Date

(Mon)

Topic

Assignment

1.   7/4

a. Course Orientation:

Classroom Language

Listening Habit Questionnaire

Self-introduction

b. Self-Introduction

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab : Tell me about yourself

a. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab : A Doctor's Appointment Movie Review

elllo ( English Language Listening Online): Interview: What does he look for in a movie?

Minimal pairs recording

Homophones

b. Vowels: 中央大學英語正音班

Similar Sounding Words

3.   7/18

a . Consonants: Fairytale Dictation

Minimal Pairs for English

Listening Diary #1

b. Sitcom: Friends: The One Where Underdog Gets Away

Intonation & Word/Sentence Stress: Rules for Sentence Stress

Intonation exercise

4.   7/25

a. Mid-Term Exam

Diary report

b. Radio Diaries

New York Workers : Bra-Fitter

Teenage Dairies

5.   8/1

a. California Distance Learning Project : Finding a Job, Teen Suicide, Red Light Runners

b. Poem Reading : The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Favorite Poem Project

We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

Poem recording

6.   8/8

a. Common Reduction: Sunny's Pronunciation Site

Speech Accent Archive: Taiwanese

English Accent

Listening Diary #2

b. ICRT News Listening :

Taiwan 's Taxi Drivers

Mishap of Taipei101 Building

Depressing City

VOA News: News Radio for English Learners

ICRT news recording

7.   8/15

a. ESL Radio :

Program 2 Music of the world

ello interview: Do you like music?

Bob Dearborn's analysis on American Pie

b. BBC World Service: Singer and the Song

elllo: Music Page

8.   8/22

a. 77 th Academy Awards: Best Acceptance Speech Tom Hanks

Listening Diary #3

Your Acceptance speech

b. American Rhetoric: Lean On Me

Movie Trailers and Preview

Write your own movie review

9.   8/29

Final Exam