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This course aims to develop students' general English proficiency at the B2 level, with an emphasis on improving reading and writing skills. Approximately 50% of the course content is related to academic contexts. The aim of this course is to enhance students' English reading abilities and develop students’ ability to write well-developed paragraphs. Students will read a variety of text styles with enhanced fluency following coherent and effective use of reading strategies. Students will also actively engage in extensive reading with a critical perspective. For writing, students will build their paragraph writing skills and eventually learn the ability to write essays.

By the end of the course, students will learn to: 
build vocabulary for reading and writing 
read carefully to understand text
take and organize notes for different reading and writing tasks
outline writing tasks
summarize, paraphrase, and respond to reading materials in well-structured writing and clear arguments
express ideas in clear and coherent English, using a range of vocabulary, accurate grammar, effective transitions, and varied sentence structures that demonstrate an appropriate and consistent style for the given context and audience. 

Q: Skills for Success 4 Reading and Writing (Third edition)
Debra Daise/ Charl Norloff
Oxford University Press 2020

Paper Written Midterm 20%
Paper Written Final exam 20%
Others:
Quizzes 15%
Attendance 10%
2 Individual Writings 20%
Homework assignment 10% (pair work activities: oral recording clips, sentence writing and worksheet)
Self-study activities 5% (individual work activities from self-study learning center in the library)

1 Class orientation and course introduction
Unit 2 How do marketers get our attention? 
Reading 2: This Is Why You've Addicted to Your Phone Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with nouns
2 Unit 2 How do marketers get our attention? 
Writing Skill: Organizing and developing an essay
3 Unit 3 What important lessons do we learn as young people?
Reading 1: The Difference Between Fitting In and Belonging, and Why It Matters
Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes and Suffixes
4 Grammar: Subordinators and transitions to compare and contrast
Writing Skill: Writing a compare and contrast essay
5 Unit 4 How can science improve lives? 
Reading 1: Five Innovative Technologies That Bring Energy to the Developing World
Work with the video: Inventions to Save the Planet
Quiz of Unit 2
6 Midterm exam: Unit 2, Unit 3 and Unit 4
7 Unit 5 Should science influence what we eat? 
Reading 1: Less Science, More Common Sense
Vocabulary Skill: Cause and effect collocations
Unit 5 Should science influence what we eat? 
Reading 2: A Personalized Nutrition Company Will Use Your DNA to Tell You What to Eat
Grammar: Agents with the passive voice
8 Unit 6 Does school prepare you for work? 
Reading 1: From Student to Employee: A Difficult Transition
Reading Skill: Using an outline
Unit 6 Does school prepare you for work? 
Writing Skill: Writing an outline
9 Unit 6 Does school prepare you for work? 
Reading 2: Making My First Post-College Career Decision
Vocabulary Skill: Word forms
Work with the video: College Graduate
10 Unit 7 Is discovery always a good thing? 
Reading 1: Alaska's Pebble Mine: Minerals vs. Nature
Vocabulary Skill: Word roots
Unit 7 Is discovery always a good thing? 
Work with the video: The Wind Power Debate
Quiz of Unit 5
11 Final exam: Unit 5, Unit 6, and Unit 7

上課時間為2026/07/06至2026/08/10

每週一、三 09:10-12:00

★今年9月入學本校者，且修習該科總成績達A(含)以上，將可獲得該課程所繳學分費同值之「獎學金」。