Freshman
Aural-Oral Training Spring 2004
Audio-Visual
Building 201 Wednesday 8:10am-10:00am
Instructor: Karen Steffen Chung
Please
see the syllabus for Fall 2003 for
basic information on this course.
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Poetry: English Prosody Plus Selected Literary Terms
1.
Listening assignment for week of February 18-25:
I
Love Lucy: Breaking the Lease
2.
Listening assignment for week of February 25-March 3: How
To Find a Husband after Thirty-five
3. Listening assignment for week of March 3-10: Monologue by Ellen DeGeneres
4. Listening
assignment for week of March 10-17: PBS Kids: It's My
Life
5. Listening
assignment for week of March 17-24: Mars
Exploration Rover Mission: First Person - Ayanna Howard
6.
Listening
assignment for week of March 24-31: Gunsmoke:
Indian Baby (I)
7.
Listening
assignment for week of March 31-April 7: Gunsmoke:
Indian Baby (II)
8.
Listening
assignment for week of April
7-14: Popular song "Between"
by Vienna Teng
9.
Listening assignment for week of April 14-21: Oprah
Winfrey's After the Show: Incredible
Stories of Survival, Part Two
10. Listening assignment for week of April 21-28:
Correct
your You've
Got Mail transcription
against the one at the link
(and please e-mail me
if you find any errors in this transcription); then categorize
your errors as follows: (1) omitted word or extra word; (2) wrong word (because
of mishearing or lack of clarity of one or more consonants? vowel(s)? stress?
number of syllables?); (3) wrong grammatical form, e.g. problem of (a) verb
agreement; (b) verb tense; (c) singular/plural; (4) misspelling/typo.
11.
Listening assignment for week of April 28-May 5:
National Public Radio Morning Edition:
When Walking Fails
12.
Listening assignment for week of May 5-12: CBC: Rats
13.
Listening assignment for week of May 12-19: MPR:
Coach Said Not To
14.
Listening assignment for week of May 19-26: Design
your own listening assignment! Find an interesting audio file on
the Internet suitable for use as a listening comprehension exercise; prepare
a vocabulary list for it and 10-15 listening comprehension questions.
15.
Listening assignment for week of May 26-June 2:
Interview
with Michelle Pfeiffer on her role in the movie "I am Sam"
16.
Listening assignment for week of June 2-9: NPR:
Five Years after Columbine