Join us for a variety of oral communication activities designed for international and other non-native English speaking students to practice with native speakers of American English!  Skills in speaking fluency, pronunciation, listening, vocabulary, and cultural knowledge will be developed through fun interactions such as role plays, impromptu speeches, games and humor, discussions and debate, slang and idioms, functional language for academic and everyday life, and more! 

Registration is required.  Maximum capacity 16 international/non-native speaking students.(Native speakers will be invited by instructor.)

Topics for Communication Activity Sessions

Ice-breakers

Role plays - Life and culture

Fluency

Active Listening/Reporting

Pronunciation 

Impromptu speeches

TV Broadcast: News from your country

Job interview simulation

Conversation topic discussions

Hot topics / debates

Jokes and humor

English songs

Design and advertise a product

Vocabulary, slang, idioms, common expressions

Functional language - thanking, inviting, interrupting, etc.

Pronouncing and using numbers

Language games, brain teasers, trivia quizzes

And more!  (Students may suggest topics and activities that would be useful for them)