Course Description:
The purpose of learning English is to use it! This section of Freshman English is designed as an interactive and student-centered workshop to help students improve their listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities in English. Using resources such as English interviews, news videos, articles, and intriguing TED talks, we will focus on issues in the contemporary world. Students are expected to spend one to two hours a week to prepare for class, probably including reading an article, listening to an interview, or watching a video. In class, “the Topic of the Week” will be explored through group presentations, and we will have different workshops such as Writing workshop, Speech workshop, Pronunciation workshop, News English workshop, and Reading workshop. For the assignments, students will write three paragraphs in this semester and give a 5-minute speech and a group presentation.