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Intermediate English Conversation III Ba & Bb
June 2, 9, 16; 4, 11, 18, 2008
Final Presentations
Jessie Ho
30-50 Minutes/ Per Group
Room 242 (Monday/ Wednesday)
Instructions: Passion is the essence of talk. You are earnest in telling about your
information, idea, opinion, doubt and question in surpport of the presentation. Your
indifference and cold manner doesn’t help much in bringing about a perfect result
which will satisfy the presenters a lot and will be grateful for your feedback.
Interaction moves the scenes forward; silence spreads doubt which might be
discouraging to the speaker.
So we suggest better management of the outline, question time and comments. If
there are not interaction, we don’t think the talk is a successful one.
Constant participation in class means a diligent student with an intellectual mind. You
are still young. Young people are eager to show their thoughts without flinching.
Guided topics
Public Speaking
1. Dale Carnegie’s How To Develop Self-Confidence And Influence People By
Public Speaking 1 Developing Courage and Self-Confidence 2 Self-Confidence
Through Preparation 3 How Famous Speakers Prepared Their Addresses 4 The
Improvement of Memory 5 Essential Elements in Successful Speaking 6 The Secret
of Good Delivery 7 Platform Presence and Personality 8 How to Open a Talk 9 How
to Close a Talk 10 How to Make Your Meaning Clear 11 How to Interest Your
Audience 12 Improving Your Diction
2. ESL/EFL Teaching and Learning/ English Teaching and Testing in Taiwan
3. Special trends in Modern Literature
4. Follow-up stories from media in people, economic prospectives, social norms.
5. Meaning in Life
The Hours, the book and the film; Why I am not afraid of the hours?
Art & Entertainment
6. Virginia Woolf and Feminist Movement; A Room of One’s Own : In this book,
Woolf ponders the significant question of whether or not a woman could produce art
of the high quality of Shakespeare. In doing so, she examines women’s historical
experience as well as the distinctive struggle of the woman artist; Independence for
women; What are women like?; Why has the woman artist led a life of such
“disorder”and struggle?; What does Woolf mean by the statement,”Who can measure
the heart and passion of a poet’s heart when it is caught and tangled in a
woman’s body”? A woman needs a room of her own she can set out writing to free
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her mind. What does Woolf mean when she says, “There is no gate, not lock, no bolt
that you can set upon the freedom of the mind ”?
7. Feminist Men’s Movement: What are certain rights that men ask for? One accepts
the feminist condemnation of men as oppressors, while the other rejects it. Presently
the most controversial issue is joint custody of children in divorce. Men, feminists
were claiming, had all the power, and no one was willing to listen to the male
spokesman, unless they first contoured their comments to meet the perceptions of the
women's' movement. For example, as one group facilitator's manual suggested, a
purpose of consciousness rising is, "To find non-oppressive and mutually beneficial
ways of relating to women or a specific woman companion, friend or wife." Young
men who grew their hair long, although they were sometimes called "sissies," helped
set trends that were beginning to question and redefine masculinity. Allegiance to the
military establishment was no longer viewed as manly. With more and more males
open to redefining traditional masculinity, masculinity should be redefined.
What are men like? Virginia Woolf: There should be man-womanly and
woman-manly.
8. Workplace—It’s a Wrap. You’re Hired! Recruiters, get your popcorn. The YouTube
generation is discovering the video resume. TIME Digest. No.135, May 2007. PP.
108-109.
9. The New Cancer Fighter (And Other Hot Drugs on the Way): From Exubera to
Zostavax to Miraviroc, the pharmacecutical pipeline is filled with promise. By Alice
Park. TIME EXPRESS No.123, May 2006. PP. 29-31.
Living with Cancer: The toll of the disease is still high, but more and more patients
are fighting it to a draw, enjoying one active, busy year at a time. TIME Digest, No.
135, May 2007. PP. 68-73.
10. Inside the Heart: Here’s what happens when your heart malfunctions—and what
doctors can do to save your life. Time, May 10, 2004. PP. 44-46. (Heart Attack,
Angina, Treatment, Stroke, Congestive Heart Failure) What You Can Do. Stop
Smoking, Lose Weight, Lower Cholesterol, Control Blood Pressure, Don’t Count on
Hormones, Reduce Stress.
Global Warming/Asia
11. What Now? Our feverish planet badly needs a cure. Climate change is caused by a
lot of things, and it will take a lot of people to fix it. There’s a role for big thinkers,
power players, those with deep pockets-and the rest of us. By Jeffrey Kluger. TIME
Digest, No. 135, May 2007. PP. 13- 47. We could be shortsighted and brutish, hungry
for food, resources, land—and heedless of the mess we leave behind trying to get
them. Since 1750, human activities have overloaded carbon dioxide, and the
long-term solution is to reduce the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. “Building can use
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passive as well as active energy,” ssays Thom Mayne of the firm Morphosis.
Wal-Mart trys to reduce packaging, waste and energy use. Some companies know
there’s a virtue in going green. Alcoa, BP America, Duke Energy, General Electruc,
Lenman Brothers, Caterpillar and PG&E. Limit greenhouse emissions. Curb sulfur
dioxide 對二氧化硫設限—the leading cause of acid rain (1990).Arnold
Schwarzenegger committed California to a 25% reduction in greenhouse gases by
2020. Between 1990 and 2004, energy consumption rose 37% in India and 53% in
China. 31 Things We Can Do. 1. Turn food into fuel, Ethanol 乙醇 is the alternative
fuel . Biofuels: corn, soybean, switchgrass 風傾草, municipal waste and used cooking
oil. Most new cars are capable of running on E10 (10% ethanol and 90% gas). 2.
Get blueprints for a green house. 3. Change your lightbulbs (the compact fluorescent
lightbulb 精緻螢光燈泡). 7-watt CFLs are comparable to a regular 40-watt bulb. 4.
Pay the carbon tax . 5. Ditch the mansion.Oversize houses require more energy to heat
and cool than smaller ones. 6. Take another look at vintage clothes 古董衫. 7. Hang
up a clothes line. 8. Ride the bus. 9. Move to a nigh-rise. Most walk, bike or ride
public transit to work—all more efficient transport than the best hybrids 混合動力車.
10. Pay your bills online. 11. Open a windor. 12. Ask the experts for an energy audit
of your home 能源檢查.13. Check the label (gass mileage). 14. Skip the steak. If you
switch to vegetarianism, you can shrink your carbon footprint by up to 1.4 tons of
carbon dioxide a year. 15. Just sau mp tp [;astoc bags. 16. Support your local farmer.
17. Have a green wedding. 18. Remove the tie. 19. Shut off your computer. A screen
saver is not an energy saver. Shutting it off would reduce the machine’s CO2
emissions 83%, to just 63kg a year. 20. Kill the lights at quitting time. 21. End the
paper chase. 22. Think outside the packaging. 23. Make your garden grow. 24. Geta
carbon budget. 25. Fill’er up with passengers. 26. Make one right turn after another.
27. Plant a tree in the tropics. 28. Drive green on the scenic route. 29. Consume less,
share more, live simply.
The Global Business
12. Solar Flare:Shares of Twainese solar-cell makers are hot, for now. By Tim
Culpan. TIME EXPRESS, No. 123, May 2006. PP. 42-3.
13. A Billionaire’s Bet. Paul Allen’s back with a new mini computer. But with
powerful mobile phones on the way, is there a niche for a shrunken laptop? TIME
Digest, No. 135, May 2007. PP. 48~51.
14. A Backlash Against Globalization? Trade and cross-border investment are back in
the political arena amid worries about job losses and economic sovereignty. 全球化
趨勢造成反撲? 隨著各國憂慮失業問題加劇及經濟主權喪失 貿易與跨國投資兩
項議題重返政治競技場 TIME EXPRESS, May 2006. PP. 70-5
Life/Health
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15.
The New Science of Happiness—What makes the human heart sing?
Researchers are taking a close look. What they’ve found may surprise you By Claudia
Wallis. TIME EXPRESS, April 2005. PP. 51-61. From TIME, Vol. 165, No. 8.
The Real Truth About Money—Why we remain keen for cash even though it often
gives us more social anxiety than satisfaction By Gregg Easterbrook. PP. 62-67.
The Funny Thing About Laughter—It’s no joke: laughing may be one of nature’s
cleverest tricks for keeping us healthy and safe. By Jeffrey Kluger. PP. 68-72.
A Deeper Sense of Happiness—Buddhism teaches that the mind, not the wallet, is the
path to contentment By Pankaj Mishra. PP. 73-75.
16. My Search for the Perfect Apple: Should it be organic? Should it be locally grown?
Making sense of food in 2007. TIME Digest, May 2007. PP. 75-89.
17. Cuddle with Care: Forget about bird flu—you’re more likely to get sick from a pet.
By Joan Capuzzi, V.M.D.別亂抱 寵物還比較容易讓你生病 PP. 108. Cat-Scratch
Disease 貓抓症; Toxoplasmosis 弓虫病; Salmonellosis and Campylobacterosis 沙門
氏桿菌症及彎曲菌症 Ringworm 金錢癬; Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus
Aureus 多重抗藥性金黃色葡萄球菌
18. Hormone Therapy Redeemed: After years of conflicting results, the treatment for
menopause is more or less back where it started. TIME Digest, May 2007. PP. 96-8.
Impromptu/Speech
Three Most Important Ways in the Pursuit of Happiness
How do young people prepare to meet the challenges in globalization?
There should be minimum wages.
The Essence of innovation/cooperation in the Development of an Individual
Debate
Resolved: That there should not be nuclear power plant in Taiwan.
Resolved: That we should take part in global community by the name R.O.C. (Against
those who suggest to join by the name Taiwan)
Negotiation
Negotiate with mainland China in foreign relations.
Story-telling or Drama
Your topics:
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