Newsletter Issue NO.1 Winter 2014

2014 FLLD

Drama Performance Every year, senior students from FLLD would present the Annual Drama Performance free of charge to everyone in National Chung Cheng University. It is one of the most eye-catching and endeavoring student activities in our department and on campus. By giving English drama performance, we can demonstrate our English proficiency, literature knowledge as well as project planning ability. Come join us and give us feedback. We need your attention and support to sustain this tradition. Your feedback also helps us improve ourselves.

The Matchmaker Adapted from Thornton Wilder's comedy, The Matchmaker is about Dolly Levi, who works to keep young lovers together. Dolly always solves all kinds of relationship problems, but this time it’s a little complicated... On one hand, Dolly needs to find a suitable wife for a bossy store owner, Horace Vandergelder. On the other hand, she has to convince Horace to let his niece marry the poor artist she loves. During the adventure, she finds that Horace's chief clerk falls in love with Irene Molloy, who Horace intends to marry... What should she do? Come to our drama to find out what happens. Is there going to be a happy ending for everyone?

. Poster Designed by SzuYun Chang .

中正大學外文系104級畢業公演 The Matchmaker 1st Play (December 18th) : 18:30 enter 19:00 start 2nd Play (December 20th) : 12:30 enter 13:00 start

Issue NO.1 · Winter 2014

Instructor TehSuan Liu Having graduated from an Applied Linguistics program, Dr. Liu has experience in drama acting from college. This is the first time he is serving as an instructor to oversee the team for the annual drama performance.  What is your role on the Annual Drama Performance team? My job is to make sure that all who participated can complete their tasks on time. I assist the leaders with executive works, and oversee the whole team. Up to now, all workers have been very diligent and responsible, since they all take the drama performance very seriously.  What is your expectation? They will experience all kinds of adventure in life, just like the characters in the drama. From the drama, students can use their imagination to set up the stage and learn to make the audience enjoy the drama. Students can also develop their aesthetic sense. I’m quite surprised at the students’ performance, since some of them are quite shy in class.  

  Overall, the annual performance is an adventurous journey which helps students explore their talents. Not only can the performers find what they want, but hopely the audience can learn some lessons after watching this drama. 

Interview Learn about the devotion

behind the curtain

the Matchmaker’s Instructor/ Director /

Coordinator

Director Tracy Wang Tracy was the leader of World Folk Dance Society club. And because of her artistic quality, she was elected as the director. Recently, she attended the Directing Course to enhance her ability.

What have you learned from this position? Through intense trainings and rehearsals, I got to know my classmates better. My view of them changed even more when they performed on stage. I also wondered if they felt the same way to me. 

  In fact, I was not good at expressing my opinions, yet as a director, I must talk often. This helps train my communication ability. In addition, it’s also important to discuss with different performers in specific ways, which also requires control of my temper. 

Why and how did you decide on the script? In order to make the play easy enough for the audience to understand, we changed the background to 1980s, a century later than the original version. As a result, the costumes, music, and everything else were altered based on the style back then. .    To accentuate the major plots, we spared the peripherals , due to the budget and time limit: scenes that the audience may not resonate with or those that are not humorous  are skipped as well. The ending was a long monologue, which may sound like preaching to people. We divided it into several parts for different actors to deliver.  What is your expectation? Each performer has his/her own unique style. When performers rehearse, it’s important that they build their charisma on stage. 

  Through the subtle combination of scenes and sound effects, emotions of performers will tug everyone’s heartstrings—my ultimate goal for our performance.  Has there been any difficulty? As a greenhorn in directing, I lacked confidence and doubted my capability for the job. Fortunately, I received help and encouragement from the alumni, such as the former director Family Fan. 

 Generally, workers would respect me and performers would follow my lead. They all devote themselves to the preparation. Besides, I‘d take the performers’ advice about acting as long as they can convince me. After all, I believe they know more about the roles than anyone else. 

   I am very impressed by how performers connect the roles to themselves and try to present the most genuine characters to the audience. I can’t wait to see their performance on the stage. 

Issue NO.1 · Winter 2014

 Coordinator Eva Chiu Eva was the vice president of FLLD Student Association. She also led the freshmen camp during her sophomore year. Now she is challenging herself to lead the annual performance.   

What is your responsibility in this project? My job is to plan, organize, and execute the tasks precisely. Our teamwork is divided into many groups, and my job is to cooperate them and make sure everything is on the track. If the groups encounter problems, I have to help them solve the problems.   Has there been any challenge? Actually, the problem we faced was a serious budget shortage. Yet, our crew found several alternative means to increase the resources and decrease expenses. 

  We received aid from Dean of College and department office. PR also received funds from some companies, which was really helpful for us. Members even donated their tissue paper so that we don’t have to spend money on them.  What have you learned from it? As a coordinator, I must lead the team with confidence and power for them to follow my lead. However, workers are my classmates, so I view them as my partners, not followers. It’s important to strike a balance. 

  Other than that, our team contains 114 members, more than any other activities I’ve ever led. It’s a challenge for me to lead them. 

What is your expectation? Of course we desire a flawless show with a perfect ending. We also hope that the audience can fully engage in the drama, to find some similarities between the perfor­ mance and the reality. Hopefully, they will think about the story and reflect on their lives. Furthermore, we will make an annual report and hand over our jobs to the juniors. They will be on track quickly. 

  Afterwards, what I want nothing more than going to a basketball game, because it inspires me to go on another adventure! 

Design-Concept Learn about

the secret behind the poster

  Find this poster familiar? Does the lady reminds you of Mary Poppins or Marilyn Monroe. Let’s see what the main idea of the poster is! 

  Art Director SzuYun Chang “I was inspired from the 80s’. The retro but lively color creates a comedic atmosphere of our show. The lady wearing a cloche in the poster, Levi, resembles Marilyn Monroe or Mary Poppins.”

Reminder 2014 中正外文畢業公演

《真愛送作堆》 《The Matchmaker》

Auditorium, Activity Center, CCU

December 18th, 2014

18:30 enter 19:00 start December 20th, 2014

12:30 enter 13:00 start

See You There

▲The performers are warming up.

中正大學外文系 104級畢業公演 The Matchmaker

By Sunflower Liu劉子聿, Harry Chen陳昭廷, Sindy Hu胡雅昕, Tony Chang張藝騰

Issue NO.1 · Winter 2014

WINTER CAMP

Unlike other activities held by English majors, the

winter camp is designed for high school students who

have interests in English. Since 2005, it has become a

tradition. Winter camp connects freshmen and

sophomores when preparing for it with all efforts and

intensive practice within 3 months.

To make the camp more attractive, in 2013, the

camp set a theme of classic fairy tale: a romantic love

story and a wizard’s curse. With this storyline, the

participants helped the Prince Charming and Snow

White to recall their memories and break the curse step

by step. With the help of all the famous characters from

the fairy tales, high school students fulfilled their

missions and reform the fairy town.

Then, the 9th winter camp in 2014 was based on

the movie Monsters University, a story about how

immature monsters become successful. High school

students played as inexperienced monsters, and the

undertakers were the monster trainers. Throughout the

camp, the students were trained to become qualified

“scarers”. That is, they proved themselves to be more

mature with perseverance and courage.

2013 winter camp made a breakthrough in

eco-friendly utensils usage. It also made great financial

contributions for the following events in the department.

Besides, to apply creativity to the camp, there are some

new elements continuously being infused to the camps

in different ways. In 2014, in order to encourage the

participating high school students to discuss actively,

high school students were divided into small classes

when taking lessons. TEAL (Technology Enabled

Active Learning) classroom also offered the students

an opportunity to interact with one another. What was

more, after the courses, role playing games were held

to evaluate their learning outcome.

The camp aims to equip the team with the abilities

of marketing, problem-solving, potential-exploring,

organizing, negotiating, financial managing, and

team-working, supported with creativity and leadership.

It is a chance for staff to challenge themselves and get

a sense of achievement.

People say, “Camping experience is a must in the university.” The upcoming winter camp, called F.T.

Island (Foreign Teenagers Island), is taking place in 2015! This time, high school students will bravely

fight back against terrifying beasts and then become successful explorers. An innovative idea

highlights this year’s curriculum: outdoor class instead of traditional classrooms. PLEASE FOLLOW

US on Facebook Fan Page!

WINTER CAMP @ FLLD

2015 國立中正大學第十屆外文營 FT Island

Islandhttps://www.facebook.com/flldcamp2015?f

By Amy Lin 林瑜芳, Howard Lin 林志鴻, Julia Nee 倪子芸, Kiki Chang 張堉祺

Winnie Huang 黃映云

Determination At first, Winnie learned about partner universities from

CCU’s Office of International Affairs’ website. "Studying abroad is one of my dreams since I was little," she made up her mind to give it a try. She took four semesters of German courses, "I feel super lucky that the only European sister university we can study is in Germany." With this opportunity, she would allow herself to completely immerse in a German environment.

Culture Shock Rumor has it that Europeans are indifferent. However,

Winnie recalled the time when she first moved to her dormitory, "they asked whether I need a hand. Then they helped me carry the luggage to the room. They are not cold and indifferent to people as we imagined." When speaking of the new lifestyle, Winnie said it was surprising that she adapted herself to Germany pretty well- except she really missed the convenience stores in Taiwan.

Maturity One afternoon, Winnie accidently lost her wallet. She felt

extremely nervous at first, so she rushed to the immigration office to re-apply for a personal identification document. In the process of dealing with the trouble, she had to communicate with the staff who did not speak English. The emergency was a critical reality check to improve her German.

Suggestions

Sandy Lin 林家寧

Determination Since Sandy was a senior high school student, she has been deeply obsessed with Korean culture. In 2012, she had already traveled to Korea. After coming back to Taiwan, she started to learn Korean until now. Also, she kept following the information about partner universities, "the reason why I chose Sungkyunwan University (成均館大學) was because it is closer to Seoul." Undoubtedly, she selected this country to improve her language abilities and explore more about Korea.

Culture Shock Sandy thought that she was already familiar with Korean culture, yet she was still not used to their lifestyle at first. She spoke of what she could not bear the most, "In Taiwan, there are a lot of people smoking. But in Korea, the average age of smokers is younger." Since Sungkyunkwan University is the fifth top colleges in Korea, Sandy was quite shocked.

Maturity Sandy meets a lot of people and exchanges experience with

them, "In our dormitory, I can always bump into many Europeans and other international students and have more chances to speak English." Besides, She takes Korean courses everyday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Her language abilities have improved a lot during her exchange life.

(左上)Winnie was in Heidelberg(海德堡)

(右上)Sandy was at

Hangang Bridge(漢江)

(左下)Sandy was in

Nami Island(南怡島)

(右下)Winnie was in

Jena(耶拿)

By Yu-Chi Wang, Tim Liu, Eric Liu

王鈺淇 劉奕廷 劉育辰

I took the one less traveled by

and that has made all the difference.

--Robert Frost

Exchange ●○● Experience Change

Love the fear. You are here to grow up and to learn. You will see so many interesting things once you try. Prepare all the paperworks, and give it a try. You will change.

Don't hesitate to experience a different life and find something new about yourself... you will realize there is no a better place than your hometown.

電子報發行單位／國立中正大學外國語文學系學生會

指導教授／林惠玲 系主任 陳玟君 副教授

執行編輯／呂佳蓁 蔡依婷 黃珉薇 陳昭廷

編輯團隊／胡雅盺 王鈺淇 張堉祺 劉子聿

林志鴻 劉奕廷 林瑜芳 王 鈺

唐孟沅 李孟軒 周怡宣 李怡蓁

張弘儒 倪子芸 劉育辰 潘曉音

林庭瑄 張藝騰

嘉義 - Dec 06

新竹– Dec 06

高雄 - Dec 06 / Dec 13 / Jan 10 / Jan 11

Jan 25 / Jan 31 / Feb 01 / Feb 14

Mar 07 / Mar 28

台中 - Jan 31 / Feb 01 / Feb 14 / Mar 07

Mar 28

台南 - Dec 06 / Dec 13 / Jan 10 / Jan 11

Jan 25 / Jan 31 / Feb 01 / Feb 14

Mar 07 / Mar 28

台北 - Dec 06 / Jan 31 / Feb 01 / Feb 14

Mar 07

Mar 28

桃園 - Dec 06

(詳情請上 TOFEL 官網查詢)

托福網考 TOFEL iBT 考試資訊

2014 Dec - 2015 Mar

GEPT 104 年考試日期

中級 - 聽讀 01/18 04/11 08/15

說寫 04/25-26 11/28-29

一日考 05/09

中高級 - 聽讀 04/11 10/24

說寫 06/27 12/26

一日考 04/11 10/24

高級 - 聽讀 09/05

說寫 12/12

(詳情請上 GEPT 官網查詢)

Good Old Times

首次與傳播系合作，為期六週的英語廣播節

目，從 11/19 開跑囉！快跟著主持人們一起回

到 90 年代，如果喜歡他們的節目，就動動手

指按個讚吧！