Fall 2006
Phone: (07) 561-5884
Email: liza@lizamlee.com
Day: Monday
Time: 10:10~12:00
Room #: C01~107
It is now time for you to start thinking about the midterm. Choose your partners and your topic.
1. Initiate, sustain, and bring to closure a wide variety of communicative tasks, including those that require an increased ability to convey meaning with diverse language strategies due to complication or an unforeseen turn of events.
2. Give students of and talk casually about topics of current public and personal intersts, using general vocabulary as well as vocabulary used by media discussions of current events.
3. Smooth over shortcomings in vocabulary of syntax by communicative strategies such as pause filters, stalling devices, and different rates of speech.
4. Narrate and describe with considerate detail, linking sentences together smoothly.
5. Understand interlocutors who are native speakers, and be understood by them without difficulty.
6. Demonstrate emerging evidence of an ability to support opinions, explain detail, and hypothesize.
| WEEK | DATE | ACTIVITY | ASSIGNMENTS |
| 1 | 9/18 | Course Overview/Syllabus | 1. Print Handout
2. Prepare a 3 to 5 Minute speech of Self Introduction based on a personal object 3. Self-Introduction Guide 4. Sample Self-Introduction Speech |
| 2 | 9/25 | 1. Self-Introductions
2. Fun Questions |
Print Handout |
| 3 | 10/2 | Contentious Issues: Agree to Disagree | 1. Listen: The GM Debate
2. Print Handout |
| 4 | 10/9 | HOLIDAY: Moon Festival | 1. Listen: Gun Debate
2. Print Handout |
| 5 | 10/16 | A Survey: Contentious Issues | 1. Listen: A New Job
2. Print Handout |
| 6 | 10/23 | 1. Oral Report on Surveys
2. Group Discussions: First World |
1. Print Handout
2. Topic for Midterm Due Today! |
| 7 | 10/30 | Pair Debate:Controversial Statements | Print Handout |
| 8 | 11/6 | Group Discussions:Men and Women | Print: Argumentation/Persuasion.Choose a topic, prepare speech, and present for Midterm.
Sample Persuasive Speech Outline Opinion Gambits |
| 9 | 11/13 | MIDTERM: Persuasive Speech | PRINT: 1.
2. Debate Format 3. Speeches in Debate 4. The Affirmative Case 5. Speaking Drills |
| 10 | 11/20 | Getting Ready for Debate Contest | 1. Print Handout 2. What Is Debate? |
| 11 | 11/27 | The Opening Speech | 1. Print Handout 2. Split class into two groups 3. Prepare Constructive Speech to be presented in class 4. Constructive Speech Guide 5. Sample Outline |
| 12 | 12/4 | The Rebuttal | 1. Print Handout 2. Prepare Rebuttal Speech to be presented in class |
| 13 | 12/11 | Cross Examinations | 1. Print Handout 2. Prepare at least five (5) questions for Class Cross Examination Exercise |
| 14 | 12/18 | The Closing Speech | 1. Print Handout 2. Prepare a Closing Speech |
| 15 | 12/25 | Card Game: Debate Warm-Up | Work on debate speeches and bring a completed written copy to class for peer evaluation. |
| 16 | 1/1 | Peer Evaluations | 1. Print and bring to classDebate Format 2. Work with your debate team |
| 17 | 1/8 | FINAL EXAM: Debate | None |
| 18 | 1/15 | FINAL EXAM: Debate | Enjoy Your Winter Break! |
2. Email Account
3. Internet Access
2. Assignments: Homework is to be completed before the beginning of the class for which it was assigned. Late homework will not be accepted. Any assignments not completed when due will receive a grade of 0%.
Grade Distribution
Participation & Attendance 10%; Assignments 50%; Midterm 20%; Final 20%
Breaking News English
Sample Film Critique
Glossary of Newspaper Terms
http://iteslj.org/links
English IPA Sounds
Voice of America (VOA)
Debate Introduction
Debate Topics
