Reminder: Grading Policy

The following presents our grading policy as shown in the course syllabus.

• Attendance (20%)
• Class participation (quiz performance included) (10%)
• Group topic talks (30%)
• Midterm (15%) + pretest (5%)
• Final (15%) + posttest (5%)

Reminder: FINAL Preparation

Our final is coming! 
Please note that the final will take place on 1/16!

Also remember that the final will
(1) cover (a) all the word lists (topics 1-15), and (b) both November magazine (11/1-30) and December magazine (12/1-31) and
(2) include both listening and reading comprehension questions (4 question types each, similar to our pretest, though only 25 questions in total).

• Listening: picture description (2 questions), question and response (5), short conversation (3), short talk (2)
• Reading: sentence completion (6 questions), reading comprehension (2), text completion (5), Chinese-to-English translation (EXTRA 5 for a total of 10 bonus points)

For more information, please check our announcement made earlier.
(Click the link here: http://ncuefreshmanenglishfri.blogspot.tw/2014/09/course-syllabus.html)

Reminder: Outside Reading from Topic Talk 1-2

Read outside readings for our final exam! 
Be sure to read ALL the outside readings shared by the groups during their topic talks 1 and 2!

Note that the teacher will pick out 1 to 2 articles to test your reading comprehension ability in the final exam.