週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
第1週 |
9/09 |
Introduction to the course; Reading: Shakespeare's sonnets (Sonnet 18); Listening: Taped Library Tour; Self Study: VOA (The Class Room) |
第2週 |
9/16 |
Reading: "The Open Window" (by Saki)+ Shakespeare's Sonnets (Sonnet 130); Note Taking: "The Life of Charles Dickens" (BBC animation); Self Study: ELLLO Games |
第3週 |
9/23 |
Reading: Poems: "The Owl and the Pussycat" (by Edward Lear) + "Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face" (by Jack Prelutsky) + "Where the Sidewalk Ends" (by Shel Silverstein); "All the World's the Stage (by William Shakespeare); Gap Fill:"The Life of Charles Dickens"; Lab: "A Double Life" |
第4週 |
9/30 |
Reading: "The Elephant's Child" (by Rudyard Kipling); Note Taking: How English Acquires New Words |
第5週 |
10/07 |
Reading: "How the Whale Got His Throat" (by Rudyard Kipling); Gap Fill: "How English Acquires New Words"; Self Study: "Language Schools"+ "Prince Albert and the Jewel Robbers" |
第6週 |
10/14 |
Student presentations ("How English Acquires New Words"); Note Taking: "Student Credit-Card Debts"; Introduction to Writing (1): The Topic Sentence |
第7週 |
10/21 |
Listening Test (I); J.K. Rowling on Names in _Harry Potter_; Introduction to Writing (2)--the Writing assignment (I) |
第8週 |
10/28 |
Reading: "The Raven" (pp. 4-6); Student Presentations ("Money-saving Strategies"); Gap Fill: "Student Credit-card Debt" + "Language Schools" |
第9週 |
11/04 |
Oral Presentations: Student Credit Card Debt; Reading: "Vincent" (by Tim Burton); Discussion and gap fill: "American Women, Changing Their Names" |
第10週 |
11/11 |
Writing Assignment due; Readings: "The New Colossus," "Warning," "American Women Changing Their Names"; Student Presentations ("Student Credit Card Debt"); Note Taking: "Discoveries of Christopher Columbus" |
第11週 |
11/18 |
Reading: "The Fringe Benefits of Failure,and the Importance of Imagination" ; Oral Presentations ("Student Credit Card Debt"); Gap Fill: "Discoveries of Christopher Columbus" |
第12週 |
11/25 |
Reading:"The Fringe Benefits of Failure,and the Importance of imagination" ; Tips on writing (3); Listening: "The Abolition of Slave Trade" (BBC Learning English); |
第13週 |
12/02 |
Listening Test (II); Tips on Writing (4);
Student Presentations ("The Discoveries of Christopher Columbus); Listening: "Abolition of Slave Trade" + "Chinese Warriors in London" (BBC Learning English) |
第14週 |
12/09 |
Reading: "The Mindset List 2017; Student Presentations ("The Discoveries of Christopher Columbus"); Tips on Writing (5); Note Taking: "Body Image Disorders" |
第15週 |
12/16 |
"Signs and Symbols" (by Vladmir Nabokov); Student Oral Presentations ("The Discoveries of Christopher Columbus"); Gap Fill: Body Image Disorders |
第16週 |
12/23 |
Writing Assignment II due; Student Presentations; Reading: "Signs and Symbols" (by Vladmir Nabokov); Listening: Michael Moore on 911 |
第17週 |
12/30 |
Readings: (1) "A Musical Instrument" (by Elizabeth Barrett Browning); (2) Michael Moore on 911; Listening: "Taxi" (BBC Learning English); Listening: "Debate Over US Flag Designer Continued" |
第18週 |
1/06 |
Final exam |