Bunker Hill Community College

BSL 005 Speaking & Listening II

Goal-Listening

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to listen to and comprehend beginning to high beginning listening materials (audio and video) and demonstrate an understanding of them by answering comprehension questions in sentences and by responding in short writings.

Objectives-Listening

After listening to a brief spoken description or dialogue (approx. 100-250 words) such as teacher and supervisor directions, news reports, workplace conversations, public transportation announcements, simple everyday conversations and simplified lecture material, the student will be able to:

1. identify main ideas and supporting details

2. paraphrase the description or dialogue

3. answer factual questions and begin to draw inferences and conclusions

4. develop use of prior knowledge to comprehend dialogues

5. identify a speaker’s tone

6. develop a note-taking system

7. identify and understand the most common contractions and speech reductions

8. build a listening word bank to distinguish vowel and consonant sounds (leading to minimal pairs)

9. identify homonyms and consonant and vowel sounds with repetition

10. identify two-word verbs and idioms with repetition

11. recognize some transition signals

12. identify new vocabulary and understand meanings in context

13. complete cloze exercises 

Goal—Speaking

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to converse on familiar topics in various settings, both formal and informal. These setting could include work, home, school, and places around town such as clinics, supermarkets and the library.

Objectives—Speaking

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. give a short oral introduction and speak briefly on a topic

2. ask and answer questions with little or no difficulty

3. use language in functional situations with some difficulty in order to:

a. make introductions

b. give directions/advice/instructions

c. make requests

d. express agreement/disagreement

e. ask for clarification

f. apologize

g. express regret

h. express sympathy

i. take leave

j. ask for permission

k. make excuses

4. use formal and informal registers

5. use correct word order

6. use past, present and future tenses with little difficulty

7. use a variety of idioms in conversations

8. use tag questions with some difficulty

9. use a dictionary to discern syllables and stress of a word

10. pronounce endings for plural nouns and past tense regular verbs with some proficiency

11. pronounce most contractions correctly

12. pronounce the 750 most common words in English (list)

Work-Related Objectives

Listening. After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. understand questions about himself or herself, work experience and education in a role-play of an interview

2. recognize body language as an indirect means of communication

3. understand speech used for meetings at work

4. listen to or watch advertisements and identify the product, the speaker’s purpose, and the target audience

Speaking. After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. answer questions about himself/herself, work experience and education in a role-play of an interview

2. discuss the basic job benefits including health insurance, vacation time, and sick days

3. discuss safety and hygiene regulations for workforce in different workplaces such as hospitals, restaurants, and offices

4. discuss issues of sexual harassment and other types of discrimination on a job and report problems involving oneself

5. discuss the company’s mission statement with fellow employees or customers

6. study pictures from an inventory list and learn how to pronounce the words and use them in sentences

7. discuss positive and negative aspects of the workplace with fellow employees and bosses

8. begin to use speech required for meetings or other formal occasions at work

9. ask a supervisor for a letter of reference

Grammar and Mechanics

· word order of sentences and questions

· verb tenses: past, present, future

· “ed” for regular past tense verbs [d] [t] [id]

· singular/plural nouns [s] [z] [iz]

· count/non-count nouns

· adjectives/adverbs

· prepositions of time and place

· question words (“wh”)

· simple modals

· comparatives/superlatives

· imperatives

· infinitives/gerunds (introduce)

· determiners, especially articles

Grammar Handout for BESL Courses-Grammar explanations from Focus On Grammar; exercises are available on computers in CSDL.