This course is part of the Learn English Specialization

Fang Yang +1 more instructor

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Learn English SpecializationTsinghua University

About this Course

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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!

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Course 2 of 4 in the

Learn English Specialization

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Intermediate Level

Approx. 11 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

Instructors

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Fang Yang

Associate Professor

Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures

52,622 Learners

4 Courses

Wenxia Zhang

Professor

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University

52,622 Learners

4 Courses

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Course 2 of 4 in the

Learn English Specialization

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Intermediate Level

Approx. 11 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

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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.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Feelings

How do you feel today?

2 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 66 min)

9 videos

1. Introduction1m

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

Week 2

1 hour to complete

Staying Healthy

How to keep healthy?

1 hour to complete

8 videos (Total 52 min)

8 videos

1. Introduction1m

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

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Learning

How to be a learning master?

2 hours to complete

11 videos (Total 84 min)

11 videos

1.Introduction1m

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

Week 4

2 hours to complete

University

How to describe university life?

2 hours to complete

12 videos (Total 95 min)

12 videos

1.Introduction1m

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

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.

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