Reading Fall 2005

Week One

Today’s . . .

IntroductionInstructorCourse introductionSyllabusGrading policy

Listening practiceHomework

Instructor: Alice Yuyen Chang

TEL: 03-2118800 ext. 5127E-mail: yuyenc@mail.cgu.edu.twCourse web:

http://memo.cgu.edu.tw/yu-yen/Blog:

http://cgureading.blogspot.com/ (for homework and discussion)

http://memo.cgu.edu.tw/yu-yen/

Reading Fall 2005

Syllabus: week 1-6

Syllabus: week 7-12

7Oral practice: recitationReading: William Shakespeare’s Sonnets/

8Oral practice: recitationReading: “Who Was Shakespeare” and “Shakespeare in the Movie”

(p.169-p.180)/Listen!! Shakespeare’s Sonnets

9

Oral practice: recitation“Earth’s Mysterious Places” (p.85-90)/ Film (discovery series)Listen!!--> from Project Gutenberg Audio eBooks/

10

Oral practice: speech (1)Reading: “Robotic Surgeons” (p.97-102)/ Film: ERListen!! from Project Gutenberg Audio eBooks/

11Oral practice: speech (2)Review

12 Mid-term Exam (II)

Syllabus: week 13- 18

13

Oral practice: speech (3)Reading: “The Challenges of Space Travel”

and “A space Vacation” (p.109-120)

14

Oral practice: speech (4)Reading: “The Challenges of Space Travel”

and “A space Vacation”

15

Oral practice: speech (5)Reading: “How Good Is Your Memory” and

“Words to Remember”

16

Oral practice: speech (6)Reading: “What Constitutes Art?” (p.157-

162)

17Oral practice: speech (7)Review

18 Final Exam

homeworkhttp://cgureading.blogspot.com/

News or http://alicecourseinformation.blogspot.com/

Textbook

Anderson, Neil J. Active III: Skills for Reading.

Boston: Heinle, 2003.東華書局 02-23114027 分機 21 -- 26

Office Hours:

8:00-10:00 Mondays10:00-12:00 Thursdays

Grading policy

Mid-term exams and final exam 50%

Listening practice, attendance and weekly quizzes 30%

Oral practice (recitation and speech) 20%

Very Important!!

Mid-term exam: week 6, week 12Final exam: week 18Week 1-5: listening practiceWeek 6-8: recitation practice

(each student)Week 10-17: 3-mimute speech

(each student)

Listen On Line!!!

CBC radio One:http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/index

.html

The Engines of Our Ingenuity

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epiindex.htm

Homework

To prepare textbooks, dictionaries and notebooks.

To read more about time, clocks and watches. (ex. Next page)

A task: In China, who invented water clock? (And when?)

Listening Practice:http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1307.htm

http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/early.html