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Presentation topics
Week 2 (1-4)
1. Introduce Walt Disney or one of their cartoons.
2. Find an English weather forecast and report to the class.
3. Introduce the Chinese lunar calendar.
Week 3 Holiday
Week 4 (5-8)
4. Tell a Greek or Roman myth to the class.
5. Why do people dream?
6. Give several cases of the corrupted government officials in China.
7. Show us some car advertisements and find the most frequently used selling strategies.
Week 5 (9-12)
8. Tell us a legal case concerning will (遗嘱) and analyze why will is important.
9. Why is calcium to important?
10. Introduce your favorite music or music star and the reason why you like it/him/her.
11. Introduce the history of hunting game of British aristocrats.
Week 6 (13-16)
12. Introduce the air crash and analyze the reasons.
13. Interview at least five boys and five girls about their view of high-heel shoes.
14. What do students do on internet? Make an investigation and report to the class.
Week 7 (17-20)
15. Introduce an ethnic minority group in China or in other countries.
16. What animals migrate and why?
17. Is it useful for parents to talk to babies?
Week 8 (21-24)
18. How to solve the housing problem in big cities in China, like Beijing?
19. What do university students think of their professors? Interview at least 10 students and report your results to the class.
20. Introduce the railroad transport in China.
Week 9 (25-28)
21. Can people’s dreams tell something about their future?
22. Give some instructional tips of doing sth, for example, cooking a certain dish, planting a certain kind of flower, or keeping a certain kind of animal.
23. Introduce the situation of hepatitis B disease in China, and the ways to prevent or manage it.
24. Introduce a tourist town for people who plan to go there.
Week 10 Mid-term test
Week 11 (29-32)
25. Introduce a famous work of art, for example, a statue, a painting, a piece of music or dance.
26. Introduce the development of telephone use in China.
27. Why are the shortsighted glasses so expensive now in our country?
Week 12 (33-36)
28. Find the information of several very old people (above 80 or 90). How is (was) their life?
29. Report the life of Nongmingong group in China.
30. Is there any environment-friendly toilets?
Week 13 (37-40)
31. Why do governments sell public lands?
32. Compare the western-style fast food and Chinese-style fast food.
33. Introduce the design of Beijing.