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Habilidades Orais - B1/B2
Academic
Oral
Skills
32 horas
B1/B2
Table of Contents
1_Interviews
University Life......................................................................................................................................4
College Interviews...........................................................................................................................7
2_Presentations
Current Events..................................................................................................................................16
Research and data presentations...................................................................................26
3_Discusions
Slam Poetry, rap, and social issues.............................................................................34
Facebook Discussions....................................................................................................................41
4_Debates
Stump Speeches..................................................................................................................................47
Parliamentary Debates.............................................................................................................52
1_Interviews..........................................................................................................................................................12
2_Presentations................................................................................................................................................31
3_Discussions.......................................................................................................................................................45
4_Debates...............................................................................................................................................................56
Warm Up
1) Read the profiles for five scholarship applicants. Select one student for
each scholarship
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Pre-Listening
2) Which of the following actions are more likely to be part of the daily
life of a university student? Check any that apply.
( ) Wake up early ( ) Attend meetings in a club
( ) Attend Classes ( ) Read research papers
( ) Eat breakfast ( ) Write summaries
Listening
4) Anthony is a freshman at Harvard. Watch the video below and answer the
questions:
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Over to You
5) When living abroad, it is important to be careful not to make a blunder,
because of the cultural differences of the country of your choice. Discuss
with your classmates the following sentences below and choose which are
TRUE or FALSE, according to the American culture in the academic environ-
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College Interviews
Warm Up
6) Look at the information below and learn how the american educational
system is organized
7) Compare the information above to other educational systems you know and
write some notes for further discussion
_______________ System __________________ System
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8) Do you know what are the required documents in order to apply for a
college position in the U.S.A? Write (AS) for american students, (FS) for fo-
reign students or (BO) for both american and foreign students
( ) High school transcript
( ) Average G.P.A.(Grade Point Average)
( ) Proficiency certificate
( ) G.R.E. (Graduate Record Examination)
( ) Recommendation letters
( ) Curriculum Vitae
( ) College transcript
( ) Statement of purpose
( ) SAT/ACT scores
9) You intend to go to graduate program in the US. As a foreign student,
what Grad School Exam you need to take before applying?
What kind of topics\subjects do you expect to find in each test? What kind of
questions?
Take a look at the table below and relate each of them with one of the
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Pre-listening
10) Read the statements below and say if they should always be carried on,
regardless of the culture\country\company you are in
listening
11) Listen to a student comment on a failed interview and complete the blanks
using the given words
The (1) _____________ told me to show up very informal, so I didnt know whether
to come with (2) _____________ casual dress or just casual dress, or what he (3)
______________. That interview started off kind of strange, in that I didnt really (4)
___________ to him about what he wanted me to show up as. He (5)
_____________ with me and that was my first real kind of (6) _______________
for anything. I didnt do any practice interviews. I didnt have any (7)
________________ at all. I didnt even know what he was going to (8)
____________ . So, he caught me off guard with some of the questions. So, it
amounted to not a good interview (9) ________________, overall. From that fai-
led interview, I learned that I should definitely be (10) __________________ and
really do what people ask.
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Over to You
12) Which of the questions below are more likely to be asked in a college in-
terview?
13) Can you think of other possible questions that are asked during a college
interview?
14) Work with a partner. Ask and answer the questions above.
Body Language
Pre-Activity
15) In job or academic interviews, having the knowledge required for the posi-
tion and answering correctly the questions made by the interviewer may not
be enough. Some studies point out that body language, facial expressions and
gestures account for 55% of the communication process. Discuss with your
classmates what you think that the following body expressions communicate
to other people and to you and which ones you should avoid in an interview
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Activity
16) Now, listen to the video below with 7 body language tips to impress at
your next job interview, and write down what messages each body expression
send according to the speaker
c) Keep changing your body posture or playing with your buttom on your shirt:
______________________________________________________________________
d) Palm upwards:
______________________________________________________________________
f) Steepling:
______________________________________________________________________
Over to You
17) Act out a college interview with a partner. Use the information you re-
searched to create a good interview
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Further Practice
listening
18) Watch the following video in which a student answers questions for an
academic interview.
Available at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55y_6IKFvCI
19) Choose the sentence in the right column that best completes the words or
expressions in the left column, according to the video:
Over to You
20) Now that you know that reporting personal experience as well as expe-
rience in the field can be used to support your answers, get prepared to your
next interview by completing the following chart
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Years Responsabilities
Activities Hours Position Description
Weeks
Clubs
Leadership
Cultural Experiences
Community Service
Employment
Volunteering
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Language Corner
Consonants:
Aspirated consonants:
Aspirate the sounds of the English voiceless stops /p/, /t/, and /k/ at the be-
ginning of words, like in words beginning with /h/, because they are pro-
nounced with an accompanying forceful expulsion of air:
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Language Corner
Plural Nouns
Verbs in the thrird person
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