Student Support
Student Support
Reach advanced fluency by debating global issues and working with authentic news, media, and texts.
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Advanced Discussion challenges students to speak about complex issues and current events from around the world. Students work with real-world English from articles, blogs, and journals, experiencing the language the same way native speakers do. Using a communicative approach, the teacher emphasizes active participation and gives corrective feedback as needed. Lessons develop pronunciation, listening, and reading skills alongside fluent, confident speaking.
Students are encouraged to review course vocabulary and materials outside class to accelerate their progress.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Take part in fast-paced, fluency-focused conversations
• Understand complex and academic topics and contemporary issues
• Understand international, global, and cultural issues in context
• Organize and take part in informal debates
• Select and prepare articles for discussion, with related debate questions
• Present researched articles to a group on topics such as science, politics, sociology, international relations, and economics
• Research new topics and vocabulary for independent study
• Group and class discussions
• Independent article research
• In-class article presentations
• Vocabulary study from articles
• Creating debate and discussion questions
• Informal debates
• Speaking and listening: 50%
• Participation: 25%
• Presentations and assignments: 25%
Regular attendance is essential to success in this class. Students who miss more than 3 days per session will find it very difficult to keep up.
• Daily topical articles selected by the teacher
• Article selection and assignment guidelines
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Introduction and reading of article
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Group discussion, related topics, Q&A
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
First break
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Student-led seminars