SchoolLifeintheUS校园生活.ppt

US Campus Life;Movie: Legally Blonde;Try to understand:;Movies (2) ;Project Questions (1);Project Questions (2);About team presentation;Start your online discussions now!;;Routes to Higher Education;Where?;Four categories of higher education institutions;The curriculum;Public or private?;Private or Public;Big or small;Other Factors;Enrollment;College Entrance Examination;Anxious Parents;The success of US college application depends on:;meet with admissions personnel take guided tours of the campus visit classes and various extracurricular activities get an idea of the style of life and learning;Harvard College Admissions Committee;Applying for Yale; ;Here is my cousin’s recruitment experience in Cambridge: In the beginning, you would be led to the library to read some reference materials. Later it would be an exam based on the materials you’ve read before. ;After lunch there would be the interviews. One is to exam your general ideas in your major. Another is based on the paper you did in the morning. For the correct answers, they would ask you how you solved them. For the incorrect answers, you would be given some implication to help you find where you make a mistake.;300名上海学生2006年将经面试直升复旦(Independent Admissions);Commentators challenged questions at Fudan interviews;北大到底是谁的北大？ （童大焕，2004）;《新京报》2006年3月11日;《东方早报》2009年4月15日;Orientation, Fudan Style;Orientation: the US Style;The American way --Princeton as an example;US Freshman’s Most Common Fears About College;Coming to America ---YiLu Zhao’s Story;A New Tool for Orientation;Ways of Teaching;Teaching Learning;Study group: a concept you’re not used to;Three monks, no water or water sooner?;Why the difference?;“They (Chinese students) lack spontaneity, I think from the way they were taught in their native countries, and therefore have trouble speaking in class unless they are called on by the teacher. Free writing and some pair and small-group exercises are harder for t