到了，很伤。没网，没手机。

眼看着蚊子就是打不着，拍不死。。。

太意外了。Melinda发来了一封很长很长的信，费劲巴拉看完了，大概意思就是来了之后的一个月培训期间，要从语言学、教育学、社会学三个方面进行高强度锻炼，要求只说英语，了解美国本科生的状态，了解美国的文化。然后还留了些作业，让在学校网站找一些资料。这时我才发现自己好像很久没有为别人负责，兢兢业业工作的感觉了，散了太长时间啦。。。就先从这些作业开始吧:

 

Assignment #1, Part 1
Using the College pages of the University website, find all the information you can find about the following topics. We will be using this information in class, so you may want to download and print out pages for reference. Look up and learn any vocabulary that is unfamiliar to you.

Admission Process and Requirements
Curriculum and Distribution Requirements
Electives
Course Load and Grading
Declaration of a Major Field of Study
Graduation Requirements
Extra-curricular Activities and Student Life
Student Government
Student Demographics
Residence Halls and Dining Halls
Residential Requirement
Honors
Thesis
Academic Calendar
Reading Period
Student Services
Student Health
Student Counseling
Advising
Any other topics of special interest to you

Assignment #1, Part 2
Check the University Policies pages for the following topics, download and print the pages. You should bring these with you to class:

Sexual Harassment
Anti-Discrimination
Intellectual Property
Plagiarism

 

Assignment #1, Part 3

Using books and notes from your years of English study, as well as the best English dictionary you can find, (English only is best, but if your skills are not advanced enough to use a regular English dictionary, use a translation dictionary) review the following grammar topics:

Use of: articles, prepositions, pronouns, regular and irregular verbs throughout the tenses, auxiliary verbs, modal auxiliary verbs, verb tenses, subjunctive mood, punctuation

Sentence construction: agreement, dependent and independent clauses, if/then constructions, either/or and neither/nor constructions

All usage of the verbs to be, to have, to do, to make, to go.

Review the following language vocabulary. It will be used extensively throughout the course:

subject, predicate, object

noun, pronoun, plural

verb, auxiliary verb, linking verb, helping verb, conjugation, infinitive
agreement
idiom, idiomatic use, cognate, false cognate
register
article
countable and non-countable nouns
proper nouns
mood: indicative, interrogative, imperative, subjunctive
tense: simple present, present continuous, present perfect, simple past, past participle, past perfect, simple future, future perfect
intonation, contraction, abbreviation, linking, thought group, stress, accent
punctuation: period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, colon,
semi-colon, quotation mark, hyphen, dash

You should be able to express basic scientific theories and laws
pertinent to your field of study verbally and in English; chemists
should learn the Periodic Table in English.