Do you want to communicate with English speakers fluently? Welcome to our course. The course consists of 6 units with different topics: feelings, staying healthy, learning, university, cultural differences, and cities. From this course, you will have a good knowledge of primary English reading and writing skills in your daily life. We invite you to learn with our teachers and friends from different countries in the videos, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and Columbia. Are you ready? Let’s go!
This course is part of the Learn English Specialization
Just Reading and Writing English 1
Offered By
Learners taking this Course are
- Marketers
- Product Managers
- Data Scientists
- Teachers
- Software Engineers
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
12 hours to complete
Feelings
How do you feel today?
9 videos (Total 66 min), 6 quizzes
9 videos
2. Text: Sharing Your Feelings6m
3. Explore and Discuss Feelings and Emotions9m
4. Letting off Steam7m
5. Emotion Management10m
6. Cultural Focus: Students' Stress3m
7. Office Hour11m
8. Talk Show (Glenn and Conor)14m
9. Summary1m
6 practice exercises
Test 1-33m
Test 1-45m
Test 1-58m
Test 1-64m
Test 1-73m
Test 1-105m
Week
21 hour to complete
Staying Healthy
How to keep healthy?
8 videos (Total 52 min), 5 quizzes
8 videos
2. Text: Keep Healthy8m
3. Talking about One's Health5m
4. A Healthy Lifestyle8m
5. How to Stay Healthy11m
6. Cultural Focus: Ways of Keeping Healthy5m
7. Office Hour10m
8. Summary1m
5 practice exercises
Test 2-35m
Test 2-45m
Test 2-57m
Test 2-63m
Test 2-95m
Week
32 hours to complete
Learning
How to be a learning master?
11 videos (Total 84 min), 5 quizzes
11 videos
2.Text A：Successful English Learner5m
3.Key Words12m
4.Sentences6m
5.Text B：Our Crazy Language12m
6.Reading Skills6m
7.Cultural Focus9m
8.Writing Doctor14m
9.Study Guide6m
10.Literature Tutor6m
11.Summary1m
5 practice exercises
Test 3-23m
Test 3-55m
Test 3-72m
Test 3-93m
Test 3-103m
Week
42 hours to complete
University
How to describe university life?
12 videos (Total 95 min), 6 quizzes
12 videos
2.Text A：Cambridge– the University Town6m
3.Key Words12m
4.Sentences4m
5.Text B：Oxford9m
6.Reading Skills5m
7.Cultural Focus 113m
7.Cultural Focus 212m
8.Writing Doctor10m
9.Study Guide9m
10.Literature Tutor5m
11.Summary1m
6 practice exercises
Test 4-23m
Test 4-54m
Test 4-7-13m
Test 4-7-23m
Test 4-93m
Test 4-103m
Instructors
Fang Yang
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Wenxia Zhang
ProfessorDepartment of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University
About Tsinghua University
Free online courses from Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University, founded in 1911, is one of the most prestigious universities in Asia. Tsinghua University consists of 19 schools and 55 departments with faculties in science, engineering, humanities, social sciences, architecture, management, law, medicine, arts and design. As China’s leading institution of advanced learning, Tsinghua is dedicated to excellence in education, research, and social services. Tsinghua has approximately 3,200 faculty members and over 35,000 students, including 3,500 international students from 108 countries. Among its 170,000 alumni are many outstanding scholars, successful entrepreneurs, and distinguished statesmen who have been playing important roles in the development of China.
About the Learn English Specialization
This specialization is intended for English as a Second Language Learners (elementary, intermediate, and advanced). No prior knowledge is required for these courses. Through 4 courses, Conversational English skills, Just Reading and Writing English 1, Just Reading and Writing English 2, and General Academic English, you will cover the following interesting topics in each course:
1.Meeting new people, the people in your life, eating in and eating out, the reason to learn English, good times and bad times, and hobbies in course 1 will prepare you to have a good knowledge of conversational English skills in your daily life to improve your ability to communicate better in English in a wide range of daily situations and become more fluent and confident in using the language.
2.Feelings, staying healthy, learning, university, cultural differences, and cities in course 2 will prepare you to have a good knowledge of primary English reading and writing skills.
3.Education, manners, personal communication, purpose of living, cultural studies, life science in course 3 will prepare you to have a good knowledge of intermediate English reading and writing skills.
4.Art, man and nature, social issues, engineering and technology, psychology, economics and management in course 4 will prepare you to have a good knowledge of general academic English learning skills for your academic career, covering all aspects of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Frequently Asked Questions
When will I have access to the lectures and assignments?
Once you enroll for a Certificate, you’ll have access to all videos, quizzes, and programming assignments (if applicable). Peer review assignments can only be submitted and reviewed once your session has begun. If you choose to explore the course without purchasing, you may not be able to access certain assignments.
What will I get if I subscribe to this Specialization?
When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free.
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