Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7 - How's your course going? for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Listen to two colleagues on a break at work. They talk about a course the woman is doing. Take notes about the following.

Answer

  1. a counselling course for speech therapists – basic counselling skills – guide people through psychological problems people have when they have a difficulty with speaking. 
  2. very practical; some lectures and seminars about theory, but mainly practise with each other, tutor observes and gives feedback
  3. tutors are experienced and knowledgeable, clear, really good; students mostly get on; two guys aren’t as supportive as everyone else and can be a bit more critical in practice sessions
  4. a six-month course – an evening a week
  5. get a certificate for completing the course; have to attend 80% of the classes and do an assignment – a kind of diary of counselling sessions – and a bit of reading