Course name: 1st year English (0926) (Time and venue: Wed. 13:10-15:00; AA303)

Instructor: Chung-yi Chu cychu@nchu.edu.tw; tel: (o) 22840322-1029

Office and Office hours: 人文大樓1029 &  Thur. 14:00-16:00 p.m. or by email appointment.

TA: 吳晉慈(Jill) jinciwu08@gmail.com (TA time: Tue. 15:00-17:00)

Course objectives:

1. Help students meet the requirement of passing GEPT high-intermediate level test, or its equivalents, like TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS, on reading and listening.

2. Help students develop speaking skills and critical thinking strategies.

Week 1 2/21 Unit 6 Reading 2 (pp. 75-77)

Week 2 2/28 Holiday 

Week 3 3/06 Unit 6 Reading 2 (pp. 78-80)

Week 4 3/13 Unit 8 Reading 1 (pp. 93-95)

Week 5 3/20 Unit 8 Reading 1 (pp. 96-98) 

Week 6 3/27 Unit 8 Reading 2 (pp. 99-101) 

Week 7 4/03 Holiday (校慶與運動會補假); digital week (Choose your film and write a reflection of 200 English words on it.)

Week 8 4/10 Mid-term  

Week 9 4/17 Unit 8 Reading 2 (pp. 102-104)

Week 10 4/24 校內英檢 GEPT test 

Week 11 5/01 Unit 9 Reading 1 (pp. 105-107)  

Week 12 5/08 Unit 9 Reading 1 (pp. 108-110) 

Week 13 5/15 Unit 11 Reading 2 (pp. 135-137)

Week 14 5/22 Unit 11 Reading 2 (pp. 138-140)

Week 15 5/29 Unit 12 Reading 1 (pp. 141-143) 

Week 16 6/05 Final 

Week 17 6/12 digital week (film review graded online)

Week 18 6/19 Grade checking + online feedback

Textbook & Useful websites:

1. Reading for the Real World 3. 4th ed. Peggy Anderson and Sam Robinson. Compass Publishing, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-64015-8467. (請洽校內敦煌書局。)

The following are references (need not to be purchased):

2. BBC; BBC Learning English Websites; CNN 10, and others.

3. NCHU i-learning 3.0.

4. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (https://www.merriam-webster.com/); Cambridge Online Dictionary.

Grades: 

1. Mid-term+ final: 40%

2. Attendance+ classroom performance + bonus oral presentation: 20% (2% deduction for each absence or extreme tardiness; extra points added for a well-prepared group oral presentation; classroom discussions will be observed and graded.) 

3. Quizzes + digital week assignment 25%

4. 112學年度後測成績佔學期總成績15%；將決定同學是否通過英語畢業門檻。

If you want to convert my final grade to a letter grade, the following is the conversion chart American Universities usually adopt: A+= over 95, A= over 90, A- = 85-89, B+ = 80-84, B = 75-79, B- = 70-74, C= 65.