Discussing Academic Courses (Intermediate)

Practice on Your Own

• Make a list of useful words to talk about your academic life as a student. Try to focus more on vocabulary related to studying rather than social life.
  • University, classroom, course/class, teacher/professor, major, to study, student, sociology, biology, physics, chemistry, history, semester, exam…
• Prepare a passage in which you use these terms.
  • I am a student. I study history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I have five classes this semester. On Monday I have two classes, history and math. My history teacher is Professor Smith and my math teacher is Professor Hicks…
• Practice conversations about your academic courses, teachers, etc.
  • What classes do you have? I have three…
  • Who is your teacher? Professor Smith is…
  • When is your history class? It is on…
  • When is your history exam?
  • How many classes do you have? I have five…

Practice in Conversation Session

• Tell your conversation partner about the courses you have this semester. Then be prepared to respond to your conversation partner’s questions about your courses.
• Ask about your conversation partner’s courses. What classes are they taking?
• Have a more extend conversation with your conversation partner about academic courses, weekly schedules, length of classes, names of teacher, if you like a course or not…
• When are you exams? How many semesters do you have left? How long is a semester? …