It consists of 12 units and 48 lectures. The aim is to cultivate students' ability in discourse analysis, basic writing skills, especially practical writing skills; to train students' translation skills, especially translation of English scientific and technological documents; and, on the basis of reading and writing, students are trained to effectively apply textual knowledge and writing skills to listening and speaking.
Overview
Syllabus
- Unit One A Brief Comparison between English & Chinese
- 1.1 An introduction
- 1.2 Subordination
- 1.3 Inversion
- 1.4 Conversion（1）
- 1.5 Conversion (2)
- Unit Two Writing a short English essay
- 2.1 Lead-in
- 2.2 Planning before writing
- 2.3 Language Fluency
- 2.4 Sample reading
- Unit Three Education: Parental Discretion
- 3.1 Lead-in
- 3.2 Text development
- 3.3 Words and phrases
- 3.4 Sentence understanding
- Unit Four History & Personality: Voice of courage
- 4.1 Lead-in
- 4.2 Text development
- 4.3 Words and phrases
- 4.4 Sentence understanding
- Unit Five Business: Born to sell
- 5.1Lead-in
- 5.2Text development
- 5.3Words and phrases
- 5.4Sentence understanding
- Unit Six Art of life: Can’t we talk
- 6.1Lead-in
- 6.2Text development
- 6.3Words and phrases
- 6.4Sentence understanding
- Unit Seven Sports & Health: Usain Bolt: How far and fast we go?
- 7.1Lead-in
- 7.2Text development
- 7.3Words and phrases & Sentence understanding
- Unit Eight Medicine: The father of modern surgery
- 8.1Lead-in
- 8.2Text deelopment
- 8.3Words and phrases
- 8.4Sentence understanding
- Unit Nine Law & Justice: The evolution of same-sex marriage laws
- 9.1Lead-in
- 9.2Text development
- 9.3Words and phrases
- 9.4Sentence understanding
- Unit Ten Architecture: One world trade center
- 10.1Lead-in
- 10.2Text development
- 10.3Words and phrases & Sentence understanding
- Unit Eleven Environment: The clean energy scam
- 11.1Lead-in
- 11.2Text development
- 11.3Words and phrases
- 11.4Sentence understanding
- Unit Twelve Cinematics: First Titanic, Now Avatar — How does James Cameron do it?
- 12.1Lead-in
- 12.2Text development
- 12.3Words and phrases
- 12.4Sentence understanding
Taught by
Yang Qian, Xingwen Li , Xiu Dong, Xiangfeng Cai , Qiulin Luo , and Wei Zhang
