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Basic English Reading I: Course Description & SyllabusCourse title: Basic English Reading IInstructor : Jiang ChunlanObjectives:1. The purpose of the course is to help students to improve their integrated skills on learning English. This course is to give freshman a thorough understanding of the importance and ways of mastering the 5 English Skills.Purposes for Basic English:- listening- speaking- reading- writing- translatingStudents will be expected to keep a vocabulary log. They will also be expected to make full use of English-English dictionaries or bilingual dictionaries.2. Goala) GeneralTo begin to understand and use correctly the basic elements of reading in English including:- Work towards fluency in learning English by enhancing skills, or linguistic processing abilities e.g. word recognition, syntactic processing- Students to move from bottom-up process of reading to an incorporation of both bottom-up and to-down processing. Interactive models will also be used for word recognition.- Students to learn vocabulary and grammar related to the texts- Students to read actively- Students to participate in pre-reading and post-reading activities- Review of various grammatical forms, including nouns countable and non countable, tenses and others as neededb) Language StrategiesTo learn and start to use the following language strategies:- Previewing- Use of English-English dictionaries or bilingual dictionaries- Scan to find information- Understand implied ideas in readings- Understand the writing style- Skimming to understand the main facts- Use of background knowledge to help you understand a reading- Finding topic sentences of paragraphs to understand the main idea- Learn paraphrasingc) Academic Power StrategiesTo learn and start to use the following academic power strategies:- Make a study plan- Goal setting- Practice what you have learnt to connect reading with life- Study in groups / pairs- Learn how to write a book reportFormatThe classes will adopt a learner-centered approach:- Teachers role is to coach and facilitate- Teaching and assessing are intertwined- Assessment is used to promote and diagnose learningClasses will involve:- Participatory style lessons- Practical reading: individuals, pairs and groups- Pair and group work- Discussion activities, both oral and written- Introduction / review of vocabulary, grammar, language learning strategies and academic power strategiesStudents responsibilities:- To preview all lessons prior to attending class- To use an English-English dictionary to check unknown vocabulary- To participate actively in exercises in class- To keep a Vocabulary Log of all new words and write their own sentences of the new words- To know, understand, learn and use language learning strategies- To know, understand, learn and use academic power strategies- To participate willingly and actively in the pre-reading, reading and post-reading activities involving class work, homework and peer correction. - To participate actively in all class activities, as listed in (1) above including all class discussions and brainstorming activities.Text Books: Contemporary College English, Yang Limin, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 2010Reference: A New English Course, Li Guanyi, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 1999.Other photocopies of appropriate material from a variety of sources will be given out as and when needed.Requirements: Individual Work for the semester: - Book report. Students are required to read a book they are interested in, and find a view they would like to talk about. Then write a book report. They will hand in before the semester.- Students are provided four essays. Listen to them first, and then read aloud, finally learn by heart. The four essays are: Youth; Life is a chess board; The Doer of deed and Three passions (What I lived for)Group Work: Presentation or Role Play. Students are divided into several groups to finish the Role Play (for example, Unit 3) and do the PPT presentation ( for example, Unit 2)Grading PolicyMid-term Exam 20%Final Exam 50%Attendance and Participation: 30%PoliciesAttendance: Missed classes must be made up and the reason reported together with a sick note with Chinese name in both characters and pinyin together with student number and date. A missed class will lose scores towards the Class Score. Moreover, if the student has 4 times of absent, the final score is F.Homework: must be delivered on time. English Only: No Chinese is allowed in English Class.Dictionary and Electronics: English-English dictionaries are preferred. Requirements for the students: Cell Phones, MP3s (etc) should be turned off during class.A tentative SyllabusWeekly:- sentences using appropriate vocabulary- vocabulary review activitiesPer Unit- text preview and review- exercises check- quizWK 1 Intro to the course Objectives; requirements; grading policyWK2-wk3 Text 1: the Selfish Giant2. The Sheiks White DonkeyMain contents：New words; the moral in the two storiesfocus：The Selfish Giant and the moral in itdifficulties：The moral in the story The Selfish Giantobjective：Students understand the stories.WK3-WK4 3. I Met a Bushman 4. Never Too Old to Live Your Dream5. Your Legacycontents：New words; I Met a Bushman; Never Too Old to Live Your Dream;Your Legacyfocus：Never Too Old to Live Your Dreamdifficulties：Information conveyed in the story Your Legacy, the meaning of lifeobjectives：Students understand the three stories and get some idea of different culture.WK5 National holidayWK6 GRAMMAR LEARNINGWk7 6. The Unicorn in the Garden 7. The New Assistant8. The Killerscontents：New words; The Unicorn in the Garden; The New Assistant; The Killersfocus：The Unicorn in the Garden; writing styledifficulties：The Killersobjectives：Students understand the three stories and learn something about Hemingways writing style.WK8 GRAMMAR LEARNINGWK9 9. The Painting of Ngley Hall 10. The Green Door11. The Yellow Shirtcontents：New words; The Painting of Ngley Hall; The Green Door; The Yellow Shirtfocus：The Painting of Ngley Halldifficulties：The Painting of Ngley Hallobjectives：Students understand the three stories and learn something about O. Henry.WK10 12. The Open Window 13. The Terribly, Tragically Sad Man14. Too Many Ghostscontents：New words; The Open Window; The Terribly, Tragically Sad Man; Too Many Ghostsfocus：The Open Window; The Terribly, Tragically Sad Man; The humor and the plot of the story The Open Windowdifficulties：The humor and the plot of the story The Open Window;objectives：Students understand the three stories.WK11 GRAMMAR LEARNINGWK12 15. The Rocking-Horse Winner 16. The Professor17. The Barbers Unclecontents：New words; The Rocking-Horse Winner; The Professor; The Barbers Unclefocus：The Rocking-Horse Winner;difficulties：Psychoanalysis and the unconscious objective：Students understand the three stories.WK 13 18. Tight Spotcontents：New words; T