1. Freshmen English I: Reading and Writing
Instructor: Dr. Wei-chen Janet Hsu
Office: H431
Date: Sep, 2013

2. Week One: Introduction to the Course

3. 1. Topics covered in the course are as follows:
(1) Articles from Studio Classroom Oct, 2013 & Mar, 2014
(2) Group Presentations of Four Big American Holidays:
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter
(3) Basic English Sentence Patterns
(4) Sentence-Building Practices
(5) Practices for the New Toeic Tests

4. Oral/Written Presentation for Western Holidays
1. The content should cover the following items:
(1) The history/origin/meaning of Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas
(2) Holiday Activities
(3) Food for the Holidays
(4) Others (e.g. housing decoration, traditional customs)
2. Written Reports (in English):
* 3-4 pages + the cover page (including the topic and your group members)
3. Oral Presentations (in Chinese or English)
* with Powerpoint

5. 1. The illustration for the relationship of the writing terms:
letter  word  phrase  clause  sentence
 paragraph  essay  chapter/ unit
 book
2. All sentences have subjects. They also have verbs.
The verbs tell:
(1) what a subject does: go, play, help, study
e.g. My friends helped me.
Three kids were playing together.
(2) what a subject has, is, or feels: have, is , want
e.g. The building is very tall.
John was in the room.

6. ** Please arrange words into sentences. (句子重組)
1. spaghetti/ most kids/ like/.
2. animals/ they/ see/ in the zoo/many/.
3. tomato sauce/ on their spaghetti/ some kids/ put/.
4. have/ on snowy/ drivers/ roads/more accidents/.
5. very much/ I /my family/ love/.

7. ** Parts of Speech
1. dream (n.)/ dream (v.)
(i) She ___ about becoming a famous dancer.
(ii) My ___ is to travel to India.
2. love (v. )/ love (n.)/ lovely (a.)
(i) Your dress is ____.
(ii) Marilyn ___ hip-hop music.
(iii) John and Mary are in ___.
3. friend (n.)/ friendly (a.)
(i) My best ___ lives in Mexico.
(ii) It is important to be ___ to others.
4. free (a.)/ freedom (n.)
(i) In college, you have the ___ to choose your major.
(ii) There is a ___ movie playing tonight.