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Thu |
Topic & HW to prepare |
What we’ll do in class |
| 1 |
9/18 |
Self |
Introduce yourself |
| 2 |
9/25 |
Taiwan’s culture: What does it mean to be Taiwanese? Write five sentences and be prepared to explain them. |
Role-play discussing local culture with foreigners |
| 3 |
10/2 |
Opinion polls: Write at 4-5 questions about one topic to ask to as many classmates as possible. (Use a certain form?) |
Fill out and report on polls
Create an opinion poll, and poll your classmates |
| 4 |
10/9 |
Education: Write five sentences about how life for college students is different from life for high school students. |
Group discussion.
Discuss difficulties that freshmen frequently face |
| 5 |
10/16 |
Describe behavior. Closely observe three similar situations of people interacting. Describe each situation and tell what is similar and different. (Examples: high school boys, young parents with a baby, college-age boyfriend and girlfriend, etc.) |
Group discussion and demonstrations. |
| 6 |
10/23 |
Jobs: Create an ad for a part-time job suitable for college students during the summer holiday. Or a full-time job for a college graduate. It should be in size 20 font on an a4 sheet of paper. |
Job fair
Discuss part-time jobs during the first hour and full-time positions in the second hour. |
| 7 |
10/30 |
Being good: Choose one of the following and tell what it takes to be considered “good”: good student, boy, girl, athlete, boss, teacher, friend. |
Make a poster with a new group
Bring markers and/or pictures. |
| 8 |
11/6 |
Fear: Tell a scary story. It can be a true story or something made up. |
Share stories. Use past tenses. Learn and retell someone else's story. |
| 9 |
11/13 |
Midterm conversation: Plan a 15 minute conversation between 2 or 21 min. conv. between 3 people.
Give me your groups and I’ll determine the order. Only come for your own group’s conversation. |
You will begin your conversation as planned. I will interrupt to ask further questions, especially if it sounds like you memorized your conversation. |
| 10 |
11/20 |
| 11 |
11/27 |
Self, Part II: Write five sentences about yourself. Three are true and two are “lies”.
Bring a photo of yourself with someone else. |
Group game & discussion
Guess which statements are lies.
Talk about your photo. |
| 12 |
12/4 |
Adventure: Write short paragraph to either support or disagree with the following statement. “In order to be successful in life, you must be a risk-taker.” |
Debate
Prepare for and carry out several informal debates. |
| 13 |
12/11 |
Traveling: If you could travel to one country with one person for one week, where would you go and what would you do? |
Change seat conversations.
Learn about holiday ideas and choose your favorite |
| 14 |
12/18 |
Christmas: Each group prepares a Christmas activity: A game, a song, or a task to complete |
Each group has 7-10 minutes (no more) for their activity. |
| 15 |
12/25 |
Holiday |
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| 16 |
1/1 |
Holiday |
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| 17 |
1/8 |
Sign up for a 10-minute slot. Come to my office. You will be given two topics from the semester schedule. Then, you choose which of those to talk about. You talk first, and then I will ask follow up questions. You will be evaluated on
- Content: depth & detail
- Fluency: ability to keep talking without pauses, pronunciation, intonation
- Language: Word choice & grammar (accuracy & sophistication)
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| 18 |
1/15 |
