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【科學新知】情境範文：現代通訊

        1These days, email, which is short for electronic mail, is a huge part of our everyday lives. 2But it may surprise you to know that the history of email goes back a lot further than the great Internet boom of the early to mid nineties. 3Electronic mail actually predates the Internet itself, and in part inspired how the Internet was created.

        4People first began to send electronic mail way back in 1965. 5Back then, email systems required that multiple users log in to the same host computer at the same time. 6Only then could they send information back and forth. 7This system has certainly come a long way since those early days.

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【歷史與考古人類學】情境範文：聘金(dowry)的習俗

    1Ever since the suffrage movement of the early 20th century, women around the world have striven to gain equal footing with men. 2By and large, they have succeeded in many areas, challenging the traditional role of a woman as a homemaker, and seeing their salaries rise to be almost on par with those of their male counterparts. 3But practices that some see as being archaic relics, such as paying a bride price, still exist. 4According to this custom, the groom must give a certain amount of money or property to the parents of the bride in order to be granted permission to marry her. 5Though this practice has its supporters, some women’s rights groups contend that it reduces women to the level of mere property to be bought and sold. (130)

這篇文章是之前本來要刊登在聯合報上的專欄，不過之後又先暫停這個計畫了。

快到指考了，寫作總是一個很難的部份，尤其動詞是大家最容易犯的錯誤。

參考看看囉。

 TOEIC Bridge 在考試的內容複雜性及深度上都較TOEIC 來的要淺易的多，所以非常適合初學或是中等程度的英文學習者來檢視自己學習英文的成果。然而考試的結果與學習的目標是環環相扣的，換句話說，透過準備TOEIC Bridge 的過程來嘗試在TOEIC Bridge中得到高分，正是增進自己英文能力的好方法之ㄧ。

    雖然TOEIC Bridge的考試題目只包含了「聽力」與「閱讀」兩部份，但是英文學習本來就包括了「聽」、「說」、「讀」、和「寫」四種能力。因此要增進英文能力不可能只片面地強調「聽力」與「閱讀」的能力，必須全面性地從四種能力提升來下手。

六月七日這一天我在聯合報上得知，美國總統歐巴馬到了密西根州的卡拉馬助夫高中，對畢業生進行樂一場畢業典禮的演講。

他給了學生三個忠告，我覺得很適合在上課跟同學們分享，尤其我的學生也是高中生。

這篇演講稿的內容兼具歐巴馬慣有的風趣幽默，以及沒那麼八股。

雖然這類的演講基本上都是勸人立志行善，但聽著總統先生娓娓道來，卻也覺得很有道理呢。

House MD

Episode 1, Season 3                “Meaning”                                Date: 5/6

Synopsis:

A paralyzed husband and father living with brain cancer, drives his wheelchair into a pool at a family BBQ. Everyone, but his son, thinks that it was suicide from the pain, but Dr. House will stop at nothing to figure out his true ailment. At the same time, House and staff deal with another baffling paralysis case involving a young woman who, although paralyzed below the neck, can still feel pain and touch.

Three’s Company

Episode 4, Season 2                                         Date: 3/11

Synopsis:

A conflict over lack of privacy comes to a head after Janet brings home a boyfriend, and roommates Jack and Chrissy have to cool their heels at the Regle Beagle pub. Jack goes to the pub where the trio's landlord, Stanley Roper and his wife also are spending the evening, and makes a date with a beautiful girl, Veronica. Janet is furious when Jack and Chrissy choose an inopportune moment to barge into the apartment where she is entertaining her date, Alex. Later, Jack gets Janet and Chrissy to agree to an "unbreakable rule" on taking turns using the apartment privately. Jack soon regrets this rule when Veronica calls to change their date night.

期待已久的課程終於要開始了，我也就把交付給學生的資料準備好了。

我讓學生先看一次帶有中文字幕的影集，然後發下資料，再讓他們看一次帶有英文字幕的影集，最後就是要完成他們的回家作業囉。

Three’s Company

Episode 6, Season 1                                                       Date: 3/4

這學期高一跨班選修我開了"看影集學英文"的課程。光聽標題就很有趣，但準備起來也是要煞費一 番功夫。

首先買了坊間的一些書來參考，想要知道課程該如何設計。接下來就是要設計整學期的課程囉。

為了不讓同學覺得課程無聊，我除了介紹一些自己喜歡的影集之外，也讓他們來分組介紹一些學生喜歡看的影集。(畢竟差了10歲嘛!?)

"前陣子新聞一直在報導馬總統的翻譯官，說他從來沒出過國唸書，然而一口流利的英文就是從"看影集"學來的呢。"

Here's your report format. There are three pages for your book report.

You'll have to hand in your assignment by this Wednesday.

Page 1.

  Introduction

前些日子南一的課本上到了Robert Frost 的英詩:The Road Not Taken

(By the way,還挺佩服南一的選課，在第三冊的第十一課選了"羅斯福"總統的演講稿"The Four Freedoms"，這一課雖然不簡單，卻是很棒的一課，有許多地方老師可以自行發揮。)

雖然已經教過好幾次這首詩，但是總是不願意保守地把詩以中翻英的方式教過一次，就叫做OK了，所以這一次就利用上次在一息所聽到的老師分享，再加上自己的一些想法，來完成這一課的教學。

很多老師在批改學生的英文寫作文章時，常會發現裡一個句子裡總是有很多動詞。今天我就來寫一篇關於"文章裡的動詞"該怎麼變化的專題吧。

我們先來看學生的原文，再看一些指示，最後再來看修改後的文章，希望會對大家有幫助。

學生文章

Baby Elephant

最近在上的課程跟"減肥"有關，所以就跟同學做了以下的補充課程。想要練習聽力的同學可以多聽幾遍在回答以下的問題。

(adapted from http://www.wikihow.com/Lose-Weight-Fast)

 Coach Kendra’s 10 Tips for Eating Out

主演"熱舞十七"和"第六感生死戀"的男主角Patrick Swayze，在周一因為胰臟癌過世。以下的影音資料擷取於"Associated Press"對他的報導，這段資料可以用來做聽力及閱讀理解的課堂教學。

如果聽不太懂裡面的報導，可以參考下面這篇來自China Post的新聞，內容大致與上面的記者報導相同，讀完文稿之後再聽一次，應該可以了解許多內容。

Publicist: Patrick Swayze dies at 57

從這學期開始，我會陸續PO上政大陳超明教授之前在聯合報刊登之"一生必學的英文文法"專欄。

希望同學能藉由這個專欄增加一些寫作的基本概念。

(因為是圖片檔，同學如果覺得字太小，可以把游標放在圖片上，就會顯現更大的字體喔。)

紐伯瑞獎

設立於1922年，每年頒發一次。

美國紐伯瑞獎創設於1922年，是由美國圖書館學會的分支機構美國圖書館兒童服務學會，是為紀念十八世紀的英國書商，約翰‧紐伯瑞而設置。

紐伯瑞獎歷史悠久，對世界的兒童文學都有極大的影響。