Freshman English

Instructor: Li-May Sung
Course Title: Freshman English (with 2-hour Aural Training) (I)
Office: Le-xue Building (樂學館), 3F, Rm 308
Office Phone Number: 3366-4104 Ext 308
Course website: https://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/951freshman
E-mail: limay@ntu.edu.tw
TA E-mail: bensmiley720110@yahoo.com.tw

Course Description:

This course will focus mainly on reading, accompanying with weekly listening tactics and 3 writing exercises per semester.  Regarding to reading, the aim is to help students to approach written material with different objectives, to read for meaning, and to process information and ideas as they read.  For listening tactics, in order to give students experience with listening to a variety of text types, course material would be taken from TV, video clips, and all kinds of audio clips from various textbooks.  As for writing practice, the main purpose aims to help students generate and develop ideas for writing well-organized paragraphs on topics related to different themes.  A writing exercise packet will be distributed in the class.

Required textbooks:

Reading for Real by Manuela Costantino and Toni Dabbs, 2001, Lynx Publishing. (書林)
The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, Penguin Group. (書林)
Writing-skills packet

Recommended Dictionary:

Collins COBUILD: Advanced Learner's English Dictionary (書林)

Evaluation:

Students' grades will be based on assignments, 3 writing exercises, class discussion, presentation, participation, quizzes/exams and one group term paper.

Group Term Paper:

The whole class will be divided into 7-8 teams.  Every team member will be in charge of 1-2 pages (not including illustrations, tables, charts etc.) of a chosen topic. 

 
Class schedule: Fall, 2006

Date

Tuesday (3:30pm-6:20pm)

Topics

September

Wk 1, 9/22

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       General introduction

2.       About building vocabularies (lesson voc/comprehension quiz)

3.       Audio-Visual Building Tour

4.       Demo: English Freeway, TMM

5.       Video Activity (FA1)

6.       Listening Training; Video: Tap. 3, 1 (pair/group work)

5:10pm – 6:10pm

Wk 2, 9/29

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Reading for Real: Lesson 1

2.       Video Activity (FA2, 4)

3.       Listening Training

5:10pm – 6:10pm

October

Wk 3, 10/6

3:30pm – 5:00pm

NO CLASS

5:10pm – 6:10pm

Wk 4, 10/13

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Reading for Real: Lesson 1

2.       Role play

3.       Listening Training

5:10pm – 6:10pm

Wk 5, 10/20

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Reading for Real: Lesson 2

2.       Listening Training; Video: Tap 4, 7

3.       Writing Unit 1

5:10pm – 6:10pm

Wk 6, 10/27

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Reading for Real: Lesson 2:

2.       Listening Training (pair/group work/role play)

3.       Writing Exercise I: free writing

5:10pm – 6:10pm

November

Wk 7, 11/3

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Reading for Real: Lesson 3

2.       Listening Training (pair/group work/role play)

5:10pm – 6:10pm

Wk 8, 11/10

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Reading for Real: Lesson 3

2.       Listening Training; Video: Mo 1, 3

3.       Video Activity (FA6/NI blue 8): Thanksgiving

4.       Final Term Paper Topic Assignment: group project (7-8 teams)

5:10pm – 6:10pm

Wk 9, 11/17

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Midterm Exam Week

5:10pm – 6:10pm

Wk 10, 11/24

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Reading for Real: Lesson 4

2.       Role play

3.       Comprehension Quiz: Charlie

4.       Writing Unit 2: Outline and Topic Sentence

5:10pm – 6:10pm

December

Wk 11, 12/1

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Reading for Real: Lesson 4

2.       Writing Exercise II: Outline and Topic Sentence

3.       Listening Training (pair/group work/role play)

5:10pm – 6:10pm

Wk 12, 12/8

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Reading for Real: Lesson 5

2.       Listening Training; CNN video clip: “Anatomy of a Breakout”

5:10pm – 6:10pm

Wk 13, 12/15

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Reading for Real: Lesson 5

2.       Listening Training (pair/group work/role play)

5:10pm – 6:10pm

Wk 14, 12/22

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Quiz (Lesson 4 and Lesson 5)

2.       Preparing for group project

3.       Writing Unit 3: Summarizing (Charlie)

5:10pm – 6:10pm

Wk 15, 12/29

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Reading for Real: Lesson 6

2.       Oral Practicing (3 mins per person): English Freeway: Advanced English

5:10pm – 6:10pm

January

Wk 16, 1/5

3:30pm – 5:00pm

1.       Reading for Real: Lesson 6

2.       Oral Practicing (3 mins per person): English Freeway: Advanced English

5:10pm – 6:10pm

Wk 17, 1/12

3:30pm – 5:00pm

LAST CLASS

1.       Writing Exercise III: Summarizing

2.       Group term paper due

5:10pm – 6:10pm
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