Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University



2202111  English I

 

Puckpan Tipayamontri

Office: BRK 1106

Office Hours: M 1–3 and by appointment

Phone: 0-2218-4703

puckpan.t@chula.ac.th

 

Section 8

BRK 312

T 8–9:30, W 11–1, Th 8–9:30

 

Tentative Schedule

Week 1

Aug. 9

Unit 1: Communication

Reading

Discussion: connections; phrasal verbs; nonverbal communication   

Aug. 10

Unit 1: Communicating Confidently
Reading
  • New Language Leader pp. 8–9
  • The Continuous Aspect
Discussion: meeting new people; giving a presentation; participating in a seminar or meeting; idioms; the continuous aspect

Aug. 11

Unit 1: Who Does the Talking?
Reading
Discussion: the perfect aspect; gender and discourse

Week 2

Aug. 16

Unit 1: Communication 

Reading

  • New Language Leader p. 1–11
Discussion: practice reading passage

Aug. 17

Unit 1: Communication  

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 1–11
Discussion: examples paragraph writing

Aug. 18

No class (Teachers Day)

Week 3

Aug. 23

Unit 1: Communication 

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 1–11
  • Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) chapters 2–73
Discussion: collocations

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.

Aug. 24

Unit 1: Communication 

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 1–11
Discussion: aspects review

Aug. 25

Unit 2: Environment  

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 16–17
  • Collocations
Discussion: collocations

Week 4

Aug. 30

Unit 2: Changing Environment

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 18–19
  • Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) chapters 79–139
Oral Presentation:

Aug. 31

Unit 2: Extreme Environment

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 20–21
Oral Presentation:  

Sep. 1

Unit 2: Wind Farm

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 22–23
Oral Presentation:

Class begins in BRK 302

Week 5

Sep. 6

Unit 2: Energy  

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 24–25
  • Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) chapters 149–179
Oral Presentation:

Sep. 7

Unit 2: Energy 

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 16–25
*Writing 1 (examples paragraph; 20 points, 1 hour): You will be given topics from which you will choose one to develop into a paragraph. It is useful to take a few minutes before writing to formulate a clear, focused, and engaging topic sentence to begin your paragraph, and outline/organize vivid examples to illustrate and support that topic sentence.

Sep. 8

Unit 3: Sport  

Reading

Oral Presentation:
  • Pimpailin
  • Pawi

Week 6

Sep. 13

Unit 3: Martial Arts 

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 28–29
  • Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time chapters 181–211
Oral Presentation:
  • Sorawit
  • Narunchada

Sep. 14

Unit 3: Getting to the Top  

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 30–31
*Reading Test 1 (20 points, 1 hour)

Sep. 15

Unit 3: Getting to the Top 

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 30–31
Oral Presentation: Khemiga

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.
  • 11:10–11:20 a.m.: group 1
  • 11:20–11:30 a.m.: group 2
  • 11:30–11:40 a.m.: group 3
  • 11:40–11:50 a.m.: group 5
Sep. 20

Unit 3: Who Is the Greatest?

Reading
  • New Language Leader pp. 32–33
  • Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) chapter 223–end
Discussion:

Oral Presentation: Sirada

Sep. 21

Unit 3: Earnings

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 34–35
Discussion:

Oral Presentation: Ratawan

Sep. 22

Unit 3: Sports

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 26–35
Discussion:

Oral Presentation: Pornpreya

Week 8

Sep. 27

Review

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 1–35

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.

Sep. 28

Midterm Exam (Midterm week: September 26–30, 2016)


2 hours; in class; grammar and vocabulary, external reading: Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  • Review
    • Two-minute Animated Grammar
      • The Continuous Aspect (Jutarat, Natcha, Nichamon; 1:42 min.)
      • Continuous Aspect Clues (Chanidapa, Panomphorn, Phantira, Sorawit)
      • The Perfect Aspect (Chanunda, Natlada, Pornpreya)
      • Indirect Questions (Khemiga, Pimpailin, Trayut)
      • Quantifiers (Oab-boon, Sirada, Unnun; 2:19 min.)
      • Definite and Zero Articles (Narunchada, Pawi, Ratawan; 1:11 min.)
  • Tests Discussion

Sep. 29

No class (Midterm week: September 26–30, 2016)

Week 9

Oct. 4

Unit 4: Medicine

Reading

Oral Presentation: Natcha

Oct. 5

Unit 4: Malaria

Reading

Oral Presentation: Nidchamon

Medical Breakthrough Match:
  • Anesthetist people, read the passages on aspirin and anesthesia on p. 37 of the coursebook. (Phanthira, Unnun, Jutarat, Sorawit, Natcha, Pornpreya, Pimpailin, Oab-boon, Panomphorn, and Chanunda)
  • Arthritis people, passages on X-ray and penicillin on p. 165 of the coursebook. (Chanidapa, Trayut, Khemiga, Sirada, Narunchada, Natlada, Pawi, Nidchamon, and Ratawan)
  • Everyone, find out the medical breakthrough related to Krisana Kraisintu. Answer the questions: what, where, when, how, results/benefits, and problems.

Oct. 6

Unit 4: Bionic Eye

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 40–41
Oral Presentation: Natlada

Week 10

Oct. 11

Unit 4: Bionic Eye

Reading

Oral Presentation: Oab-boon

Oct. 12

Unit 4: Homeopathy

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 44–45
Oral Presentation: Phanthira

Oct. 13

Unit 4: Medicine

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 36–45
Oral Presentation: Panomphorn

*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:
  • 11:00–11:10: Communication and Global Transportation
  • 11:10–11:20: Literature and Film
  • 11:20–11:30: Sports

Week 11

Oct. 18

Unit 5: Transport

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 46–47
Oral Presentation: Jutarat

Oct. 19

Unit 5: Transport in the Future

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 48
*Writing 2 (reasons)
Oct. 20

No class (Commencement)


*Final project group members responsibilities list and project outline due (by e-mail)

Week 12

Oct. 25

Unit 5: Transport in the Future

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 48–49
Oral Presentation: 

Oct. 26

Unit 5: Great Railway Journeys

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 50–51
Oral Presentation:

Oct. 27

Unit 5: Beauciel

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 52–53
Oral Presentation:

*Final project scripts due (speaking and media scripts, paragraphs draft)

Week 13

Nov. 1

Unit 5: Travel Statistics

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 54–55
Oral Presentation: Chanunda

Practice Reading Test 2:

Nov. 2

Unit 5: Transport

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 46–55
*Reading Test 2: (20 points, 1 hour)  Like in the practice reading exercises and tests in your supplementary packet, you will be given one article to read followed by questions that ask you to demonstrate your comprehension, ability to conceptualize information, and writing skills (that you can express your ideas clearly and effectively in writing). For example, there may be short answer questions, true/false, multiple choice, and fill in the blanks.

Nov. 3

Unit 6: Literature and Film

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 56–57
Oral Presentation: Chanidapa
 
Practice Writing 3 (pros and cons)

Week 14

Nov. 8

Unit 6: The Great Gatsby

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 58–59
Oral Presentation: Trayut

Nov. 9

Unit 6: PISA Reports

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 60–61
Oral Presentation: Unnun

*Listening Quiz 1 (5 points)

Nov. 10

Unit 6: The New Film Project

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 62
*Writing 3 (pros and cons)

*Final project written work final draft due

Week 15

Nov. 15

Unit 6: The New Film Project

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 62–63
    • PISA

Nov. 16

Unit 6: Literature and Film

Reading

  • New Language Leader p. 64
  • Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo (2005) excerpt

Nov. 17

Unit 6: Literature and Film

Reading

  • New Language Leader p. 65
  • Skyfall (2012)
*Listening Quiz 2 (5 points)

Week 16

Nov. 22

Review

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 36–65
  • Supplement Packet
  • MyEnglishLab (online exercises; our course ID is i6to-pup7-rhrh-judf)
*Final project run-through

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

Nov. 24

Review

Reading

  • New Language Leader pp. 36–65
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.

Week 17

Nov. 29

Final Exam (8:30–11:30 a.m.) There are four parts to the final: vocabulary, grammar, reading, and writing.

  • Review vocabulary in your Language Leader coursebook from units 4–6 and in the supplement packets.
  • Review grammar
  • Review the reading practice exercises in the supplement packet
  • Review "Paragraph Writing" in the supplement packet

 

 


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