Upcoming Electives

Fall 2 2009 Electives: Oct. 26 - Dec. 8

No class November 26th and 27th

All electives are six weeks in length and meet in the O’Keefe Building on campus. (Download the application)

Word Power Plus: Building Test Vocabulary

• Intermediate-Advanced (500-700 Level)
• 12 contact hours
• 3:05-3:55 p.m. Tuesdays & Thursdays
• Cost: $100

This course will help you learn strategies for increasing vocabulary, including use of context clues, analysis of word parts, and mnemonics. This class will familiarize you with common vocabulary question types on the GRE exam. You will learn some of the most frequently tested words on the GRE.

Making a Movie

• Advanced (500-700 Level)
• 12 contact hours
• 2:05-3:55 p.m. Wednesdays
• Cost: $100

Practice all the language skills, speaking, listening, writing, and reading, while making a class movie. Learn the basics of using movie-editing software and, make a Web site for the class film.

The movie will be about interesting places to visit around Atlanta. We start by reading about Atlanta sites to help us learn the information we'll need. Then we watch some documentary movies to help us plan our film and learn some film techniques while working on our listening skills.

Once we have a plan for our film, we will practice interviewing techniques and conduct some preliminary interviews on campus to develop our speaking skills. Next,we’ll visit some places in Atlanta to film for our movie. Finally, we'll put the film together!

GMAT/GRE Preparation

• Advanced (600-700 Level)
• 6 contact hours
• Time: 3:05-3:55 p.m. Fridays
• Required Text: none
• Cost: $50 for current LI students
  $100 for non-LI students

In this class, you will learn strategies for writing the issue and argument essays on the GMAT and GRE and how readers score essays. Particular emphasis will be placed on how to approach the various types of questions on the argument essay. You will learn by brainstorming the argument and ways to support it, learning appropriate grammar structures, and analyzing models of argument essays.

Podcasting for Pronunciation

• Intermediate to Advanced (500-700 Level)
• 6 contact hours
• Time: 3:05-3:55 p.m. Tuesdays
• Required Text: none
• Cost: $50 for current LI students
  $100 for non-LI students
  

This class offers an opportunity to practice oral skills while producing an international music podcast that everyone at the Language Institute can enjoy.  In addition, we will learn the basics of using sound editing software.

TOEFL Courses

iBT TOEFL Preparation: Skills & Practice—Reading

• Intermediate to Advanced (400-700 Level)
• 6 contact hours
• Time: 2:05-2:55 p.m. Mondays
• Required Text: Delta’s Key to the Next Generation TOEFL Test, By Nancy Gallagher (available at the GT Bookstore)
• Cost: $50 for current LI students
  $100 for non-LI students

Improve your reading skills. Practice reading academic passages and answering questions that measure your ability to understand and analyze the meaning of the passages. Practice multiple-choice question types to measure your ability to understand main ideas, details, inferences, discourse, and vocabulary. Practice new question types in which you demonstrate what you have learned or read by completing a table or a narrative summary, or by choosing a correct paraphrase of a reading.

iBT TOEFL Preparation: Skills & Practice—Speaking

• Intermediate to Advanced (400-700 Level)
• 6 contact hours
• Time: 2:05-2:55 p.m. Tuesdays
• Required Text:Delta’s Key to the Next Generation TOEFL Test, By Nancy Gallagher (available at the GT Bookstore)
• Cost: $50 for current LI students
  $100 for non-LI students

Work on improving your speaking skills. Practice three kinds of speaking tasks. In the first task, you are asked to state explain and support your answer to a question using personal knowledge and experience. In the second task, you are asked to read a short passage and listen to a short talk, then answer a question combining information from the talk and reading passage. In the third task, you listen to a short lecture or conversation, and are asked to summarize key ideas from the talks. Work on your ability to use clear, smooth, sustained speech for overall intelligibility and language use that demonstrates control of grammar and word choice, and organization.

iBT TOEFL Preparation: Skills & Practice—Writing

• Intermediate to Advanced (400-700 Level)
• 6 contact hours
• Time: 2:05-2:55 p.m. Wednesdays
• Required Text: Delta’s Key to the Next Generation TOEFL Test, By Nancy Gallagher. (available at the GT Bookstore)
• Cost: $50 for current LI students
  $100 for non-LI students

Work on improving your writing skills by learning about the two kinds of writing required on the iBT TOEFL. In the first writing task, you are asked to respond to a question using personal knowledge and experience. In the second task, you are asked to read an academic passage and listen to a lecture. Then, you answer a question discussing the key points in the lecture and explain how they relate to the information in the reading passage. Outside of class, you may work on writing essays, which the instructor will score.

iBT TOEFL Preparation: Skills & Practice—Listening

• Intermediate to Advanced (400-700 Level)
• 6 contact hours
• Time: 2:05-2:55 p.m. Thursdays
• Required Text: Delta’s Key to the Next Generation TOEFL Test, By Nancy Gallagher (available at the GT Bookstore)
• Cost: $50 for current LI students
  $100 for non-LI students

Work on improving your listening skills. Practice listening to short and long conversations, academic discussions, and academic lectures. Focus on note-taking skills, idiomatic vocabulary use, and grammar structures that are typically found in spoken English. Practice new question types that measure your ability to understand a speaker's attitude or meaning.