Lesson 1
" Industry Sees Wind Power as Curb to Global Warming "
Objectives and test presentation
- Main objective: to improve listening skills
- Secondary objectives: to improve speaking, reading, and writing skills.
- Test presentation
Method
- The comprehensive study of documents: 8 different studies of audio/video files in authentic English.
- This implies doing each exercise
- from beginning to end
- in the order specified below
It will take some time, but your success relies on these two conditions.
Description of the exercises
Transcript discovery
- 1- Minimal
pairs: warming up exercise
- 2- Fill in the blanks: gradual discovery
- 3- CTest: listening and writing skills
- 4- Transcription (gradual discovery) + the final transcription exercise
Understanding
- 5- Definitions: preparatory exercise, fill in the blanks
- 6- Find words from their definitions: grammatical nature,"stop-words"
- 7- Building verbal phrases: the association of meaning and verbal elements
- 8- Translation: français > English
