Course Name: Intermediate Listening
<br>Time: Thursday 13:10~15:00
<br>Instructor: Yi-Chuang E. Lin
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<br>Course Description: No specific textbook is required for the course. Instead, students are advised to listen to BBC radio programs regularly. In addition to midterm and final exams, quiz will be applied once a fortnight. 
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<br>Reference: Intelligent Business Upper Intermediate Coursebook 
<br>           Pearson Education Limited, 2006
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<br>Course Schedule: 
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<br>2/26    Thought For the Day (from BBC Radio 4)
<br>3/5     Darwin, My Ancestor (from BBC Radio 4)
<br>3/12    Terrorism, Fascism and the Crusade (from BBC Radio 4 Start the Week)
<br>        Quiz
<br>3/19    ABC News    Clean Up the Financial Clutter 
<br>3/26    Autism, Bad Science and Outsider (from BBC Radio 4 Start the Week) 
<br>        Quiz
<br>4/9     Reith Lecture 2006 Daniel Barenboim In the Beginning was Sound
<br>4/16    Reith Lecture 2006  
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<br>4/23     Midterm 
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<br>4/30    Reith Lecture 2001 Tom Kirkwood The End of Age
<br>5/7     The Brothers Grimm (from BBC Radio 4 In Our Time)
<br>        Quiz
<br>5/14    A Point of View (from BBC Radio 4)
<br>5/21    Darwin, Marx and Freud (from BBC Radio 3)
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<br>6/4     The Destruction of Carthage (from BBC Radio 4 In Our Time)
<br>6/11    Swift’s “A Modest Proposal" (from BBC Radio 4 In Our Time)
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<br>6/18    Reith Lecture 
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<br>6/25    Final
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<br>Grading
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<br>Quiz 5x6%=30%, Midterm 30%, final 30%, Attendance and Participation 10% 
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