Freshman English Listening and Speaking 12 1 12

英語聽講 Freshman English: Listening and Speaking (12)

1. 科目名稱：英語聽講 (12) 英文名稱： Freshman English: Listening and Speaking 科目代號： 203000036

3. Course Description: • The Freshman English: Listening and Speaking course seeks to expose students to a survey of language acquisition drills that help them improve their ability in listening comprehension and speaking proficiency. • The quest for lingual improvement as expressed in the discipline of most ESL rationales is the major thematic focus in this semester. In other words, this is a discipline-specific ESL tutorial session.

• The second component of the course introduces students the basic Sino. Anglophonic contrasts in syntax and semantics. Three major goals of this course are set as follows: 1. To help students promote their audio-oral proficiency in English so that they can better create a global mindset;

2. To awaken students to the reality that English is a linguistic power, or, a first priority in the field of language-related proficiency; 3. To help students adjust themselves to the minute phonetic differences between English and their mother tongue, Mandarin or Taiwanese.

4. Requirements: Students are required to attend class regularly and participate in the in-class activities. Besides several in-class listening and speaking quizzes, students have to take part in two full-length exams during the semester, i. e. , midterm and final exams.

5. Grading: The Ratios of Grade distribution go as follows: in-class quizzes (30%) attendance & class performance (20%), midterm exam (25%), final exam (25%). One point from the final grade will be deducted for each hour of absence.

6. Required Text: • Richards, Jack C. Interchange: Book I. 3 rd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005.

7. Calendar: Sep. 11 Class Orientation, Unit 1. Please call me Beth. “The Zen Teaching of Jesus” Sep. 18 Unit 1. Please call me Beth. Sep. 25 Unit 2. How do you spend your day? Oct. 02 Unit 2. How do you spend your day? Oct. 09 Unit 3. How much is it? (A Tentative Quiz on Listening Comprehension)

Oct. 16 Unit 4. Do you like rap? (A Quiz on “The Zen Teaching of Jesus”) Oct. 23 Unit 4. Do you like rap? Oct. 30 Unit 5. Tell me about your family. Nov. 06 Midterm Exam (An Unforgettable Interview with Tom) Nov. 13 Unit 5. Tell me about your family. Nov. 20 Unit 6. How often do you exercise? (A Quiz on Listening Comprehension)

Nov. 27 Dec. 04 Dec. 11 Dec. 18 Dec. 25 Jan. 01 Jan. 08 Unit 6. How often do you exercise? Unit 7. We had a great time! Short Play Rehearsal Recapitulation Holiday Final Exam (A Short Play Contest)

8. Read-Aloud Material: Dynamic Meditation It may appear that the experience of true beauty is very difficult to achieve. This is definitely not true. In fact, the experience of beauty often arises naturally and unexpectedly.

Several weeks ago, I went kiting with my children. It was a fine day. I have not flown a kite for a long time, and I am very glad that I did it again. For I discovered the beauty of kiting that day. To see the kite take off in the wind, to let it soar into the heights, to feel the tightness of the string in my hand to run around laughing and screaming like a child—all these add up to an exhilarating experience.

It was such a tremendous feeling of liberation. For a while, it looked as if the world was just one big kite, soaring into the blue sky. There was a lot of action in the sport, but I felt a genuine sense of stillness and harmony at the same time. I was one with the game. I was doing dynamic meditation. —Kenneth S. Leong in The Zen Teachings of Jesus