“Advanced College English” course takes college academic English as the main teaching content, adopts task-based teaching method, and cultivates learners ' ability to learn and use general academic English. This course is aimed at advanced students with good English foundation and strong comprehensive quality. The course refines academic English skills into 40 knowledge points, and decomposes and explains them according to the four modules of listening, speaking, reading and writing, and cooperates with after-class exercises to practice skills. The course is 2 hours per week and completed within 15 weeks.
Through this course, students can read academic texts with medium difficulty, accurately extract information, master the skills of consulting academic materials and analyze, summarize and sort out the materials. Can better complete academic speech, master various speech skills and auxiliary tools, accurate and appropriate to express their views and opinions, agree or refute the views of others ; can use mind mapping, outline, abbreviation and other skills to record, summarize and summarize the content of academic lectures ; understand the structure, writing norms and skills of academic text writing, and be able to write academic papers and support arguments in the correct style. In terms of the cultivation of critical thinking ability, students will learn how to analyze and evaluate the acquired information, explore in depth, be objective and rational, and cultivate the ability and habit of independent thinking.
College English Advanced level I: Academic English（大学英语高级1：通用学术英语）
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi via XuetangX
Overview
Syllabus
- Unit 1 Using Academic Words and Writing a Paragraph
- 1.1 Reading Effectively–Academic Words List
- 1.2 Writing an Effective Paragraph–Paragraph Structure
- Unit 2 Writing Supporting Ideas and Planning Presentation
- 2.1 Writing an Effective Paragraph–Supporting Ideas with Facts and Quotations
- 2.2 Making Presentations–Planning Formal Presentations
- 2.3 Challenges in the Academic Listening
- Unit 3 Making Inference and Plan Presentation Structure
- 3.1 Reading Effectively–Making Inference
- 3.2 Making Presentations–Filling up the Structure and Team Project
- 3.3 Writing an Effective Paragraph–Developing Ideas with Statistics
- Unit 4 Organizing Notes and Describing a Line Graph
- 4.1 Note-taking Skills–Organizing Your Notes in Columns
- 4.2 Making Presentations–Making and Using Notes
- 4.3 Writing an Effective Paragraph–Describing a Line Graph
- Unit 5 Writing Introduction and SQ3R Techniques
- 5.1 From Paragraph to Essay–Writing the Introduction
- 5.2 Reading Effectively–SQ3R Techniques
- 5.3 Note-taking Skills–Listening For Lecture Cues
- Unit 6 Organizing Notes and Writing Thesis Statement
- 6.1 Note-taking Skills–Organizing Your Notes in Outline Form
- 6.2 Making Presentations–Using Your Voice (I)
- 6.3 From Paragraph to Essay–Writing Thesis Statement
- Unit 7 Reading Supporting Ideas and Writing Body Paragraph
- 7.1 Reading Effectively–Retaining Supporting Details
- 7.2 From Paragraph to Essay–Writing Body Part
- 7.3 Making Presentations–Using Your Voice (II)
- Unit 8 Skimming and Using Non-verbal Language
- 8.1 Reading Effectively–Skimming
- 8.2 Making Presentations–Using Body Language and Eye Contact (I)
- 8.3 From Paragraph to Essay–Writing a Conclusion
- Unit 9 Organizing notes and Describing a Diagram
- 9.1 Note-taking Skills – Organizing Your Notes as a Map
- 9.2 Describe a Diagram
- 9.3 Making Presentations–Using Body Language and Eye Contact (II)
- Unit 10 Scanning and Using Visual Aid
- 10.1 Reading Effectively–Scanning
- 10.2 Making Presentations–Using Visual Aids
- 10.3 Using the Active or Passive Voice
- Unit 11 Reading for Purpose and Linking ideas in Writing
- 11.1 Reading Effectively–Recognizing the Author’s Purposes
- 11.2 Linking Ideas in a Text
- Unit 12 Guessing Word meaning and Making Comparison
- 12.1 Reading Effectively–Guessing the Meaning of New Words
- 12.2 Comparing and Contrasting
- Unit 13 Reading for Signal Words and Writing Argumentative Essay
- 13.1 Reading Effectively–Recognizing Signal Words(1)
- 13.2 Argumentative Essay
- Unit 14 Rehearsing Presentation and Summarizing an Essay
- 14.1 Making Presentations–Preparing, Rehearsing and Dealing with Nerves
- 14.2 Reading Effectively–Recognizing Signal Words(2)
- 14.3 Paraphrasing and Summarizing
- Unit 15 Tackling Presentation problems and Maintaining Formal Writing Style
- 15.1 Making Presentations–Avoiding and Solving Problems
- 15.2 Academic Writing Style
- 期末考试
Taught by
Shuangshuang Pei, Fan Peng, Yanping Chen, Jane, cara, Grace, and Gina
