NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 英語口語訓練(一)(1060)
(Eng.) English Oral Training (I)
Offering Dept Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Required Credits 2 Teacher 邱幸珍
Department Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate Language English Semester 2025-SPRING
Course Description Self-expression is to know how you generate your ideas and plan your thoughts well. Through some issues offered in the textbook, to train students to have a deep-thinking and to know the ways how you express yourself properly will be targeted in this course. The configuration of individual, pair or group works will be appropriate for each student to get more interactions among classmates. Functional and situational syllabus design will be also applied to this course through some materials.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course N
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
1) Get more words and phrases needed in every talk.
2) Help yourself easily express your ideas by listening and reading some dialogue lines.
3) Preview the issues in the textbook, getting more global information that helps you generate ideas.
4) Be full of energy to deeply get involved the conversations in class.
1.Foreign language skills
3.Communication and presentation skills
50
50
topic Discussion/Production
Discussion
Lecturing
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Feb. 22nd // Class orientation / Pair or Group arrangement / Get ready to know you.
Week 2 Feb. 29th // U1 First Impression / Activity: Guess who?
Week 3 Mar. 7th // U2 Big or small? / Activity: What do I like or dislike living in a big city?
Week 4 Mar. 14th // U3 The Good Language Learner / Activity: Self-evaluation
Week 5 Mar. 21st // U4 Getting Ahead / Activity: Interview
Week 6 Mar. 28th // U5 Forever Single / Activity: Survey
Week 7 Apr. 4th (OFF) // Review U1-5
Week 8 Apr. 11th // Preparation for Mid-term: You must think of the topic for your oral test. Choose 2 of the five units, combining these 2 as your topic.
Week 9 Apr. 18th // Mid-term Oral Exam
Week 10 Apr. 25th // U6 What are friends for? / Activity: A short speech
Week 11 May 2nd // U7 What’s for lunch? / Activity: A small Talk
Week 12 May 9th // U20 A Mother’s Story / Activity: A story sharing
Week 13 May 16th // U10 My Student Life / Activity: Learning portfolio
Week 14 May 23rd // U12 Create another future / Activity: A time traveler
Week 15 May 30th // U16 What makes you happy?
Week 16 Jun. 6th // U19 Dress for Success
Week 17 Jun. 13th // Review and Prepare for the Final Oral Presentation
Week 18 Jun. 20th Final Oral Presentation
Evaluation
Participation 20% // Oral Presentation in class 20% // Mid-term & Final Demonstration 30% // Attendance 30%
P.S. Better not be absent more than 3 times no matter what reasons could be.
Textbook & other References
Day, R.R., Shales, J. & Yamanaka, J. (2019) Impact Issues 2, Pearson ISBN: 978-98-1313-4386
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website

Office Hours
Thursday 15:10-17:00 By appointment
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs
04.Quality Educationinclude experience courses:N
Please respect the intellectual property rights and use the materials legally.Please repsect gender equality.
Update Date, year/month/day:None Printed Date, year/month/day:2025 / 1 / 22
The second-hand book website:http://www.myub.com.tw/