Lesson 1 – Half a Day
A Short Story
Plot: a little boy’s first time to go to school
Setting:at school
on the way home Protagonist/Narrator: “I” –the boy in the story
To help students transfer from secondary level EFL learning to tertiary level To help students become conscious of the discrepancy between language knowledge and language use
Contemporary College English
Intensive Reading I
What is Intensive Reading?
Intensive reading is comprehensive but not all embracing Intensive reading is training of all basic language skills
To help students appreciate language from the stylistic perspective
Objectives for First-year Intensive Reading
At a micro level
To help enlarge students’ vocabulary
Depicts realistically the social and political life in Egypt
His classical and lucid style rejuvenated literary Arabic without recourse to colloquialisms "a Dickens of the Cairo café s" and "the Balzac of Egypt".
Warm Up
First day of school …
In 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Geraldine Counts and three other students became the first African American students to attend the previously all white Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Naguib Mahfouz
Born in 1911, educated at Cairo University, died in Aug. 31, 2006. Wrote short stories and historical novels before WWII Turned to write novels of social realism after WWII Later works combined realism & symbolism A prolific writer: no fewer than 30 novels, more than 100 short stories, and more than 200 articles.
Students are expected to learn about 2,000 new words in the first year - collocations, phrases, verb patterns, word-formation, synonyms, acronyms, etc.
A Poem
If you come to Kindy you are sure to find inside, Happy smiles from children that continually shine! —Julie Mc Millan
Love Your Life
Warm up
First day of school …
The first Arab Writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature – 1988, The Cairo Trilogy (1957)
Palace Walk 《宫间街》 Palace of Desire 《思宫街》 Sugar Street 《甘露街》
Warm Up
First day of school …
Warm-up
Was it hard for you to leave home for the first time in your life? Who saw you off at the railway station? Who came to school with you? What did he/she day to you? How did you feel the first day your arrived at university? Did you feel like a stranger? Did you find the university just as you had imagined? In what way was it different? Do you find life at college rich and colorful or tedious and boring? Do you have trouble adjusting to life here? What are your expectations of university? What kind of changes do you think it will bring upon your life?
A Poem
I’m led to a table that is covered with shapes, A young girl my age says Hi I am Grace, I am three, but soon will be four. I am a big girl and not afraid any more.
thorough, systematic, sustained, all-around training listening, reading, speaking, writing, translating skills
Intensive reading training develops through different stages, each stage with its own emphasis Intensive reading is not evaluated by the course alone; its assessment has to be done in relation to the overall development of all the basic skills in all the courses
Objectives of First-year Intensive Reading
To introduce students to some new language phenomena
To help students become aware of socio-cultural issues in the learning of language
from Prof. Yang Limin’s Speech
Objectives of First-year Intensive Reading
At a macro level
organization of learning in terms of materials, requirements, class performance, assessment, teacher’s role, and their own role – how these elements could be different now
Half a Day
Naguib Mahfouz
A Poem
First Day at School
It’s hard to explain, the way I feel; A place unknown but is so real! A soft voice welcomes me to the place, I look up to see a lady’s smiling face.

To help students both clarify and consolidate grammar knowledge, particularly in terms of use To help students further develop basic reading skills To help students learn to retell and summarize To help students realize the importance of critical thinking in language learning
A Poem
I forever trying new things and learning everyday. And the best thing is I having fun while I play!
A Poem
Days go on and I encounter many new experiences and friends, I feel like I’m on a roller coaster, which never seems to end.