Freshman English

Spring 2017
Mondays 外教 101, class periods 3/4, 10:20am-12:10pm,
Wednesdays 新生大樓 403, class periods 1/2, 8:10-10:00am

Professor Karen Steffen Chung 史嘉琳
E-mail: karchung@ntu.edu.tw

TA: Andrea Lay 賴宜謙
Email: b03102023@ntu.edu.tw

Important dates and holidays

Spring 2017: 31 class meetings

     There will be 31 class meetings this semester:

February 2017: 20, 22, 27 (Holiday; no class);
March: 1, 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27, 29;
April: 3 (Holiday; no class), 5 (Holiday; no class); 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26;
May: 1, 3, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24, 29 (Holiday; no class); 31;
June: 5, 7. 12, 14.
Final exam: Wednesday, June 21, 2017新生大樓 403

Important dates: Spring 2017:
Cancel-add: February 20-March 4 (online cancel: till March 5)
February 28 holiday (no class): Monday, February 27 and Tuesday February 28
Finalization of class schedules: March 13-17
Application period for withdrawing from a course: March 6-May 19
NTU Azelea Festival begins: March 11
Tomb-Sweeping Holiday (no class on Monday April 4): April 3-5
Online application for second chance at exemption
from advanced English class (subject to change): March 20-24
Taiwan University marathon: March 25
Mid-semester online student course evaluations: April 10-21
Mid-terms (no midterm will be given for this class): April 17-21
End-of-semester online student course evaluations: June 2-15
Last day of class: Friday, June 16
Final exams: June 19-23
Final exam: Wednesday, June 21, 10:20-12:10pm, in 新生大樓 403
Summer Vacation begins on: June 26

Facebook groups

Class Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1078543075564938/

Karen on Ivy League Analytical English Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Karen-on-Ivy-League-Analytical-English/234235001756



IPA Input

i2Speak
Online KK symbol editor page
IPA Symbols  (pdf)

Articles

First 18 CET articles in one single pdf file
English Island articles: (titles with links)

2015: 同學，給我一點Feedback
2016: 中文變好，英文也跟著好了
2016: 看「中文字幕」會影響英文聽力嗎？   local copy
December 2016: 到底是Yes還是No?  local copy

Phrasal verbs article
Schwa Elision in English  (Phonetics I page 32)
Contractions  (Phonetics I page 33)



Checking collocations and grammar

Using Google as a Usage Barometer, by Jerome C. Su
Other articles on English corpora
CET article part 2
Linggle
Wordnet



Format

Parentheses and quote marks:
CORRECT: LEAVE A SPACE (BEFORE AND AFTER) PARENTHESES and "DOUBLE QUOTES",
but don't leave a space if immediately followed by a comma, period, or other similar punctuation.

WRONG: You forgot AGAIN to LEAVE A SPACE(BEFORE AND AFTER)PARENTHESES!

Email format template
英文 Email 潛規則老師怎麼不早點教我？！ 文／ 熊偌均
Format for name on homework: in upper right hand corner, left justified (link to Word/pdf file):

Iris Lin 林玉梅
B01102000
Freshman English Week One
February 20, 2017

Use: Times New Roman 12 pt for text,
Lucida Sans Unicode 10.5pt for IPA symbols,
新細明體 12pt for 中文

Regarding your notes:
1. Class notes, not: Class note!
2. Print on BOTH sides of the paper.
3. Leave a SPACE outside of (parentheses) and "quote marks",
and leave a SPACE AFTER periods and commas, but NOT BEFORE!
4. <> are not used in English. Use italics to mark a book title.
5. Use the correct font style and size!
6. Watch for 左邊對齊 left justification.
7. "Summary", not "summarization".
8. If you "borrowed" (i.e. copied) somebody else's notes,
write clearly at the top of the first page who you borrowed the notes from.

Bibliographic format:
Austin, Jane. 2000. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Readers Level 3).
Retold by Cherry Gilchrist. New York: Penguin. 46pp. Paper.

English formatting workbook (Good for practice)
Punctuation explained


Online dictionaries with audio files
The Free Dictionary (US and UK pronunciation; fast and reliable)
Merriam-Webster (US)
Dictionary.com (US (check); includes IPA spellings, word frequency information)
Oxford Learners Dictionary
Cambridge Learners Dictionary
Macmillan Dictionary (UK and US)
OneLook Free Dictionary (Good for patttern searches)

YouEnglish (find phrases pronounced in context in YouTube videos)
Mark Zuckerberg speaks Chinese at Tsinghua University, Beijing October 24, 2015
Taiwanese man protests criticism of his English pronunciation (video):
搭機前先考英文　留美碩士怒批刁難 | 即時新聞 | 20151031 | 蘋果日報


Vocabulary and grammar

Andrea's online vocabulary flash cards

Oxford Picture Dictionary (pdf) (old)

English-Chinese Oxford Picture Dictionary, 2nd edition.
Adelson-Goldstein, Jayme & Norma Shapiro. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2009.
Available at 台大出版中心 （總圖旁）

This is a collection of the most high-frequency and useful words in English.
You may know many of them already, but almost certainly not all of them.
Setting up a program for yourself to learn a few pages of the vocabulary a day -
the pictures make it easier - means you are likely to have important words
ready when you need them in a pinch.

Scott Cuthbert's two books



Books and audio books
Goodreads
2017 Goodreads Reading Challenge
Librivox audio books
Gutenberg books online
Sample simplified novels
Best novels in English lists: 1  2  3



Written exercises

Practice exercises for phrase and compound noun stress
Four-task handout  
  1. compound noun stress, 2. [s] vs. [z],
  3. schwa elision, 4. sp-/st-/sk- desaspiration
Collections of compound nouns and noun phrases (from a previous class)  pdf


Videos and Powerpoint slideshows and pdf files

Eight Lessons in Hanyu Pinyin  local copy

Pinyin tone mark converter

Chander's Pinyin slideshow (I)  (II)  (III)
IPA Symbols pdf
The Pomodoro Technique
Andrea's Pomodoro Technique slideshow
Chander's IPA ppt files: (I)  (II)  (III)
IPA Symbols for Mandarin Chinese
Andrea's How We Learn (I) and (II)
Chander's How We Learn (I) and (II)



Software and apps

Audacity
Praat
ELSA app  (English Language Speech Assistant) Pronunciation Coach
Other useful apps
Duolingo


Text-to-Speech (TTS)
1. How to have Alex read to you on an Apple device
（如何在 iPhone 或 iPad 上使用 Alex 搭配 VoiceOver 和文字轉換語音）
2. For Android devices: Google Play: Google Text-to-speech
3. How Text-to-Speech works in Windows 7, Windows 8 and in Windows 10
How to download two more voices



Mini-conversations: With audio files and Echo-ready files

Listening practice

Dictations (mostly monosyllabic minimal sets)
UK news dictations
VoiceTube
TED Talks
TED talk: Teach girls bravery, not perfection,
  by education activist Reshma Saujani of Girls Who Code
TED talk: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator
  by Internet writer Ted Urban

Transcription exercise: WNYC: The Leonard Lopate Show
Subway Rides: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The Grape (2:11 minutes long)
  Original WNYC page

Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase
Snap Judgment  Back of the Bus  Video version

30 Listening Tricks


News media
Register for daily email update from The New York Times (US): https://myaccount.nytimes.com/register
The New York Times homepage: http://www.nytimes.com/
The Guardian
BBC (UK)
NPR (US: National Public Radio)
CNN (US)

index

Podcasts


index


Storytelling

Storytelling exercise
Prepare to tell an extemporaneous story about something that you experienced
over winter break. It must have a story arc (also called a narrative arc), with:

1. Exposition: The introduction of the story in which characters are introduced, setting is revealed.
2. Rising Action: A series of events that complicate matters for the protagonist, creating a rise in the story's suspense or tension.
3. Climax: The point of greatest tension in the story and the turning point in the narrative arc from rising action to falling action.
4. Falling Action: After the climax, the unfolding of events in a story's plot and the release of tension leading toward the resolution.
5. Resolution: The end of the story, typically, in which the problems of the story and of the protagonists are resolved.

    Source

Breaktime music
Affair on 8th Avenue  Gordon Lightfoot  lyrics
American Tune  Paul Simon (1973)  lyrics
  American Tune, sung by both Simon and Garfunkel:
  Piece from J. S. Bach's St. Matthew's Passion ("O Sacred Head, How Wounded")
  that inspired the melody of American Tune (this piece was in turn based
  on an earlier secular piece entitled "Mein G'müt ist mir verwirret" 1562-1612):
  Peter, Paul and Mary also sang a song with the same tune, "Because All Men Are Brothers" (1965)
Ballad of Accounting  Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger  lyrics
Behind the Wall  Tracy Chapman  lyrics
Be My Number Two (with lyrics)  Joe Jackson  lyrics
Between  Vienna Teng  史逸欣  lyrics
Black Cadillac  Rosanne Cash  lyrics
Breaking Us in Two  video with lyrics  Joe Jackson  lyrics
China (1992)  China (with lyrics)  Tori Amos  lyrics
Christmas carols  Word  pdf
College Humor: Awkward Rap
Crimes of the Heart  Amanda McBroom  lyrics
Desperado  The Eagles   HD  lyrics 
Don't Stay in School  Boyinaband David Brown (rap)
  Reacting to “Don’t Stay in School” hate comments
Father and Son  Cat Stevens  lyrics
Hurt  Nine Inch Nails  cover by Johnny Cash  lyrics
Imagine  John Lennon  lyrics
Insensitive  Jann Arden  lyrics
I Wanna Talk about Me (Country-Western rap)  video with lyrics  lyrics
  written by Bobby Braddock  sung by Toby Keith
Kemo Kimo  Nat King Cole
Laurie  Dickey Lee  lyrics
My dame has a lame tame crane  English children's song for [eI] + nasal practice
Ode to Billy Joe  Bobbie Gentry (1968)  Second recording  lyrics
  Events in the song take place in the US southern state of Mississippi.
  Note the Southern dialect used, the conversations, and mentions of Southern-style food.
Oh My Love  John Lennon  studio version  lyrics
People are strange (with lyrcis)   Jim Morrison and The Doors  lyrics
Perfect  Alanis Morissette  from the album "Jagged Little Pill"  lyrics
Piano Man  Billy Joel  With lyrics
She's Always a Woman to Me  Live (1978)  Billy Joel  lyrics
Stairway to Heaven  Led Zeppelin  with lyrics (1971)  lyrics
   Compare to Taurus, by Spirit (tried unsuccessfully to sue Led Zeppelin for copyright infringement)
Taxi  Harry Chapin  video with lyrics  lyrics
The Angel (1969)  Buffy Sainte-Marie
The Monster Mash (1962)  Bobby "Boris" Pickett  lyrics  (for Halloween)
They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-haaa! (1966)  Napoleon XIV (Jerry Samuels) (novelty song)
Tom's Diner  Suzanne Vega  video with lyrics  lyrics
Winter  Tori Amos   With lyrics  
Working At The Car Wash Blues  Jim Croce  lyrics
You Don't Know Me  Ben Folds  with Regina Spektor  video with lyrics  lyrics


index

Pronunciation: Songs and cartoons

My dame has a lame tame crane  English children's song for [eI] + nasal practice
Sesame Street: Demonstration of how the "Echo Method" works
Learn phonics with "Silent E"
Learn English adverb formation with the "LY" song


Good TV series

Gilmore Girls
Mind Your Language (British: 1977)
Silicon Valley
Six Feet Under
The Big Bang Theory
The Mindy Project
The Simpsons
  The Many "D'oh"s of Homer Simpson
The Wonder Years

Language exchange sites
italki
Lang-8
Floom (check)
Others