About this course: Do you want to speak better English? This course will help you reach that goal. Speak English Professionally: In person, Online and On the Phone will boost your English speaking skills. In this 5 week course, you will learn how to identify and make a strong personal introduction. You will develop and demonstrate the speaking skills for group discussions: how to agree or disagree, how to clarify, restate and summarize. You will review and practice how to give information and respond to requests on the phone. You will study and role play effective interviewing. You will prepare and give a sales “pitch”, introducing a product or service. Throughout the course, you will change how you speak English and you will become more fluent and accurate when you speak. You will demonstrate culturally appropriate body language and tone. As you work through the course, you will complete self- and peer-evaluations. Through a combination of lectures, comprehension and vocabulary quizzes, practice and performance, you’ll gain the skills and confidence to communicate well in English, anywhere in the world. By the end of this course you will: • Change how you speak English • Improve your pronunciation and fluency • Increase your English vocabulary • Identify how culture influences your speech • Use culture to help you speak correctly • Demonstrate the best body language for different cultural settings • Know statements, questions and responses for different settings and situations
Taught by: Amalia B. Stephens, Lecturer
Georgia Tech Language Institute
| Basic Info | Course 2 of 4 in the Improve Your English Communication Skills Specialization |
| Language | English, Subtitles: Persian, French, Japanese |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: Introduction to Course
- Discussion Prompt: Introduce Yourself to Your Course Mates
- Reading: Consent Form
- Video: Small Talk & Conversational Vocabulary
- Reading: Review and Practice Small Talk
- Practice Quiz: Check Your Knowledge
- Video: Key Pronunciation: Stress & Intonation
- Reading: Practice Word Stress
- Reading: Practice Sentence Stress
- Reading: Practice Intonation
- Practice Quiz: Check Your Knowledge
- Video: The Elevator Speech
- Reading: Additional Resources
- Reading: Get More from the Georgia Tech Language Institute
- Practice Quiz: Check Your Knowledge
- Reading: Get More from The Georgia Tech Language Institute
- Video: Basics of Meeting Online
- Reading: Additional Resources
- Practice Quiz: Check Your Knowledge
- Video: Group Discussion Language
- Practice Quiz: Check Your Knowledge
- Video: Video Conference Role Play
- Reading: Practice with Dialogues
- Video: Let's Learn Telephone Language
- Reading: Practice with Dialogues
- Practice Quiz: Check Your Knowledge
- Video: Key Pronunciation - Can/Can't & Numbers
- Reading: Practice Stress
- Practice Quiz: Check Your Knowledge
- Video: Phone Role Play
- Reading: Additional Resources
- Practice Quiz: Check Your Knowledge
- Video: First Impressions: Body Language
- Reading: Practice Body Language
- Discussion Prompt: Talk about Body Language
- Practice Quiz: Check Your Knowledge
- Video: Key Pronunciation: -ed & -s Endings
- Reading: Practice -ed Endings
- Reading: Practice -s Endings
- Practice Quiz: Check Your Knowledge
- Video: Interview Role Play
- Reading: Additional Resources
- Video: Organizing Your Pitch: 3 Tells
- Reading: Additional Resources
- Practice Quiz: Check Your Knowledge
- Video: More about Stress & Intonation
- Reading: Stress Rules
- Practice Quiz: Check Your Knowledge
- Reading: Where to go from here?
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I found that this course was very well structured and also going straight to the point that are important to have a good spoken English for the USA. The exercises offered are really good, but as there is no integrated platform to record voice, it is very difficult to rate or be rated properly because many of us have bad microphones, and/or bad headphones. for example, I recorded my prompts using a professional headphone for skype that we use at the office, could hear them perfectly, but some people complained about poor quality and low level ... I also had trouble with some people not understanding clearly instruction and expecting the exact words given as example being used in the answer, this is also something to better clarify I think in the explanations!
To wrap up, it was a very good experience, I intend to follow the other courses in the future, because in the overall it has refreshed my english very well and recalled me about the essentials, thank you!
It is very helpful course that increase my knowledge alot
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this course very useful for all