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Junior English Oral Practice2010/11 Syllabus
Christopher SpaldingDepartment of Applied Foreign Languages
Cheng Shiu University
Course Introduction
• Weekly taught course which aims to develop student’s English communicative skills.
• Emphasis on speaking and listening at an intermediate to upper-intermediate level.
• Through using the Interactions book series students will be expected to have converse and discuss about real-life situations.
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Course Assessment
• Final grades – 70% examination, – 20% class attendance, – 10% homework and other exercises.
• Each semester consists of two exams, a midterm and a final, each composed of a listening and speaking section.
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Textbook
• Interactions (1) Textbook and CDJudith Tanka & Paul Most (2007)McGraw Hill
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Chapter 1• Academic Life Around the World– In this chapter students will listen to language about
academic life, education and meeting new people.
• Skills Learnt– Listening for main ideas and details.– Speaking on the telephone.– Casual vocabulary and introduction expressions.– Discussing body language and guessing the meaning.– Pronunciation of stressed words and –s endings.
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Chapter 2
• Experiencing Nature– In this chapter students will listen to language about
nature, weather, seasons, and vacations.
• Skills Learnt– Listening to weather forecasts and stories.– Discussing plans and talking about the weather.– Expressing likes and dislikes.– Comparing reduced pronunciation and unreduced.
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Chapter 3• Living to Eat, or Eating to Live?– In this chapter students will listen to and use language
for food and meals.• Skills Learnt– Listening to the radio and taking notes.– Interviewing people and comparisons.– Distinguishing between count and non-count nouns,
and teens and tens.– Polite refusals.
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Chapter 4
• In the Community?– In this chapter students will learn a great deal of
useful language for functioning effectively in a city environment.
• Skills Learnt– Following and giving directions.– Describing a location and comparing and contrasting.– Summarizing ideas using key words.
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Chapter 5• Home– In this chapter students will learn language related to
the home.• Skills learnt– Distinguishing between past tense -ed endings.– Talk about finding somewhere to live.– Making and answering requests.– Interviewing possible roommates.– Verbs and frequency expressions.
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Chapter 6• Cultures of the World– In this chapter students will learn and practice
language for talking about the world’s cultures.• Skills learnt– Listening and understanding a lecture.– Instructions for setting a formal dining table and
learning about other dining customs.– Discussing manners and apologizing.– Describing feelings.
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Chapter 7• Health– In this chapter students will learn to listen to language
about health.• Skills Learnt– Distinguishing between rising and falling intonation in
tag questions.– Asking and giving advice about medical problems.– Discussing smoking, it’s advertisements and
associated laws.– Agreeing and disagreeing.
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Chapter 8• Entertainment and the Media– In this chapter students will learn and practice
language about entertainment and the media.• Skills Learnt– Listening to a news repots and radios ads.– Expressing, agreeing with, and disagreeing with
opinions.– Describing TV shows and discussing them.– Learning terms related to TV and the Movies.
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Chapter 9
• Social Life– In this chapter students will listen to language for
participating in social events, including dating.
• Skills Learnt– Interpreting intonation used with exclamations.– Giving and accepting compliments.– Discussing dating and parties in various cultures.– Comparing alternatives and selecting the best match.
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Chapter 10• Sports– In this chapter students will learn a great deal of
language to talk about sports.• Skills learnt– Listening to a sportscast and conversations about
sports.– Using correct nouns to describe sports and athletes.– Organizing notes into an outline.– Pronuncing the North American t and dropping the h
sound in unstressed words.
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