综合英语一

Comprehensive English 1/3

《新视野大学英语 ( 读写 ) 》 Book 1

Ellen TONG

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm Forbes

No man can reveal to you aught (anything) but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. …If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ---Khalil Gibran, The Prophet: On Teaching

"...(I)f you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly.“ --Plato

On Education

综合英语一 Comprehensive English

1/3• 《新视野大学英语 ( 读写 ) 》 Book 1

•Ellen TONG •ellentongs@163.com•Ellen’s Workshop Web: ellensangreal.org Wechat: ellens_tales

Part One: What and HowCourse Introduction

教学计划评分方式学习方式纪律要求

Teaching Plan

Contents: 1. Textbook: 6-10 units (See the official version of teaching plan) ( 《新视野大学英语 （读写）》 Book 1)

-Vocabulary, Grammar, etc. (skill)-Reading comprehension, Writing, etc. (competence)-Information, critical thinking, etc. (spirit)2. Listening, Speaking (related or unrelated to the textbook)3. The world, Knowing

Teaching Plan

Requirements:1. Independent speeches, reports and/or other

speaking activities by individual students for each learning session (to be scored: 5%/40%)

2. A Dictation for each unit (to be scored: 10%/40%)3. Quizzes at irregular intervals (to be scored if

collected) 4. Assignments (to be scored if collected or presented:

10%/40% together with quizzes)5. Always be prepared for and engaged in

classroom activities (15% / 40% , 9%+/-)6. NO lateness or absenteeism, Nor disruptions in classes

Plus: •Keys to exercises & Translations of Texts: to find and download on my teaching website (ellensangreal.org)•Instructor’s course material: to download from the same website•Official set of Course material (PPT&MP3): to download from www.heep.cn （注册—搜索—下载）•CET related: -independent training to depend-basic training in this course -a separate course to select

Teaching Plan

Grading

40% for class performance in this course

（综英的平时分）30% for a speaking test

（期末 1 次口语测试，由综英老师主考）30% for a listening test

（期末 1 次听力统考）

GradingClass performance (40%)1. Individual speaking activities (one for each): 5%

2. Dictation: 10%

3. Assignments & quizzes: 10%

4. Class participation: 15% (9%+/-) 口头作业 / 课堂提问 / 课堂任务： --plus: +0.3~1%/time 不等 -- 主动发言 / 发言良好 --minus: -0.3~1%/time

-- 口头作业抽到却未准备或胡说敷衍 -- 提问屡次拒答 / 长期不参与讨论5. Reward and Deduction

--Reward: extra contribution to the classroom activities

--Punishment

纪律： -1~5%/ 次不等： - 迟到严重且态度恶劣； - 玩手机或聊天屡教不改： 逃课： -2%/ 次 (-1%/ 节 )

Grouping

• Please form 6-8 groups in the class, with about 4 people in each.

• Each group should have a group leader.

• Bring the group name lists next week.

(also mark the name of the group leaders and write down their phone numbers)

How to be a successful learner• Give your attentions in the class, and always be

prepared• Read a lot and memorize a lot of words before and after

classes• Learn from both textbooks and any other useful

resources• Ask questions and think independently • Do homework: written or oral form or in groups• Make Plans for your own • Independent study and thinking is SUPER important

More discussionson study methods to be held in the learning of

Unit 1

Part Two: Why hereCourse Spirit

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm Forbes

No man can reveal to you aught (anything) but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. …If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ---Khalil Gibran, The Prophet: On Teaching

"...(I)f you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly.“ --Plato

On Education

“Plato’s Cave”

Stage 1 (turning to the light)-Seeing the reality, what would be his responses?

When one was freed from his fetters and compelled to stand up suddenly and turn his head around and walk and to lift up his eyes to the light, and in doing all this felt pain and, because of the dazzle and glitter of the light, was unable to discern the objects whose shadows he formerly saw, what do you suppose would be his answer if someone told him that what he had seen before was all a cheat and an illusion, but that now, being nearer to reality and turned toward more real things, he saw more truly?

And if also one should point out to him each of the passing objects and constrain him by questions to say what it is,

do you not think that he would be at a loss and that he would regard what he formerly saw as more real than the things now pointed out to him?”

And if he were compelled to look at the light itself,

would not that pain his eyes, and would he not turn away and flee to those things which he is able to discern and regard them as in very deed more clear and exact than the objects pointed out?

Stage 2 (into the light)

-What would he see and feel? and when he came out into the light, that his eyes would be filled with its beams so that he would not be able to see even one of the things that we call real?

at first he would most easily discern the shadows and, after that, the likenesses or reflections in water of men and other things, and later, the things themselves, and from these he would go on to contemplate the appearances in the heavens and heaven itself, more easily by night, looking at the light of the stars and the moon, then by day the sun and the sun's light.

Stage 3 (be enlightened)

“And at this point he would infer and conclude that this it is that provides the seasons and the courses of the year and presides over all things in the visible region, and is in some sort the cause of all these things that they had seen.”

Stage 4 (the mission impossible)

Would he be able to help his fellow-bondsmen out?

“Well then, if he recalled to mind his first habitation and what passed for wisdom there, and his fellow-bondsmen, do you not think that he would count himself happy in the change and pity them?”

And if it were possible to lay hands on and to kill the man who tried to release them and lead them up, would they not kill him?” “They certainly would…”

PlatoThe Republic IdeaCaveParable & Metaphor

Plato's Parable of the Cavethe Republic: Plato, Republic, Book VII

In this dialogue by Plato, Socrates and Glaucon are discussing the aim and character of a good education. This parable is often regarded as the best summary of Platonism because of its emphasis on the truth of what is good and beautiful, and because of the winsome manner in which Plato asserts that what we regard as reality is actually only a shadow or copy of reality. True reality consists in the forms grasped by reason alone.

Q1: What does Plato’s cave make you think of? Perspectives for your reference: Purpose / reality of educationWhat makes effective Methods of LearningEducation for a life timeEnlightenment movementScience Process of growing upDream and reality (philosophical interpretation)Influence of Internet

Q2: Have you ever been through / witnessed anything similar to the cave experience? (stories/theories)

Discussion (After-class tasks)

Have a casual discussion with your new classmates. Please share your precious views on the above two questions. Note: use as much English as you can. After the discussion, please organize one of your best ideas in brief English and tell every one / bring it to the class and ready to share.

To assignments

“The light”

Veritas-spirit of university In Roman mythology, Veritas, meaning truth,

was the goddess of truth. This Latin word now appears in the mottos of

many colleges and universities. Indiana University and Yale University: Lux et

Veritas ("Light and Truth"). California State University: Vox Veritas Vita

("Speak the Truth as a way of Life"). Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical

Education and Research: Veritas Curat ("Truth Cures")

Howard University: Veritas et Utilitas ("Truth and Service“)

Light / Enlightenment --Equivalents in Chinese contexts

A Confucian ideal ：大学之道，在明明德，在亲民，在止于至善……

《大学》第一章A Taoist interpretation ：不自见故明，不自是故彰；……

（《道德经》二十二章）自见者不明；自是者不彰；……

（《道德经》二十四章）

形而上者谓之道 , 形而下者谓之器 , 化而裁之谓之变，推而行之谓之通，举而措之天下之民谓之事业。

《易经 - 系辞》

Education makes the world and history personal.

Part Three: To Know you

Stories, not names

Writing task: write a true life story with 3-5 sentences

Rule NO.1: A TRUE life story about YOU (that enlightened, shaped you, changed you, impress you, confuse you, or that makes no sense but a good story)

Discussion: What is a story? (what happened to whom; not pure emotions or general self-introduction)

Rule NO. 2: 3-5 sentences & one sentence a line & leave space between lines

Essays with more than 5 sentences or less than 3 sentences will be returned for revising. Essays that leave no space between lines may not get corrections for language problems.

Discussion: What makes one sentences?

Writing task: write a true life story with 3-5 sentences

Key factors for self checking:

-what makes ONE sentence,

-punctuation, spelling, diction, grammar

Advice: Revise it for many times until you are happy with it. Hand in the final draft. Correct mistakes for each other with your new friends.

Deadline: 10.12/14 (first class next week)

To assignments

Assignment

• Discussion on Plato’s cave (next class)

• Write a true life story (1st class next week)

• Student No. 1: prepare a mini report (1st class next week)

Remind: Grouping

Book reports @Student No. 1-12: each prepare to give a book report of 1-2 minutes. One report each week. [You can switch with other students of No. 10~X if necessary]

(Other students will be given other speaking tasks at appropriate times)The first book report by student No.1 will be given in the first class next week.Basic requirements of a book report English language > Chinese Books > articles / short stories Book title & author & other crucial background info Why you recommend it (there must be something different and killing great: language, way of story telling, … )