2009年春季英語夜間班最後兩梯次招生中

Abstract

大家都知道英語很重要，本校人文與社會教育中心舉辦完全免費的英語夜間班，提供本校學生和教職員學習英語的好機會！本學期還有兩次機會，敬請把握。可直接前往，不用事先報名。 時間：2009年6月4日和6月11日，週四18:00～20:00。 地點：第一教學大樓111教室 老師：Mr. Tim O’Brien﹝Mr. Tim O’Brien 在數所大專任教9年，曾在本校兼任，並曾擔任本校英語夜間班與暑假班的老師。老師發音清晰，討論的內容有趣, 教法生動活潑，深受學生喜愛！﹞ 課程內容：課程將以英語會話為主, 討論的主題包括家庭, 運動旅遊, 藝術, 文化等。教材取自報章、雜誌、網路與書籍等。 參加者的程度： 程度不限, 歡迎試聽。老師發音清晰可以增進大家的聽力。藉著與老師對話以及在小組中的交談也可增進大家的口說能力。 註：

本活動已申請公務人員終身學習護照時數認證。 聯絡人江惠蓮 (7308), 謝靜宜 (5308) 前六周的上課內容記錄於下(Written by Jewel Lin)： (4/16)

老師一個一個認識我們大家，同時也讓我們問他問題。他有問必答喔！他說他因為不想當律師而隻身來台灣找朋友就落地生根了。他希望我們在這個課堂只能使用英文來對話，盡量不說中文，創造一個純英語的學習環境。他提供了一些美語諺語來作為教材，將班上同學分為三到四人的小組，分別用英文進行討論。最後再由他來總結，釋疑與舉例，過程十分風趣生動，同時也學到了不少英語名句的用法，無論是電子郵件還是聊天，相信更能無往不利。

Tim O'Brien let us call him Tim. First, he did a little bit of research to evaluate everybody's English ability by asking students questions. In turn, he made us ask him, people raised various questions about this curious teacher, and he answered each question with at-easy humor. There were about 60 people in the whole, but he seemed very competent for taking over the situation. Later in the class, he helped us split into groups formed by 3~4 people each, and we discussed about American proverbs listed on a paper. He 'd like us to talk in English only, no Chinese. To build a totally English environment, he introduced us some "Rhetoric tools", which stands for something like "Example-using, Comparison, Acting -it out." Using them as often as we can will do great benefit to our English expression. We can speak more fluently and more vividly. Almost everyone is capable but only lack the activation to say it out loud, Tim's class provides the best chance. Make hay while the sun shines, why not?

(4/23)

著名的哈佛大學，提供了一個人文薈萃的環境，吸引全世界最傑出的人士齊聚一堂，究竟哈佛具備了甚麼樣的條件， 能讓莘莘學子如此趨之若鶩呢？想必是在那個菁英輩出的氛圍，所創造出源源不絕的活力吧！那麼，是怎樣的人才， 才夠資格進入哈佛？特別是哈佛醫學院這種人人擠破頭想一窺奧祕的地方。Tim這次讓我們扮演教授，對提出申請的 學生品頭論足，如果你夠傑出，才能夠經過嚴格的篩檢！

The world famous Harvard University, providing such an extraordinary humane atmosphere, attracts the most outstanding group of people from all over the globe. With what kind of resources is Harvard equipped, make it become the top university of the US? In the unique case of Harvard medical school, only the Straight A's out of the straight A's students can get the chance to peer inside. Let's discuss what a Harvard medical professor should take consider of. If you're excellent, you're in; if you're not, you're out!

(4/30)

本次的課程內容十分靈活，同學們討論十分熱烈。Tim帶進了一些有趣的議題，讓同學們發表意見，他則扮演誘導腳色， 時而和我們進行辯論，帶給我們新的觀點與思維，如著名的橄欖球員Michael Vick虐犬事件，就讓我們就動物權利討論，挑戰舊有觀點。

What goals should a student set before he or she go to a college? What make college experiences so important in every student's life? We reconsider it and inspected our own school days in the past few years. Next we discussed what qualities should a teacher possessed, let the students be the judge. Then we discussed about the case of Michael Vick, the infamous US football player, and his notorious hobby of tormenting and killing puppies, which brought us to debate about animal rights and animal testing.

(5/7)

延續上個禮拜的議題，我們對於權利與自由進行更深入的討論。例如言語權，投票權，婚姻，生育，種種與社會既定紀律相扞格的觀點，我們都加以討論其正反意見。其他議題還有安樂死，動物獻祭，禁藥的使用等等。最後的半小時，老師給我們一些謎語，增加很多樂趣。

We talked about rights and freedom, which include the freedom of speech, the freedom of vote, the morality of abortion, homosexual marriages, suicides, euthanasia, the disputed issue of animal sacrifices, bigamy, narcotic drug using in native tribe ceremonies. And after that, Tim played English riddles with us.

(5/14)

迷信是難以用科學解釋的，但是在科技發達、日新月異的現今社會，人們卻總是甘於遵守一些瑣碎的細小規則，即便那在外人眼中看起來是微不足道，甚至是荒唐可笑！Tim與我們分享了許多有趣的迷信，以及人們的作法，然後我們在對於其背後的深刻含意來做討論。像是有些老外就深信打破鏡子會帶來七年的厄運，但是很神奇的是，只要灑一把鹽巴到背後就可以解除了。當然，通常迷信是不需要科學解釋的，但是他對於我們的傳統文化的重要性，甚至是之於我們日常生活中的小細節，都是有一定影響性的。 PS. Tim老師希望我們能表演一些簡單有趣的小魔術，大家可以事先準備，在下次課堂時使出你的渾身解數，讓大家的下巴掉到地板上！

Today we talked about beliefs and superstitions! There are strange phenomena going on everyday around us, but how do we find the specific explanation? None. So we talked about superstitions in our culture, in Christianity, and in the other part of the world. "The other one's superstition is stupid." I think this not only can help us understand more of other culture's contents in a religious approach, but also our own abundant resources of folk tradition. PS. Everybody is going to prepare a little present for our next meeting. Search on the internet, or go find a book, you will learn a magic trick and show us how you do it next Thur. Of course, if you had mysterious power that most of us don't own, welcome and elaborate it! Don't be shy!

(5/21)

今天討論的主題呢與人生目標有關，我們列出了許多令人嚮往的事物，例如成就感、社交技巧、智慧、多元嗜好等等。每一項都令人難以取捨，但是如果只能達成其中三件，你會選擇財富、還是愛情，又假如用壽命來交換，你願意嗎？也許這個問題能幫助你找出你生命中最重要的核心價值。最後做了一個憂鬱指數測驗，美國人果然是樂天派；台灣學生真命苦！

The very concept of our discussion today is about "Qualities of life." We listed several items that are considered indispensable to a person's life, imagine when you become old, what is left? We vote what is most important and mostly voted was wisdom. On the other hand Beauty is not appreciated at all. Then we depicted a bet with the devil which exchange one's 5 year life-span with those items: money, beauty. And we talked about insomnia, which led to an interesting worry index. Find out if you worry too much.