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Course: General English (Freshman) Course No.: FTDBA

Instructor: Dr. Adeline Teo Office: SF 829

Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 12:10 - 12:50 Thursday 13:40 - 14:30

Classroom: LB404

Dates: Every Friday 10:10 am-12:00 noon Objectives:

The objectives of this course are to help promote students’ knowledge in vocabulary, grammar, American culture, commonly used adverbial phrases in American English, as well as their skills in reading strategies, listening comprehension, and oral fluency.

Students will participate in activities such as learning English through music, vocabulary building, guided reading, independent reading, sentence analysis, sentence/paragraph writing, conversation practice, and group presentation.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is forbidden. You must obey the principles of academic integrity. If you quote or refer to another person’s work, please remember to give credit to the author(s).

A plagiarized product will result in a 0% of your assignment.

Attendance and Punctuality

Please try your best not to miss any classes and be on time. If you are or will be absent for medical or personal reasons, please inform me in advance and show permission slips or proofs (e.g. medical excuse from your doctor). According to the university regulation, more than two unexcused absences or six excused absences will result in your failing in this course.

Scoring Percentages:

1. In-class Quiz: 20%

2. Group Presentation Project: 40% (see p. 3 and p. 4 in the course syllabus for details)

3. Mid-term Exam: Reading comprehension & vocabulary: 15%

4. Final Exam: Reading comprehension & vocabulary: 15%

5. Attendance/Class Participation: 10%

Textbooks:

1. Weaving It Together 3 (WIT3): Textbooks can be purchased and picked up at Fu Jen Bookstore during the first week of school

2. Teacher's Assigned Handouts Booklet (TAHB)

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Activities:

1. Listening Activities (cloze, vocabulary, discussion) 20 mins.

2. WIT3 (Textbook) 40 mins

3. Group Presentation Project 40 mins.

Assignment for every student before each class :

*** For every session, make sure that you read before you come to class the reading passage your classmates will present in their group presentation. It will help you understand the presentation more easily.

Be aware that each student will be given an in-class quiz on the content of the group presentation each week.

Group Presentation Project Dates and Assigned Reading Passages Pages

(Use the chart below to determine the day of your group

presentation, and which assignment is assigned to your group) Dates & time of class sessions: every Friday from 10:10 am to 12:00 noon

Dates Group No. Teacher's Assigned Handouts Booklet (TAHB) page number(s)

10/1/2010 1 Age and Youth (p. 3 – p. 5)

10/8/2010 2 Behavior: Animals That Kill Their Young (p. 6- p.7) 10/15/2010

*** 3 Addictions (p. 8)

10/22/2010

*** 4 Women Rulers (p. 9)

10/29/2010 5 Switching roles (p. 10- p.12) - long

11/5/2010 6 Blog (p. 13)

11/19/2010 7 Memory (p. 14)

11/26/2010 8 How Global Warming Affects Your Health (p.15-p.16) 12/3/2010 9 Females vs Males Differences (p. 17)

12/10/2010 10 Study: Babies Who Gesture Learn Words Sooner (p.18-19)

12/17/2010 11 Soda Drinks (p. 20)

12/24/2010 12 The Happiness Effect (p. 21-p.23) - long 12/31/2010 13 Growing up Online (p. 24)

1/7/2011 14 College for all? Experts say not necessarily (p. 25 – p. 28) long

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*** On these dates classes will be held at Language Lab LI300

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Group Presentation Project

*Each week, ONE group does a Group Presentation on a reading passage assigned by the instructor.

*Students work in groups of 3 or 4, total 13 or 14 groups in 14 sessions per semester.

Group Project: To get ready for this project, you and your group members will read a passage from the Teacher's Assigned Handouts Booklet (TAHB) assigned by the instructor prior to your assigned group project date. You and your group members need to read the passage and prepare for your group project before you come to class on your assigned group project date.

A. Presentation

a. Provide a summary of the reading passage in PowerPoint. (Main idea + supporting ideas)

b. Choose 5 well-written sentences from the passage. Explain why you chose the sentences. Did the author express the sentences in some interesting ways?

c. Choose 5 to 7 vocabulary words used in the sentences. What do the words mean? Write each word in a new sentence to show in your presentation.

d. You need to include your personal opinion at the end of the presentation.

Pick ONE point you agree, disagree, or you think needs more clarification from the passage and explain WHY.

B. Class discussion

a. As a group, you should come up with 5 - 7 main ideas from the passage to use for group discussion. Make sure you list all 5 - 7 main ideas in your handout and pass it out to your audience.

b. Divide the class into 3 groups. Each presenter goes to one group. Then, each presenter should go over the 5 - 7 main ideas in the handout with the group. Encourage the audience to ask

questions to help clarify any confusion in the reading passage.

C. Quiz

a. Before class, each group will create a quiz that consists of 5 multiple-choice questions. The questions should be based on the reading passage. The questions can be related to checking your audience’s reading comprehension, assessing their critical thinking skills, making predictions, finding main ideas, and drawing conclusions.

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class, and have them write their name, student number, and department on the quiz.)

b. Each group will give a quiz paper to each audience member. Your audience will take the quiz in class.

c. When the quiz is over, each presenter will collect the quiz papers from their group. Then, each presenter should go over the answers with the group.

(REMEMBER: You should collect the quiz before giving out the answers!) d. At the end of the class, take the quiz papers home to grade and record the

grade on the top right-hand corner of the quiz papers. Each presenter will need to submit all the quiz papers from their group to the instructor one week later in class. The audience’s quiz scores from all presentations throughout the semester will make up 20% of their final score in this course.

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Song Discussion Questions

(1) What do you think the song is about?

(2) Do you like the song? Why or why not?

(3) Is this song easy or hard to understand for you? Which part is easy? Which part is difficult to understand?

(4) Do you think the singer did a good job in interpreting the song? Use examples to support your view.

(5) Is there anything special about this song that is different from other songs you know of?

(6) What are the new words or new phrases you learned from this song?

(7) If you are given an opportunity to sing this song to an audience, when or where will you perform it so that the song will fit the situation well?

(8) If you are to change the lyrics to this

song, what changes would you make,

and explain why you would make those

changes?

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Conversation Presentation Sheet

Based on your interaction with your partner, what can you conclude?

1. We both agree that: ___________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

2. We disagree that: _______________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

3. From our conversation today, we learned that __________________________

__________________________________________________________________

4. What are the other things we say about this topic that are not on the list:

______________________________________________________________

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