NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY Department of English for Business - Foreign Languages Faculty

COURSE SYLLABUS

BUSINESS ENGLISH – LISTENING SKILL – TERM II

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I. INTRODUCTION

This course is designed for the language majored students of Business - oriented English

Program of the National Economics University. It is the second required Language skill course in

Semester 2 of language majored students of their first year at National Economics University.

It is mainly designed for students have finished their listening skill 1 in the first semester

and has been equipped with basic practical skills to improve their listening skills step by step. This

is the basis for students to further practice and to build up their knowledge, practice skills and

tactics for intensive professional subjects in the next years.

It is a 30-class-hour course of Listening Skill, in which there are two 45-minute periods of

Listening Skill every week.

II. GOALS

The course aims at providing students with essential listening strategies in listening to a

variety of themes/topics for their successful results of studying English in the first year at

university, which will be a basis for their further study as follows:

Healthy eating

Celebrity

Journalism

Past experiences and stories

Culture

Services

Companies

Problems at work

Meetings

Scholarships

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Study management

Interview

III. OUTCOME

After the course, students will be able to:

Recognize sounds

Distinguish sounds

Recognize word stress, syllable stress, sentence stress

Identify intonation in different situations

Skim for general information

Scan for certain limited information

Listen for gist (key words)

Listen for details (specific information)

IV. COURSE - BOOKS AND MATERIALS

* Course book: Building Listening Skills 2, compiled by Teachers of Listening Group, Department

of Business English, Faculty of Foreign Languages, National Economics University

* Reference books

Jack C. Richards, Developing Tactics For Listening, Oxford University Press, 2002

David Nunan, Listen in 1 , Oxford University Press, 2004

David Nunan, Listen in 2 , Oxford University Press, 2004

David Nunan, Listen in 3 , Oxford University Press, 2004

V. ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

An overall and on – going policy will be applied. Throughout the course, students’

participation in in-and-off class activities and their homework fulfillment are also part of the

assessment. Teachers are to check students’ homework fulfillment randomly every week.

Attendance + Participation + Homework Fulfillment 10%

Assignment 10%

Mid-term test 20%

Final exam 60%

Total 100%

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1. Group assignment: Students are grouped randomly (3 students/1 group) by the teacher at the

beginning of the course. Each week, the assigned group collects a short part/ scene of an English

speaking movie (less than 5 minutes) whose topic is related to the unit of the week. Then 03

exercises will be designed based on the interview. The movie will be played for the class to watch

while the exercises will be completed at the same time. Assessment is based on the quality of the

movie file, the appropriateness of the topic, the diversity and quality of exercises, the

appropriateness of related exercises.

2. Mid-term test: The test will consist of three listening passages. After listening to the passages

twice, students are to do exercises of varied types such as Finding specific information/ Gap filling/

Multiple Choice/ Comprehension questions, etc. The allotted time for the mid-term test is 15

minutes.

3. Final test: The test will consist of three listening passages. After listening to the passages twice,

students are to do exercises of varied types such as Finding specific information/ Gap filling/

Multiple Choice/ Comprehension questions/ True - False statements/ Finding main ideas, etc. The

allotted time for the final test is 30 minutes.

VI. CONTENT AND SCHEDULE

The course will take 15 weeks with 02 class hours each week.

WEEKLY PLAN

Week Topics and content

1Introduction of the course

Getting to know each other

2 Unit 1: At the airport

3 Unit 2: Services

4 Unit 3: Sightseeing

5 Unit 4: Party talk

6 Unit 5: Healthy eating

7 Unit 6: Past experiences

8 Unit 7: Magazines

9 Unit 8: Celebrity

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10 Midterm Test

11 Unit 9: Orientation

12 Unit 10: Scholarships

13 Unit 11: Study management

14 Unit 12: Interviews

15 Revision for Final Exam

Final

exam

This schedule is subject to change.

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