Reading and listening practice on how to stay calm in crucial moments with a video and its transcript Listening practice on how to stay calm Lecturer, author or publisher: Noa Kageyama and Pen-Pen Chen on TED-Ed YouTube Channel Watch this video on YouTube Reading practice on how to stay calm Your favorite athlete closes in …
English Presentation Performance Evaluation English Presentation Performance Evaluation Watch this video on YouTube LELB Society’s Lecturer: Sasan Handout Provided by the Lecturer When specifically is the importance of evaluation taken into account? Enumerate the 3 main classifications of evaluation presented by the lecturer. What is a benchmark? Which type of evaluation is your favorite one? …
Confidence IELTS Listening Reading Practice Lecturer, author or publisher: David Dunning on TED-Ed Confidence IELTS Reading Practice Watch this video on YouTube What is confidence? Are you as good at things as you think you are? How good are you at managing money? What about reading people’s emotions? How healthy are you compared to other people you …
English Negotiation Android vs. iPhone Smartphones English Negotiation Android vs. iPhone Smartphones About this activity Remember that a negotiation is NOT a lecture or monologue, and you should take equal turns in the negotiations. Please note that this activity is like a game, and you should prepare yourself to defend your position even if it is against your own …
IELTS Writing Task 1 Restaurant Chains IELTS Writing Task 1 Restaurant Chains Instructions: Visual Data: Noun The table above provides us with some information about a restaurant’s average sales in three different branches in 2016. Write a summary of the information given in the table by selecting and reporting the main points. You could make comparisons …
IELTS Writing Task 2 Physical Disabilities IELTS Writing Task 2 Physical Disabilities Topic According to recent approaches to education, students with physical (not mental) disabilities should attend ordinary schools. Nevertheless, many people believe that these students should be educated in special schools in isolation. To what extent do you concur with this point of view? You should provide …
IELTS Writing Task 1 | Export Performance IELTS Writing Task 1 | Export Performance ?Instructions: The chart below gives some information about Someland’s main export performances in 2005, 2015, and its future prospect in 2025. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information delineated in the graph. Essayist: Arash The bar chart below …
Communicative Language Testing Communicative Language Testing The advent of communicative language testing saw a growing preference for face-to-face interaction as the context in which the assessment of spoken language skills would occur. In communicative language testing, the target of test inferences is performance of a set of communicative tasks in various contexts of use. The …
Competence Competence corresponds to the I-language (Internal Language). Competency is the speaker/hearer’s knowledge of his language. It’s an abstract version of knowledge. Competency is independent of situation. It represent what the speaker knows in the abstract. The different types of competence are: grammatical competency, linguistic competency, communicative competency, pragmatic competency, Communicative Competency: Discourse Competency: The …
Speech Acts Speech acts are carried out over various turns and their exact shape takes into account interlocutor reactions. In other words, conversation is co-constructed by both interlocutors, which is something that can never be simulated with DCTs. Speech acts are certainly the most researched area of pragmatics, and they are arguably the most social, …