About this Course
In this course, you will develop your English conversational skills that you can use to build your personal and professional relationships. Learning activities in this course will take place on Voxy, an engaging language learning platform that automatically adapts to your current level and your performance across reading, listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills so that every lesson is optimized for rapid improvement. Each week is made up of engaging, short, task-based lessons that can be done anywhere, anytime. Lessons include content from the real world, so you will learn from dozens of real news articles, social media posts, professional development content, and conversations about current issues and controversies regarding the media. By the end of the course, you will feel confident navigating and reacting to all kinds of media in English, whether mainstream news reports, social media, or professional articles and blogs
What You'll Learn
- Read and react to current events and news reports
- Engage in social media discussions on concerns and controversies
- Read professional articles and blogs on various topics
- Follow spoken and written interviews and Q&As
Prerequisites
- Basic familiarity with the topic and its common terminology
- Readiness to practice through applied exercises or case-based work
Instructors
Anna Murray
Rebecca Payne-Passmore
Director of Content and Learning Design