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.

     Click here for the Poetry and Prose for Memorization and Reading Aloud handout for Spring 2004; here's the Spring 2004 poetry handout in Word format for printing out.
     Find more poems online yourself.
     Click here for the About Poetry: English Prosody Plus Selected Literary Terms
handout. (Refer to this for definitions of terms like iambic, doggerel, and synaesthesia.)


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

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