NKFUST

1st Sem: 4th year Advanced Listening and Speaking Course

Yahoogroups

Projects

Introductions: voice files in Wimba are completely lost when they updated the site. Some students' voice files are available in our Yahoogroups.

Give me my place to smoke

Voice Discussion Board: Should cigarette smoking be permitted in public places? (Note: Students' voice files were lost when Wimba upgraded the site.)

Relationships: Friends and Lovers

A wine that's raised some stink

Product Advertising/Jingle/Marketing of a hard-to-sell product: Presentation

Clothes and Appearance. Discussing different opinions on fashion; how first impressions are formed; how people respond to appearance. Lecture based on the movie trailer, "Legally Blonde 1". Project: Students use movie trailers or movie clips to discuss discrimination based on physical appearance. Click here to view group presentations.

Song translation: Presentation

Exceptional People: Group work. Students will choose a famous (political/religious, etc) figure who they think had/has made an important contribution to the people of Taiwan. Oral Presentation.

Impromptu Debate: Cloning- based on the topic "Is it sculpture or is it food- genetically engineered food"

Running Dictation: 10-minute warm-up to introduce the topic for the day: We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

Student Project: Voice Recording. Personal interpretations of their chosen/written poems. Oral presentations.