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Arizona State University

Everyday English: Conversations and Social Topics

Arizona State University via Coursera

Overview

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In this course, you continue practicing English through everyday conversations about health and travel. You discuss healthy and unhealthy routines, build vocabulary related to healthy lifestyles, and use adverbs of frequency to describe habits. You also practice giving and receiving advice and suggestions with modals such as should and could. In the travel module, you expand travel-related vocabulary and describe past travel experiences, including challenging ones. You learn to differentiate and apply the present perfect simple and past tense when talking about past events. Course activities include conversations, readings, reading comprehension checks, Language Bite lessons, practice activities, graded quizzes, Conversation Cafe preparation, and listening activities. Through these tasks, you practice using English to explain routines, offer suggestions, and tell stories about travel experiences.

Syllabus

  • Health
    • This module focuses on health and well-being, covering vocabulary related to healthy lifestyles, discussing routines using adverbs of frequency, and practicing how to give advice and make suggestions.
  • Travel
    • This module delves into travel experiences, expanding vocabulary related to travel, and mastering the use of the present perfect simple and past tense to describe past events.

Taught by

John Deal, Director ASU Global Launch

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