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Week 1 |
Aug. 9 |
Unit
1: Communication Reading
Discussion: connections; phrasal verbs; nonverbal communication |
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Aug. 10 |
Unit 1: Communicating
Confidently Reading
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Aug. 11 |
Unit 1: Who Does the Talking? Reading
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Week 2 |
Aug. 16 |
Unit 1: Communication Reading
Discussion: practice reading passage
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Aug. 17 |
Unit 1: Communication Reading
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Aug. 18 |
No class (Teachers Day) |
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Week 3 |
Aug.
23 |
Unit 1: Communication Reading
Autism Talk: Students bring a picture, a number, or a quote that is related to autism to speak about for one minute in class. For example, you might bring the number 82 and share with class that it is how old the first person ever to be diagnosed with autism is now. Donald Gray Triplett is still healthy at this age; he drives, he golfs and he loves numbers. |
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Aug. 24 |
Unit 1: Communication Reading
Discussion:
aspects review
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Aug.
25 |
Unit 2: Environment Reading
Discussion:
collocations
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Week 4 |
Aug. 30 |
Unit
2: Changing Environment Reading
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Aug. 31 |
Unit 2:
Extreme Environment Reading
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Sep. 1 |
Unit 2: Wind
Farm Reading
Class begins in BRK 302 |
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Week 5 |
Sep.
6 |
Unit 2: Energy Reading
Oral
Presentation:
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Sep. 7 |
Unit 2: Energy Reading
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Sep. 8 |
Unit 3: Sport Reading
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Week 6 |
Sep. 13 |
Unit 3: Martial Arts Reading
Oral
Presentation:
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Sep. 14 |
Unit 3: Getting to the Top Reading
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Sep. 15 |
Unit 3: Getting
to the Top Reading
Oral
Presentation: Khemiga
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Week 7 |
Sep. 19 |
"The
Chaos" Recitation
In four groups of three students and two groups of four, make an appointment with me for a Monday lunch reading of "The Chaos" poem. Divide the reading equally among you, and help each other out in looking up words, figuring out the pronunciations and in practicing reading aloud. It is okay to print out a copy to look at while reciting.
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| Sep. 20 |
Unit 3: Who Is
the Greatest?
Oral Presentation: Sirada |
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Sep. 21 |
Unit 3:
Earnings Reading
Oral Presentation: Ratawan |
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Sep. 22 |
Unit
3: Sports Reading
Discussion:
Oral Presentation: Pornpreya |
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Week 8 |
Sep. 27 |
Review Reading
Discussion: examples paragraph common problems and how to fix them
*Two-Minute
Animated Grammar: Student groups finish their
two-minute animated grammar videos and show them to the
class.
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Sep. 28 |
Midterm Exam (Midterm week: September 2630, 2016)
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Sep. 29 |
No class (Midterm week: September 2630, 2016)
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Week 9 |
Oct. 4 |
Unit 4:
Medicine Reading
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Oct. 5 |
Unit 4:
Malaria Reading
Medical Breakthrough Match:
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Oct. 6 |
Unit
4: Bionic Eye Reading
Oral Presentation: Natlada
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Week 10 |
Oct. 11 |
Unit 4: Bionic
Eye Reading
Oral
Presentation: Oab-boon
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Oct. 12 |
Unit 4:
Homeopathy Reading
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Oct. 13 |
Unit
4: Medicine Reading
*Final project meeting: sections 1 and 8, please send at least one group representative to meet with your instructors to go over details of what is required as well as due dates. Meet us in BRK 1107 at the following time slots:
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Week 11 |
Oct.
18 |
Unit 5:
Transport Reading
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Oct. 19 |
Unit 5:
Transport in the Future Reading
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| Oct. 20 |
No class (Commencement)
*Final project group members responsibilities list and project outline due (by e-mail) |
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Week 12 |
Oct. 25 |
Unit 5:
Transport in the Future Reading
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Oct. 26 |
Unit 5: Great
Railway Journeys Reading
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Oct. 27 |
Unit 5:
Beauciel Reading
*Final project scripts due (speaking and media scripts, paragraphs draft) |
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Week 13 |
Nov. 1 |
Unit 5: Travel
Statistics Reading
Practice Reading Test 2:
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Nov. 2 |
Unit
5: Transport Reading
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Nov.
3 |
Unit 6:
Literature and Film Reading
Practice Writing 3 (pros and cons) |
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Week 14 |
Nov. 8 |
Unit 6: The
Great Gatsby Reading
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Nov. 9 |
Unit 6: PISA
Reports Reading
*Listening Quiz 1 (5 points)
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Nov. 10 |
Unit 6: The
New Film Project Reading |
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Week 15 |
Nov. 15 |
Unit 6: The
New Film Project Reading
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Nov. 16 |
Unit 6:
Literature and Film Reading
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Nov. 17 |
Unit 6:
Literature and Film Reading
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Week 16 |
Nov. 22 |
Review Reading
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Nov. 23 |
Fair Day: Student Final Project Presentations
BRK 302
*Pick up your
copy of the holiday reading, A Monster Calls by
Patrick Ness (~160 baht), before or after class |
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Nov. 24 |
Review Reading
Breakfast + Discussion: grammar
(future continuous, going to, present continuous, future
perfect simple, future simple, modal verbs, past simple,
past continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous,
used to, would, get used to), vocabulary (medical, transport,
literature and film terms, personal qualities adjectives,
dependent prepositions, collocations, idiomatic
expressions), etc.
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Week 17 |
Nov. 29 |
Final Exam (8:3011:30 a.m.) There are four parts to the final: vocabulary, grammar, reading, and writing.
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