 1: A podcast  Understanding key vocabulary
with a veterinary student  Predicting content
(Biology)  Listening for detail
- Listening 2: A Debate  Listening for main ideas
about using animals for  Listening for opinion
work (Politics) - Pronunciation for listening:
 Intonation of the lists
3 UNIT 2 - Video: Japan: customs and -Key listening skill: Suffixes
Customs traditions  Identifying cause and effect
and - Listening 1: A radio  Understanding key vocabulary
Traditions program about changing  Predicting content
customs in the modern world  Listening for main ideas
(Sociology)  Listening for detail
-Listening 2: A discussion  Using your knowledge
about new social-networking - Pronunciation for listening:
habits  Connected speech: final /t/, /d/
(Culture)
4 UNIT 3 - Video: The desert - Key listening skill: Synonyms
History mummies of Peru  Understanding key vocabulary
- Listening 1: A discussion  Using your knowledge
about major historical finds  Listening for main ideas
(History)- Listening 2: A  Listening for detail
lecture about Sultan  Listening for text organization
Mehmed II (History) features
- Pronunciation for listening:
 Connected speech: weak form
5 Exam Revision 1 and Progress Test 1
6 UNIT 4 - Video: How to make a - Key listening skill: Talking about
Transport BMW  Identifying rhetorical questions achievement
- Listening 1: A radio  Understanding key vocabulary
program about fear of flying  Using your knowledge
(Psychology)  Listening for main ideas
- Listening 2: A focus-group  Listening for detail
discussion about cycling  Taking notes
(Sociology)  Listening for text organization
features
- Pronunciation for listening:
 Word stress
7 UNIT 5 - Video: Sleeping giants: - Key listening skill: Negative
Environment Russia’s volcanoes Understanding explanation prefixes
- Listening 1:]/ A lecture  Understanding key vocabulary
about agriculture (Ecology) Predicting content from visual
- Listening 2: A debate  Listening for main ideas
about nuclear energy  Listening for detail
(Politics)  Listening for text organization
features
 Listening for counter-argument
- Pronunciation for listening:
 Connected speech: linking
sounds
8 UNIT 6 - Video: Training for a - Key listening skill: - Phrasal verbs
Health and triathlon: the ultimate event  Identifying attitude
Fitness - Listening 1: A radio  Understanding key vocabulary
programme about healthy  Using your knowledge
lifestyles (Fitness)  Listening for main ideas
- Listening 2: Health  Referring to common knowledge
advertisements (Health)  Listening for detail
- Pronunciation for listening:
 Intonation: expressing attitude
9 Exam Revision 2 and Progress Test 2
10 UNIT 7 - Video: Engineering a ski - Key listening skill: Phrases with
Discovery resort in the desert  Understanding lecture make
and - Listening 1: A talk about organization
invention inventions (Discovery)  Understanding key vocabulary
- Listening 2: A lecture  Using your knowledge
about mobile phone apps  Listening for main ideas
(Invention)  Listening for detail
(Sports science)  Referring to earlier ideas
 Taking notes
 Listening for text organization
features
- Pronunciation for listening:
 Weak form and strong form
11 UNIT 8 - Video: From function to - Key listening skill: Idioms and
Fashion fashion  Listening for detail expression
- Listening 1: A discussion  Understanding key vocabulary
about clothes(Fashion)  Using visual to predict content
- Listening 2: Interview  Listening for main ideas
with a designer (Business)  Using your knowledge
- Pronunciation for listening:
 Vowel elision
12 Exam Revision 3 and Progress Test 3
13 UNIT 9 - Video: Economic - Key listening skill: Collocation
Economics migration: the Chinese  Understanding key vocabulary with pay, save
dream  Using your knowledge to predict and money
- Listening 1: A radio content
programme about  Listening for main ideas
millionaire lifestyles  Listening for detail
(Sociology)  Referring to research
- Listening 2: A discussion  Identifying opposing points of
about whether college view
students should be paid for - Pronunciation for listening:
good grades (Economics)  Silent letters
14 UNIT 10 - Video: The placebo effect - Key listening skill: Collocation
The brain - Listening 1: An interview  Understanding paraphrase with mind
about what makes a genius  Using your knowledge to predict
(Psychology) content
- Listening 2: A formal  Listening for main ideas
conversation about brain  Listening for detail
health (Health) - Pronunciation for listening:
 Intonation in questions

15 Exam Revision 4 and Progress Test 4

16 Revision for final test