Grading Policy

Class participation (individual attendance included) 30%

Term project (group topic talks included) 30%

Test performance 40%
   (1) Pre-test 5% + Midterm 15% 

   (2) Post-test 5% + Final 15%

Notes:

• The POST-TEST session begins on 6/19 (9 AM) and will be closed on 6/24 (9 PM). 
  To take the test, please log on the e-learning site (http://120.107.186.81/amc_elrn/Login.aspx).
  Remember that your username and password are the same as those for the NCUE online course selection system. (請注意你的登入帳密同學校選課系統！)
  If you need help, feel free to contact the teacher by email or a post below.
• Students who have passed the English benchmark of the department will receive extra marks (but cancelled when they fail to reach 60 at each of the items above).
• 邱柏宜、邱信瀚、洪羽蓁、詹育澤、范祐傑、夏本強、周明誼/intermediate (To be continued) (加分名單6/26前完成最後更新！)
  (另請留意，如期初公告及上文提醒，部分加分學生因其他評分項目成績未達60分，僅將酌加學期總分5分，而非加分至90分以上。)
• For more information about the benchmark, please check the websites below:
• http://lc.ncue.edu.tw/front/bin/ptdetail.phtml?Part=Exit03&Category=26
• http://lc.ncue.edu.tw/ezcatfiles/lc/img/img/424/100738762.pdf
• The following presents a list of students who have to attend our class for a make-up exam on 6/24! (補考名單公告如下！)
• 廖宜新、張瑋倫、楊敦皓、孫聖閔、黃一修、王于欣、賴冠華、陳奕辰、范祐傑、詹育澤、張仲豪、夏本強、胡鈺昇、唐福麟

Learner Resources (Soon to be updated!)

• Word Parts
• A List of 35 Common Prefixes in English
  (http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/comprefix07.htm)
• A List of 30 Common Word Roots in English
  (http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/wordroots.htm)
• (More to be announced!)

Reminder: Your Portfolio

On 6/17, please bring back to class YOUR FOLDER that contains the following texts.

• Class handouts 1-6 (New TOEIC test booklet included)
• Group outlines from topic talk 1 (extra work for extra marks included)
• Midterm testsheet

Note that your teacher will return back to you the group outlines from topic talk 2. 

Reminder: FINAL Preparation

Our final is coming! Please note that the final will take place on 6/17!

Also remember that the final will cover the following class materials.
(a) All the class handouts (VOA expressions included)
(b) All the Studio Classroom magazines (including the issues in March, April, and June)
(c) All the outside readings from your topic talk 2

The exam will include both listening and reading comprehension questions.
(40-50 questions in total.)
(1) Listening section: pictures, best responses, short conversations, short talks
(2) Reading section: vocabulary, sentence/text completion, reading comprehension

For more information, feel free to contact the teacher at wendychangnchu@gmail.com!

Reminder: No class on 5/6! 5/1-5/6 New TOEIC Online!

Please log on the e-learning site (http://120.107.186.81/amc_elrn/Login.aspx) and finish your New TOEIC within around 2.5 hours.
(Your username and password are the same as those for the NCUE online course selection system. 請注意你的登入帳密同學校選課系統！)

Note that the session begins today (5/1, 9 AM) and will be closed next Wednesday (5/6, 4 PM) and that a new session will begin on 5/14 (9 AM) and be closed on 5/17 (9 PM).

If you need help, feel free to contact the teacher by email or a post below.

Topics for Topic Talk 2 (Tentative)

Group meetings on 5/20! 
Be sure to bring a hard copy of your group outline (parts 1-3 only)!

Topics for Group Topic Talk 2

5/27: Group 1 (Group 2, 3), 3 (Groups 7, 8), 4 (Groups 5, 6), 7 (Groups 1, 4)

6/03: Group 2, 5, 6, 8

~From: Studio Classroom (April 2015)

1. Incredible Israel
2. Symbols of Easter (Group 3)
3. Table Manners (Group 2)
4. "Sitting is the New Smoking"
5. Unsolved Mysteries of the World (Group 1)
6. Freestyle Football (Group 5)
7. The International Name Game (Group 4)
8. The Aeromobil 3.0 (Group 6)
9. Lucy Li (Group 8)
10. Children's Day in Turkey
11. The Power of House Plants (Group 7)
12. The Price of Flying
13. Plan International

Classroom Change

The classroom for 3/18 Freshman English is changed to Room 13104 at the English Department (2F). (For more information, please find the chart below.)

Topics for Topic Talk 1 (Tentative)

Topics for Group Topic Talk 1 
(Advanced to 4/8, 4/15; FINAL outline due on 4/22)
4/8   Groups 4, 3, 6, 5
4/15 Groups 7, 1, 2, 8

~ From: Studio Classroom (March 2015)

1. The Sound of Music
2. Inline Skating (Group 5)
3. The Computer Gets Personal
4. Say It Politely (Group 4)
5. Emma Watson (Group 6)
6. The Sugar Bush Fair
7. Natural Mosquito Repellents
8. Costa Rica (Group 7)
9. Banksy and Street Art (Group 3)
10. Eating Habits (Group 2)
11. Good Decisions (Group 8)
12. California Here I Come
13. Your Friends and Their Phones (Group 1)

Idioms and Phrases: Body Idioms (from The Teacher [Online])

This week, VOA Words and Their Stories taught us a lot about DOWN TO EARTH.
How is being down to earth different from having a big head?
Why is it a big HEAD?
Can we use any other word for the body part in making an idiom?

Let's find out more about it on the website, The Teacher!
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theteacher/)

WELCOME BACK ON BOARD!

The spring semester has begun!
Welcome back!

Reminder: Grading Policy (Last edited on 1/16)

The following presents our grading policy as shown in the course syllabus.

• Attendance (20%)
• Class participation (quiz performance included) (10%)
• Group topic talks (30%)
• Midterm (15%) + pretest (5%)
• Final (20%)

Reminder: FINAL Preparation

Our final is coming! Please note that the final will take place on 1/14!

Also remember that the final will cover
(a) all the word lists (topics 1-15), and 
(b) both November magazine (11/1-30) and December magazine (12/1-31).

The exam will include both listening and reading comprehension questions (4 question types each, similar to our pretest, though only 25 questions in total).

• Listening: picture description (2 questions), question and response (5), short conversation (3), short talk (2)
• Reading: sentence completion (6 questions), reading comprehension (2), text completion (5), Chinese-to-English translation (EXTRA 5 for a total of 10 bonus points)

For more information, please check our announcement made earlier.
(Click the link here: http://ncuefreshmanenglishwed.blogspot.tw/2014/09/course-syllabus.html)

Reminder: Outside Reading from Topic Talk 1-2

Read outside readings for our final exam! 
Be sure to read ALL the outside readings shared by the groups during their topic talks 1 and 2!

Note that the teacher will pick out 1 to 2 articles to test your reading comprehension ability in the final exam.