Reading Fall 2005

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Reading Fall 2005

• Week One

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Todays . . .

• Introduction
• Instructor
• Course introduction
• Syllabus
• Grading policy
• Listening practice
• Homework

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Instructor Alice Yuyen Chang

• TEL [phone] ext. 5127
• E-mail yuyenc_at_mail.cgu.edu.tw
• Course web
• http//memo.cgu.edu.tw/yu-yen/
• Blog http//cgureading.blogspot.com/ (for
  homework and discussion)

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http//memo.cgu.edu.tw/yu-yen/
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Reading Fall 2005
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Syllabus week 1-6
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Syllabus week 7-12
7 Oral practice recitation Reading William Shakespeares Sonnets/
8 Oral practice recitation Reading Who Was Shakespeare and Shakespeare in the Movie (p.169-p.180)/Listen!! ? Shakespeares Sonnets
9 Oral practice recitation Earths Mysterious Places (p.85-90)/ Film (discovery series) Listen!!--gt from Project Gutenberg Audio eBooks/
10 Oral practice speech (1) Reading Robotic Surgeons (p.97-102)/ Film ER Listen!! ? from Project Gutenberg Audio eBooks/
11 Oral practice speech (2) Review
12 Mid-term Exam (II)
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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)
17 Oral practice speech (7) Review
18 Final Exam
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homeworkhttp//cgureading.blogspot.com/
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News or http//alicecourseinformation.blogspot.com
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Textbook

• Anderson, Neil J. Active III Skills for Reading.
  
• Boston Heinle, 2003.
• ???? 02-23114027 ?? 21 -- 26

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Office Hours

• 800-1000 Mondays
• 1000-1200 Thursdays

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Grading policy

• Mid-term exams and final exam 50
• Listening practice, attendance and weekly quizzes
  30
• Oral practice (recitation and speech) 20

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Very Important!!

• Mid-term exam week 6, week 12
• Final exam week 18
• Week 1-5 listening practice
• Week 6-8 recitation practice (each student)
• Week 10-17 3-mimute speech (each student)

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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

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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

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