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Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages
Syllabus for the Fall Semester in 2014

Course Title

English 7

Day School
5-Year Junior College

2-Year College
School System
v 4-Year College
Graduate School

Department

Center for English Language Teaching

Instructor

Instructors
Contact
Information

Credits

Course
Categories

Course
Description

Division of Continuing Ed.

2-Year Junior College
2-Year College
4-Year College

Position Title

Office Phone
Number

Office

E-mail

@mail.wzu.edu.tw

Office Hours
4

Category

v Required Course
Elective Course

Year Taught1st Year

v For Academic Year
Class Taught
For Academic Semester

The course is topic based and designed to enhance low advanced level students
English listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students will learn to
communicate within the context of topics relating to business and finance, food
and nutrition, sports, sociology, psychology, biology, advertising, and
communication, and geography and environment by listening to and taking notes
for interviews, discussions, surveys, and presentations, reading (up to 3000
headwords) relating to a variety of themes and reading strategies, and writing
paragraphs, summaries, letters, and essays (around 250 words). The genres
include instruction, description, argument, explanation, and recount.

( 3000 )
( 250 )

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Course
Objectives

With respect to the topics, students will be able to

1. comprehend a variety of spoken and written forms of selected text-types
2. initiate and participate in discussions, interviews, surveys, and presentations on
various topics
3. demonstrate comprehension of new texts using the acquired headwords
4. compose paragraphs, summaries, letters and short essays, each with 250 words
5. demonstrate control of communication using the following grammar points:
a. simple past; present perfect and past perfect
b. auxiliary verbs
c. phrasal verbs (separable and inseparable)
d. quantifiers with count and non-count nouns
e. real conditionals: present and future
f. order of adjectives and comparatives with adjectives
g. subject-verb agreement
h. passive constructions
i. gerunds and infinitives
j. tag questions
k. compound and complex sentences
l. shifts between past and present in narratives
6. communicate using the following functions:
a. expressing opinions
b. giving reasons and
c. providing examples

1.
2.
3.
4. 250
5.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
6.
a.
b.
c.

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40% Study Portfolio, participation, quizzes, class work,

including presentation, writing assignments, etc.

Midterm exam 30%

Final exam 30%

:

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LDCC)
10 3
15 5
20 7
25 9

30 () 10

2 LDCC LDCC
Evaluation
3
Criteria

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4
LDCC Dr. ELearning
LDCC
5

http://c043.wzu.edu.tw/ezcatfiles/c043/img/img/834499612.pdf

1. Students are required to attend all the classes on time and abide by all the
Course
classroom regulations of the college. Students are considered as being late if they
Requirements &
arrive at the class less than 10 minutes late. It is regarded as a one-hour absence if
Policies
they are more than 10 minutes late unless a prior arrangement has been made.
;

2. Any sort of leave should be done beforehand by e-mail or phone call. The
document should be signed along with a copy of prescription (or evidence
signed by any relevant personnel) on the day when students return to school if
sick leave is asked.
,

3. Students are not allowed to take any makeup test for any absence.

4. Cellular/smart phones are prohibited using in class. Any noise or use of a

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cellular/smart phone in class will result in some unpleasant consequence: the

first violation will cause 5% discount of the ordinary evaluation and the second
violation will cause 10% discount of the ordinary evaluation.
:
5%; 10%
5. Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Assignment of plagiarism will be graded zero.
Plagiarism will also be punished on the basis of school rules.

6. Format of assignments ()

All assignments must be typed and saved in your own disk.

()

A cover page should be attached with the assignment indicating

subject, student name, student ID, & date.
()

Times New Roman. ( Times New Roman )

Font: 12. (12)

Double-spacing. ()
7. Deadlines for assignments are strict. Late assignments will cause 25% discount
daily. Complaints about the grades must occur within one week of receiving the
grade.

8. The students who use the 2nd-hand textbooks must erase the answers to the
exercises in their textbooks. Three violations will cause 10% discount of the
ordinary evaluation.
10%
Gramer, M. F. and Ward, C. S. (2011). Q-Skill for Success: Reading & Writing.
New York: Oxford University Press.
Craven, Miles and Sherman, K. D. (2011). Q-Skill for Success: Listening &
Speaking. New York: Oxford University Press.

www.qonlinepractice.com
Textbooks
Harmer, Jeremy. (2006). Trumpet Voluntary. Cambridge: Cambridge. University
Press.
Azar, B., & Hagen, S. (2009). Understanding and using English grammar (4th
edition). Pearson Longman.
Teacher-designed and/or -provided supplementary materials

Johnson, D., & Crombie, W. (2010). A Genre-based Approach to Academic

References
Writing. Tunghua Books.
Wenzao E-learning website
CNN Student News:
http://edition.cnn.com/US/studentnews/quick.guide/archive/index.html
BBC News English Learning:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/
BBC Learning English: Talk about English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/webcast/tae_betterspeaking_
archive.shtml
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading:
http://www.ted.com/talks
Studio Classroom (Advanced)
http://211.79.206.4/innotive/content/ocp_detail.jsp?id=1608568X
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British Council: Learning English Professionals

http://www.britishcouncil.org/professionals-podcast-english-listeningdownloads-archive.htm

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Course Content & Schedule

Dates

Instructional Assignment
Remarks
Approaches s, Tests and
Others

Units
Q-Skill for Q-Skill for Understanding
Success:
Success
and Using
Reading & Listening &
English
Writing
Speaking
Grammar

Trumpet
Voluntary

* Conditional
Lectures,
Sentence (
Preparation
Discussions,
Preparation
Preparation
09/15p. 416-418)
&
&
& Literature
Group/pair
09/19 Unit 1
Unit 1
Appreciation Work, Practice
* Auxiliary
& Activities, etc.
Verbs p. 445

09/2209/26
09/2910/03

Unit 1

Unit 1

Literature
Appreciation

Unit 1

Unit 1

10/0610/10

Unit 2

Unit 2

10/1310/17

Unit 2

Unit 2

the same as
above

the same as
above

Writing
Assignment
1
(individual
writing)

Ch. 2

the same as
above

10/10
Review Test National Day
on Unit 1 (Friday- day
off)

Ch. 3

the same as
above

Ch. 1
* Count and
Non-count
Nouns (pp.
109-113; pp.
122-130)

09/15
Opening
ceremony
(No classes in
the morning)

10/19 Charity
Sale (Sunday)

10/2010/24

Unit 2

10/27Unit 3-1
10/31

Unit 2

* Subject-verb
Agreement
(pp. 87-99)
* Gerunds
Unit 3-1
and
Infinitives
(pp. 307-308;
313-321)

11/03- Unit 3-1 & Unit 3-1 &

Review
11/07 Review
11/1011/14

Review

Ch. 4

the same as
above

Ch. 5

the same as
above

Review Test
on Unit 2

Review

the same as
above

Review Test
on Trumpet
Voluntary

Mid-term Exam

10/20 Makeup day

(Monday- day
off)

Writing Assignment 2

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11/17Unit 3-2
11/21

Unit 3-2

Ch. 6

the same as
above

11/24Unit 3-2
11/28

Unit 3-2

Ch. 7

the same as
above

Writing
Assignment 3
(pair writing)

Ch. 8

the same as
above

Review Test
on unit 3

Ch. 9

the same as
above

Ch. 10

the same as
above

12/0112/05

Unit 4

Unit 4

12/0812/12

Unit 4

Unit 4

12/1512/19

12/2212/26

12/2901/02
01/0501/09

Unit 4

Unit 5

Unit 5

* Parallel
Structures
(pp. 352357)
* Simple Past
and Present
Perfect (pp.
43-45)

Unit 4

Unit 5

* Gerunds
and
Infinitives
(pp. 301-308
& pp. 324
-329)
* Tag
Questions
(p. 446)

Unit 5

Unit 5 & Unit 5 &

Revie
Revie
w
w

Ch. 11

the same as
above

Book Review

the same as
above

Review

the same as
above

01/12Final Exam
01/16
*The syllabus is subject to change.

Writing
Assignment 4
(paired
writing)

12/25
Review Test
Christmas
on unit 4 (Thursday-day
off)

01/01 New
Years Day
(Thursday
day off)
Review Test
on Trumpet
Voluntary

Writing Assignment 5