Elective
Advanced English 進階英文選修班
Fall 2001
Instructor:
Karen Steffen Chung 史嘉琳 台大外文系講師
E-mail: karchung@ccms.ntu.edu.tw
Website: http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung
The purpose of the course is to provide an enriched English learning experience for qualified students. It will consist mainly of:
(1) Novel reading: We will start by reading Jane Austen's Persuasion. Price: NT$150 at Bookman Books 書林; with discount NT$128.
(2) Poetry: We will try to learn one poem a week (from handout), to be memorized for recitation. Emphasis will be on analysis, discussion, and the rhythms of poetry reading.
(3) Vocabulary building: Students will work to actively build their English vocabularies based on class and individual reading. Emphasis will be on high-frequency academic vocabulary, of the kind that often appears on college entrance exams.
(4) Grammar: Basic grammatical terms and functions will be reviewed in class; textbook: Ellsworth, Blanche & John Higgins. 1992. English Grammar Simplified. HarperCollins College Publishers. NT$180, NT$153 with discount.
(5) Writing: You will be given various writing assignments, including journal writing, essays, and creative writing, e.g. short stories and poems.
(6) Miscellaneous: Other activities may be included based on student interests, as time permits, e.g. discussion of current events.
Vocabulary
for Persuasion
Essays:
How I Readjusted to Taiwan
Some
resources on Stephen Hawking (relating
to the quote assigned for reading
aloud November 16-23): Professor Hawking's Web site: http://www.hawking.org.uk/home/hindex.htmll
and an interesting article from the BBC on the man who may become Stephen Hawking's
voice: http://www.hawking.org.uk/home/hindex.htmll
Listen to Stephen Hawking speak with his voice synthesizer: http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/davidfest/hawking/
Classic
Notes biography of Robert Louis Stevenson: http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_robert_stevenson.html
The
complete poems of Robert Louis Stevenson:
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/stevenson/stevenson.html
The
collected poems of William Butler Yeats: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5379/yeats_index.htmll
Books
and writers: Walter de la Mare: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/delamare.htm
The
Life and Times of Henry D. Thoreau:
http://libws66.lib.niu.edu/thoreau/bexhibit.htm
Poetry
Exhibits: e.
e. cummings