ESL 9064 - Listening and Persuasive Speech Course

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This course helps you develop your conversational English skills and improve your fluency in English overall. Students learn how to handle questions and answers more skillfully, how to present ideas orally, how to disagree respectfully, and how to manage conversations sensitively. This is done by providing content-based language learning making use of authentic and adapted materials. Students take responsibility for their own learning by participating in learner-centered activities. Notes: Since there is no formal instruction in grammar in this course, you should register in the appropriate ESL beginner or intermediate class (depending on your interview results) if you have grammar problems.

Recommended: You are best to have high-intermediate or advanced English skills prior to taking this course.

Fee: $325
Hours: 40

Spring/Summer 2026 Semester

The CRN, date, time, location and registration place for the course
CRNDateDayTimeDelivery MethodRegistration Place

81273

May 25 – July 20, 2026Mon & Wed6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Room 611 at 200 King St E

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Land Acknowledgement

George Brown Polytechnic is located on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and other Indigenous peoples who have lived here over time. We are grateful to share this land as treaty people who learn, work and live in the community with each other.