This course is designed to improve your English listening skills. The course is exclusively designed for Connect. It gives you valuable listening practice in various situations. It is excellent for those who want to increase their vocabulary and “think in English”.

Focus: Improving your listening skills when watching TV, movies or radio.

Topics Include: Scenes from movies, radio news reports, telephone practice and television talk shows.

The Listening Class is focused on 4 parts:

1. Listening for context – understanding what people are saying in different situations will help you understand the topic. Certain expressions are for certain situations.
2. Listening for information – to get info you need to participate in the conversation or need for a certain situation like a bus schedule or movie times.
3. Listening to non-native speakers – Friday speeches and conversation with your friends is important. Different dialects, intonation, rhythm from different countries around the world.
4. Listening to native speakers – we train your ear for listening to native speakers. You will listen to parts of movies or songs to try and “catch the meaning” at natural speed.

The Listening Program is 12 weeks in length. You can join any Monday!