Date

Topic

Assignment

•  9/20

Course Orientation:

Listen Critically

Pre-Course Survey

Listening Habit Questionaire

•  9/27

Self-Introduction: The English Listening Lounge

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab :

Randall's Introduction Tell Me About Your Self

Tell Us About Yourself

•  10/4

Elllo Travel: Forms of transportation Road Trip

Listening Diary # 1

•  10/11

Elllo: Movie Talks

•  10/18

American Rhetoric: Lean On Me

Movie Trailers and Preview

Listening Diary # 2

•  10/25

Pronunciation: 中央大學英語正音班

Similar Sounding Words

Minimal Pairs for English

•  11/1

Poem Reading : The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Favorite Poem Project

I'm nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson

We Real Cool b y Gwendolyn Brooks

Listening Diary # 3

•  11/8

Fairytale Dictation

The pronunciation of past tense

•  11/15

Mid-Term Exam

•  11/22

English Maze

Intonation & Word/Sentence Stress: Rules for Sentence Stress

Listening Diary # 4

•  11/29

ESL Radio

BBC World Service: Singer and the Song

•  12/6

Bob Dearborn's analysis on American Pie

Listening Diary # 5

•  12/13

California Distance Learning Project

•  12/20

Radio Diaries

New York Worker: Bra-Fitter & Teenage Days

Listening Diary # 6

•  12/27

Western/Pacific Literacy Network/CNN SF Learning Resources

•  1/3

ICRT News Listening

VOA News: News Radio for English Learners

Listening Diary # 7

•  1/10

77 th Academy Awards: Best Acceptance Speech Tom Hanks

•  1/17

Final Exam