Adult English Conversation

KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Adult English Conversation Course

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to greatly improve students speaking, listening and pronunciation skills and expand students vocabulary. This course also improves students' speaking and listening skills as well as raise their awareness on up-to-date topics in a challenging manner both in social and academic circumstances.

This course consists of 36 hours over an 18-week period.

COURSE ACTIVITIES

Role-plays, interviews, survey, mini-presentations, discussions (pair/group), and debate.

COURSE MATERIALS

* Email Account *Internet Access *Handouts

COURSE OBJECTIVES

* to be able to use the appropriate spoken discourse in given situation by practicing the following functions:
   - introducing oneself
   - initiating a talk
   - closing a talk
   - polite requests
   - expressing disagreement
   - appreciating opposing ideas
   - giving feedback
   - managing conversation

* to be able to use the above functions by participating in the discussions around the following topics:

    - medicine
    - business
    - nature
    - privacy
    - technology
    - discrimination (gender, race, status, etc.)
    - culture
    - psychology

CLASS FORMAT

This class starts on 21st March and finishes on 1 August. It meets on Tuesday from 6:30 ~ 8:30, with a 10-minute break.

Course Schedule & Handouts

Week   Date     Activity/Handouts

1       3/21      Introductions

2       3/28      Love Affair with Coffee

3       4/4       Who Gets the Heart?

4       4/11      Ethics of Cloning

5       4/18      Doctors Without Borders

6       4/25      Sun Safety

5       5/2       Culture of Obesity

6       5/9       From Darkness to Light

7       5/16      Buzz about Bees

8       5/23      Overcoming Fears

9       5/30      Extroverts & Introverts

10      6/6       Significance of Colors

11      6/13      Turning Red

12      6/20      Into the World of Internet

13      6/27      Cell Phone Etiquette

14      7/4       World of Imaginations

15      7/11      Are You A Leader or A Follower?

16      7/18      Valentines Day

17      7/25      Traffic Destroys Neighborhood

18      8/1       Share of the Pie

Professor Information:

Name:

Liza Manalo-Lee

Email:

liza@lizamlee.com

Phone:

(95) 881-6189

Website:

lizamlee.com

"Teaching that begins with questions is both a moral and a pedagogical choice. A teacher teaches with questions because she or he believes that it is a better way to teach, and a better way to be a teacher. Yet to succeed at this, the questions must be real questions: questions that puzzle, confuse, and interest."

-- Nicholas C. Burbles