The tasks highlight specific reading problems and are meant to drill the student in reading practices in order to increase comprehension accuracy and speed of their reading. They will be reading in second semester to further develop speed with comprehension. Pair and group work and team presentations will be a feature of this class. They will be given task sheets which will give them points to listen for, body-language to observe, and structures and patterns to memorise. The hour following will consist of students practising the patterns, learning the expressions, emulating the body language and generally trying to achieve the skills necessary to function in that particular situation.
Students are very welcome to see staff personally.
The best way would be to email the staff member for an appointment. Of course students are also very welcome to email staff at any time with any question or problem. This would be preferable to phoning, since staff may be difficult to reach by phone because of their other teaching duties. We will be setting up a major-domo email link exclusively for HMJ202 students. This means students can email that address to start a discussion on a particular question or problem in the unit, whether it is a grammar or vocabulary question, or a suggestion about improvement in teaching methods or whatever.