Oral
Training II Fall 2002
Audio-Visual
Building 201
Tuesdays 10:10am-12 noon
Instructor: Karen S. Chung
There
will be 16 classes this semester.
Routine
work: You will recite and learn a poem, mark your listening assignment,
and receive the new listening assignment every class during first hour; these
are not listed separately below. Note that this syllabus is subject to change.
Click
here for the Poems for Memorization
handout for Fall 2002.
Click
here for the About Poetry: English
Prosody Plus Selected Literary Terms handout. (Refer to this
for definitions of terms like iambic, doggerel, and synaesthesia.)
Send
an e-mail message to the instructor
containing a quote and the name of its author. We will collect
the addresses for a class e-mail list for everybody's use.
Please visit the class
discussion board often.
September
17: Introduction;
poetry; practice
passage for reading aloud: note stresses and intonation. From:
The New York Times, September 15, 2002 "Relishing Beautiful
New Freedoms in Kabul" by John F. Burns Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 14
Listening assignment: A
Moment of Science (II) : (1)
Take a Hike and Improve Your Memory and (2) Laughter
is a Social Signal?
Prepare: Passage for reading aloud. Bring
correctly labeled blank 90-minute cassette tape. Prepare clean joke to tell.
September
24: Read
passage aloud to class. Collect blank cassette tapes.
Listening assignment: A
Moment of Science (III) : (1) Smells
and Colors and (2) The Color of the Universe
Prepare: Prepare joke to tell to class. Prepare
outline of skill presentation outline. Choose partner, movie for oral
review.
October
1: Submit
skill presentation outline. Oral reading.
Listening assignment: The New York Times:
Seafood Salad
Prepare: Skill presentation. Choose partner
and movie.
October
8: Oral
reading.
Listening Assignment: The
Mayo Clinic II
Videos: (1) Capsule endoscopy and
(2) All about an allergy test
Prepare: Skill presentation; movie review.
October 15:
Oral reading.
Listening assignment: Lives
of the Writers (I): Jane Austen
Prepare: Skill presentation, movie review.
October 22:
Joke telling; first skill presentation.
Listening assignment: Lives
of the Writers (II): Charlotte and Emily Brontë
Prepare: Ghost story without written
notes: practice! Skill presentation and movie review.
October 29:
Tell ghost story.
Listening assignment: Steve
Chandler: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
Prepare: Skill presentation and movie review.
November
5: Skill presentation.
Listening assignment: Putting
Things Away by Amanda McBroom
Prepare: Skill presentation, movie review.
November 12:
Skill presentation.
Listening assignment: Joseph
Campbell: The Hero's Adventure
Prepare: Skill presentation, movie review.
November
19: Skill presentation.
Listening assignment: The
Dobelle Implant and Seeing with Sound
Prepare: Movie review; movie dialogue.
November 26:
Skill presentation; evaluation and comments.
Listening assignment: Ask
Dr. Laura (3)
Prepare:
Movie review.
December
3: Movie review.
Listening assignment: Mutant
Message Down Under
Prepare: Movie review; choose novel for
oral review for next semester; prepare Christmas carol lyrics.
December
10: Movie review;
evaluation and comments; submit novel choice.
Listening assignment: Sting:
I'm so happy I can't stop crying
Prepare: Movie review.
December 17:
Movie review.
Prepare: Movie review; Christmas
carol lyrics; choose topic for class discussion on January 7.
December
24: Decide
on discussion topic for Dec. 31. Learn and sing Christmas carols in various
languages.
Listening assignment: The
Nine Billion Names of God (I)
Prepare: to have a Merry Christmas! Discussion
notes.
December 31: Movie
review.
Listening assignment: The
Nine Billion Names of God (II)
Prepare: Pronunciation summary: past, present,
and future.
January 7: Hand in pronunciation summary; last-day-of-class activity.
Winter break assignments: (1) write outline of play; (2) choose one English/American poem, one Chinese poem to translate, and write one original poem yourself; (3) read and prepare review on novel; (4) listening assignment: BBC interview with Ray Charles