The Intensive Listening Course focuses on improving your ability to listen and understand content in professional, academic, and social settings. We focus on developing the skills you need to listen to academic lectures or professional presentations and listen to and respond appropriately in various social situations.

Our books and materials have been developed specifically for the needs of our clients. Error correction and specific feedback on your listening comprehension and summaries will push you to improve. Our research-based instruction and skill-based curriculum will quickly lead to a noticeable increase in your English language listening skills. This course is for students who can listen and understand at an Intermediate, or B1 level of English. 

By the end of the course, students will be able to show skills in the following areas after listening to a 10-15 minute audio/video program on academic topics:

• Identify the stated main ideas independently by answering open-ended questions which are related to the whole passage, using their own words.

• Identify major and minor details independently by answering factual information questions.

• Paraphrase by restating a paragraph in writing using different vocabulary and grammar.

• Summarize using notes to produce a written summary of 5-7 sentences by supplying the main ideas in their own words with important details.

• Make inferences (logical, informational) about unstated topics and main ideas, author’s purpose, and tone by answering questions that include the verbs “to imply”, “to suggest”, or “to infer” and that are related to the explicitly stated information in the passage.

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