2025 Spring: 五專財經四甲 English 4

國立台北商業大學113學年度第2學期教學計劃表
A tentative syllabus

 

課程名稱: 英文四 授課教師: 賴淑麗 (Shu-li Sally Lai)
授課班級: 五專財經四甲 學分/時數: 2/3
E-mail: shulilai@gmail.com Time: Monday (13:30 to 16:15)
Class website: https://bb.ntub.edu.tw/ Room: 視聽教室 Room 7
TronClass: https://tronclass.com.tw/ Classroomscreen: https://classroomscreen.com/
Classroom materials
  1. Longman Academic Reading Series: Reading Skills for College (2), published by Pearson Education, Inc. (2014)
  2. Online materials and handouts.
Classroom Evaluation
Quizzes & Assignments (in-class & after-class): 50% Midterm Exam: 20% Term Project: 20% Participation: 10%
Course Objective
This year-long course integrates four key language skills to help students become more skilled and confident readers. While the primary focus is on academic reading and vocabulary development, the course also encourages students to actively discuss and write about the ideas they discover in their readings.
The goal is to improve students’ English proficiency, enabling them become better readers, speakers, and writers. To achieve these goals, the course incorporates various activities, including listening practice, discussions, collaborative tasks, and presentations.
Project
To be announced
Course Requirements
  1. Participation and Attendance:
    • Be on time. Arriving more than 15 mintues late will be considered an absence. .
    • If you must miss a class due to unavoidable circumstances (e.g., illness, injury, family emergency), please email me in advance.
  2. Late assignments will not be accepted and make-up tests will not be provided. .
  3. Mobile Phone Usage:
    • Please switch your mobile phone to silent mode during class.
    • Unless it’s used for dictionary lookup or information searching, kindly refrain from using it during class.
  4. Quizzes:
    • Regular quizzes will be conducted, covering materials from both textbooks and class presentations.
    • To stay prepared, it is trongly advised to preview and review class materials each week.
Date Content Activities Assignments
2/17
(W1)		 Back to school Lisstening Activities
Blessings (link)
2/24
(W2)		 Chapter 3 Reading 3 Water is shown to help people lose weight
Listening Test (TOEIC) Part 1
3/3
(W3)		 Chapter 3 Reading 3 Water is shown to help people lose weight
Listening Test (TOEIC) Part 2
3/10
(W4)		 Listening building exercise (1)
3/17
(W5)		 TOEIC Srategies (Part 2)
3/24
(W6)		 Chapter 4 Reading 1 Bloom’s Taxonomy Good Luck (link)
Resilience (link)
3/31
(W7)		 Chapter 4 Reading 1 Bloom’s Taxonomy
4/7
(W8)		 Listening Test (TOEIC) Part 2
Review		 A talk by the Prime Minister of Singapore, Lawrence Wong  (link)
4/14
(W9)		 Midterm
4/21
(W10)		 Discuss Midterm
Project Guidelines an project theme
4/28
(W11)		 Chapter 8 Public speaking: Messages and messengers Finalized the topic
5/5
(W12)		 Chapter 8 Public speaking: Messages and messengers Outline due
5/12
(W13)		 TOEIC (Grammar)
(Model presentations, progress check)		 Talkscript (1st draft)
5/19
(W14)		 Practice and minor revision Talkscript (2nd draft)
5/26
(W15)		 Project 2 (20): Oral and Written
6/2
(W16)		 Project 3 (19): Oral and Written
6/9
(W17)		 Online education resources for life-long learning (OER) (resources for ESP, Listening, and Writing)
6/16
(W18)		 Wrap-Up (review and course feedback discussion)

以上所有課程每堂課皆對應以下指標:
校核心能力: 外語能力、專業素養
通識課程核心能力: 語言思辯表達、問題溝通解決

Note: The syllabus is subject to change based on the progress and needs of the class.