Speaking for Informal Interaction

Description & Class Schedule

This course provides students with practical knowledge and skills of Speaking for Informal
Interaction. It gives opportunities for students to practice the expressions used in informal
communication with various topics such as greetings and leave-takings, introducing one’s self, giving,
accepting, and rejecting invitations, apologizing, expressing anger and resolving conflicts, giving and
replying compliments, agreeing and disagreeing ideas, and getting information to name a few. At the
end of the semester, students are able to use the expressions in making conversations in their daily
lives in informal settings.

SESSIONS TOPICS
1 Description of the course
6-10 Feb. Contract of the course (requirements & evaluation system)
Assessment of students’ speaking skills
2 Unit 1. Openings and Closings
13-17 Feb.  Greetings
 Pre-closings and closings

Assignment: page 9.
Assessment 1: Role-play
3 Unit 2. Introductions and address system
20-24 Feb.  Introductions
 The address system

Assignment: page 20.

Assessment 2: Role-play
4 Unit 3. Invitations
27 Feb. –  Making the invitation
3 Mar.  Accepting the invitation
 Refusing the invitation
 Non-invitations
 Problems with invitations

Assignment: page 31.

Assessment 3: Role-play
5 Unit 4. Thanking people and replying to thanks
6-20 Mar.  Thanking for gifts
 Thanking for favors
 Thanking for compliments and wishes of success
 Thanking for interest in your health
 Thanking for invitations
 Thanking for leaving a party
 Thanking for other services
Assignment: page 43.
 Assessment 4: Role-play
6 Unit 5. Apologizing
13-17 Mar.  The form
 Responding to an apology

Assignment: page 53.

Assessment 5: Role-play
7 Unit 6. Expressing anger and resolving conflict
20-24 Mar.  Expressing anger
 Resolving conflict

Assignment: page 64.

Assessment 6: Role-play
8 Mid-term test
27-30 Mar.
9  Class Project Assignment
3-7 Apr. Unit 7. Giving compliments and replying to compliments
 What to compliment
 How to compliment
 Replying to compliments

Assignment: page 72.

Assessment 7: Role-play
10 Unit 8. Getting people’s attention and interrupting
10-14 Apr.  Getting people’s attention (in a restaurant/store, in class, on the street, in an
office)
 Interrupting people

Assignment: page 82.

Assessment 8: Role-play
11 Unit 9. Agreeing and disagreeing
17-21 Apr.  Agreeing with someone
 Disagreeing with someone

Assignment: page 91
Assessment 9: Role-play
12 Unit 10. Controlling the conversation
24-28 Apr.  Showing attention
 Showing surprise
 Changing the subject
 Getting someone to repeat or slowdown

Assignment: page 101-102.

Assessment 10: Role-play
13 Unit 11. Getting information
 1-5 May  Calling on the telephone
 Asking someone on the street
 In a store

Assignment: page 110-111.

Assessment 11: Role-play
14 Class Project Submission/Performance
8-12 May
15 Review all units
15-19 May
16 Final-term test
22-26 May

Evaluation system:

The percentage of scoring system is 100%, consisted of:

Active participation 10% (ten percent)

Project 30% (thirty percent)
Assignments 10% (ten percent)
Assessments 10% (ten percent)
Mid Term Test 20% (twenty percent)
Final Term Test 20% (twenty percent)

The results of the final scores (grades) are as follows:

91 – 100 = A
86 – 90 = A-
81 – 85 = B+
76 – 80 = B
71 – 75 = B-
66 – 70 = C+
61 – 65 = C
56 – 60 = C-
50 – 55 = D
< 50 = E