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>           Fry's English Delight series 1-4
<br>           BBC Radio 4 In Our Time
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<br>Course Schedule: 
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<br>2/19    Introduction  Fry's English Delight: Class
<br>        Fry's English Delight: Speaking Proper
<br>2/26    Fry's English Delight: So Wrong It's Right and Metaphor Quiz
<br>3/5     Fry's English Delight: He says, she says  
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<br>3/12    ABC News  and Winner Takes All     Quiz
<br>3/19    ABC News, Wall Street 
<br>3/26    Reith Lecture 2011 
<br>4/2     Reith Lecture 2012  Quiz
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<br>4/9     Midterm 
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<br>4/16    The Value of Culture
<br>4/23    The Brothers Grimm (from BBC Radio 4 In Our Time)
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<br>4/30    Fry on The Knowledge
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<br>5/7     Fry's English Delight: Cliche and The Story of X  Quiz
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<br>5/14     The Destruction of Carthage (from BBC Radio 4 In Our Time)
<br>5/21    Sherlock Holmes   Quiz 
<br>5/28    Sherlock Holmes  
<br>6/4     Sherlock Holmes
<br>6/11     Final
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<br>Grading
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<br>Quiz 5x6%=30%, Midterm 25%, final 25%, Attendance and Participation 20% 
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