This course is designed for students at the Intermediate I level (B1) who wish to
improve their listening comprehension skills in English. The course covers a wide
range of social and cultural themes of general interest, based on audiovisual
material from both academic and authentic sources. In particular, this course
enables students to enrich their passive vocabulary (known but not used) and
become familiar with different styles of oral discourse involving one or two speakers.
At the end of the course, students will be able to understand elementary oral
messages in relatively predictable contexts, using socio-cultural and linguistic
knowledge and listening strategies.