文档介绍：Syllabus for the course of A New English Course (Level 8)
Course Name: A New English Course( Level 8)
Teacher: Cao Xiao
Learners: Fourth-year students majoring in English in tertiary institutions with a four-year programmed
Scheduled Time: Winter semester
Category: Compulsory
Teaching Hours: 108(18×6)
Course Objectives
A heuristic approach is adopted so that students are able to work on their own initiative and develop active and logical thinking.
The selection of texts is based on the principle of variety, so that students may broaden their scope of knowledge.
Numerous language exercises of different kinds are devised so that students may consolidate and expand their language knowledge and further improve their language skills.
Various types of exercises are designed so that students may acquire integrated language skills in English.
A large language input is given within a limited space so that students may be ensured of adequate language intake.
Teaching Forms and Requirements
Retell, discussion, supporting sentence, lecture, and presentation.
For preparation of class
—Pre-reading questions. Students are required to think over the questions in advance so that they will be prepared for active participation at the time of reading.
—Lexical work. Students try to guess the new words and look them up in an English-English dictionary and select the definitions