This video segment from Between the Lions stars Theo the Lion reading aloud the story of Abiyoyo, a South African tale packed with suspense, heroic characters, and new words.
In this task you watch a documentary about the action and applications of aspirin. Afterward you answer a number of questions concerning the documentary.
Builds on managerial communication skills developed in 15.280. Introduces interactive oral and interpersonal communication skills important to managers, including presenting to a hostile audience, running meetings, listening, and contributing to group decision-making. Includes team-run classes on chosen communication topics. Also includes an executive summary and a long oral presentation, both aimed at a business audience, generally in conjunction with a project for another subject.
"This course builds on managerial communication skills developed in (15.279) Management Communication for Undergraduates or (15.280) Communication for Managers. It introduces interactive oral and interpersonal communication skills important to managers, including presenting to a hostile audience, running meetings, listening, and contributing to group decision-making. Working in teams, students present a communication topic of their choosing to the class. An individual project challenges students to address a business audience in written and oral forms."
Formulating and analyzing texts about air pollution. You will learn which air polluters are in our homes and how they can be prevented.
Students will learn the importance of listening and how to listen effectively.
An introduction to bargaining and negotiation in public, business, and legal settings. Combines a "hands-on" skill-building orientation with a look at pertinent social theory. Strategy, communications, ethics, and institutional influences are examined as they influence the ability of actors to analyze problems, negotiate agreements, and resolve disputes in social, organizational, and political circumstances characterized by interdependent interests.
At the completion of this lesson: based on verbal instructions you will be able to find an address in the city. Conversely, you will be able to ask for direction to a certain shop or place of interest in the city.
Auditory discrimination difficulties may play a significant part in the poor language skills often associated with the special needs pupil and the teacher will need to pay particular attention to this area of development. Lessons here attempt to integrate listening skills into the general development of language in the young child.
Australian Aboriginal art is one of the oldest continuing art traditions in the world. Much of the most important knowledge of aboriginal society was conveyed through different kinds of storytelling—including narratives that were spoken, performed as dances or songs, and those that were painted. In this lesson students will learn about the Aboriginal storytelling tradition through the spoken word and through visual culture. They will have the opportunity to hear stories of the Dreamtime told by the Aboriginal people, as well as to investigate Aboriginal storytelling in contemporary dot paintings.
At the completion of this lesson will be able to answer some questions regarding a joint bank account. You will also learn the most current bank terminologies in French.
What is a blog and what are the terms connected to this in French? Visit some blogs and complete the relevant empty spaces.
At the completion of this lesson you will be able to obtain information about a boat trip in the Bourgogne region on a Internet site. You will also learn about different boats and some of the most important rivers in France.
At the completion of this lesson you will be able to understand a news report about a bush fire in France. You will also learn how big these fires can become and what kind of damages they cause each year, over and over again.
At the completion of this lesson you will be able to hold a conversation about purchasing a second hand car. What you need to pay attention to and what types of questions to ask. How will you asses a car objectively before buying it?
At the completion of this lesson you will be able to answer questions about the first memories of the television. You will look at a number of audio segments that look back on the youth and child programs of the early days.
Chinese Take-In provides an interactive environment where first-year Chinese learners can practice listening outside the classroom according to individual needs and paces while receiving immediate feedback.
The pupils will test their comprehension of the Cinderella story. They will consolidate their understanding of the tale.
The Portuguese language lessons of ClicaBrasil highlight aspects of Brazilian culture. They are designed for intermediate to advanced students, but are accessible to everyone. Each lesson includes videos of Brazilians from all walks of life speaking naturally about their lives and their country. All lessons integrate reading, writing, listening and comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, oral communication and cultural activities with the videos.
Yorb Y Mi is an interactive, communicative, introductory, multimedia program intended to provide college/university students with basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills of language learning in Yorb. It exposes the learner not only to Yorb language in meaningful situations but also to the culture of the Yorb-speaking people of South-western Nigeria. It contains effective techniques for teaching and learning Yorb including tones, and is user-friendly in its approach.
