Class Cancellation: NO CLASS on 11/7!

Our class on 11/7 is cancelled!
Group meetings will be held instead to make up the missed lesson!

For more information about the meetings, please click the link below.
(http://ncuefreshmanenglishfri.blogspot.tw/2014/10/1121-1128-group-topic-talk-1-draft.html)

Useful Expressions (3): Food & Culture

This time, let's learn more about food and culture, our topic of the week!
Just search the websites below!

1. 20-Minute ESL Lessons - Gourmet Cooking
   (http://www.esl-lab.com/vocab/v-cooking.htm)
2. English Central
   (http://www.englishcentral.com/video)
   *MUST-READ: A Halloween Candy Buffet*
3. POPSUGAR - Food
   (http://www.popsugar.com/food)
   *MUST-READ: This isn't a Trick: How to Pair Wine with Halloween Candy*
4. Taiwan Tourism Bureau - Tastes of Taiwan
   (http://eng.taiwan.net.tw/m1.aspx?sNO=0000206) 

For more information about POCKY, please click the weblink: http://pocky.glico.com/history/!

11/21, 11/28 Group Topic Talk 1 (Draft Outline! Group Meeting!)

The following shows WHEN you have to give the group topic talk.
11/21 Group Topic Talk 1
 Group 7 (11/27: Grains of Talent)
 Group 2 (11/20: Cirque du Soleil)
 Group 1 (11/12: Antoni Gaudi)
 Group 5 (1115: Eat Street 3)
11/28 Group Topic Talk 1
 Group 6 (11/25: Robots and Humans are Closer than Ever)
 Group 4 (11/6: The Day of the Dead)
 Group 3 (11/21: Oversleeping)

GROUP MEETINGS will be held (15 min each) before your topic talk!
Please choose from the dates below.
1. 11/05 (12:00-12:15) - Group 4
2. 11/05 (12:15-12:30) - Group 7
3. 11/05 (12:30-12:45) - Group 6
4. 11/05 (12:45-13:00) - Group 2
5. 11/12 (12:00-12:15) - Group 3
6. 11/12 (12:15-12:30) - Group 1
7. 11/12 (12:30-12:45) - Group 5
Notes: 
(1) You have to show up in a group on time.
(2) Your hard copy of the draft outline is required!

Useful Expressions (2): Relationship (DUE on 10/22)

Here are readings of the week: Ivy Enjoy English Magazine (Pages 30-40)!

As for the group task below, it is DUE on 10/22!
To help you discover more about relationship, our topic of the week, please follow the instructions.
(1) Search the websites below.

• 20-Minute ESL Lessons - Dating and Marriage
  (http://www.esl-lab.com/vocab/v-love.htm)
• BBC The English We Speak
  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theenglishwespeak/)
• EZ Slang - Dating and Romance
  (http://www.ezslang.com/friendfinder-1.htm)
• (Even better ones that you'd like to share with us!)

(2) Select 3-5 idioms/phrases (e.g. blind date) that you find interesting and would like to share with us.
(3) Look them up in search engines, like Google for authentic sentences (namely, sentences used in actual English texts, such as magazine articles and news stories)
(4) Come back here to post a GROUP comment (at least one from each group) that include all your idioms/phrases, together with at least one example sentence for each. (Check the format below.)

Group X

1. blind date (n phr) - In order to be successfully matched up on a blind date, you have to take steps that will ensure you're only going out with people who actually have potential. 
   (From: Cosmopolitan [Online])
2. ...
3. ...
4. ...
5. ...

(5) Contact the teacher (at wendychangnchu@gmail.com) if you have questions.

More about Your Group Report: Useful Expressions for Presentation (1)

Please check out the web sites below for more useful expressions.

• BBC Business Language to Go (esp. Part 4: Presentations)
• BBC Talking Business (esp. Presentations)
• Speak Speak: Business English Vocabulary and Resources (esp. Making Presentations)

Feel free to post your own comments below to share more resources with us!