UG Talent Cultivation & English Learning Teaching

  • Hubs & Thrusts : 枢纽、学域
  • CFT ：未来技术学院

22 Master Programs :

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UG Interdisciplinary Cultivation Mechanism :

How to graduate

  1. 120 Credits (About 40 Courses) + MOE Required Courses
  2. Common Core Program
  3. Language Requirement
  4. Hub Requirement
  5. MoE

English Leaning

Native speakers dare to create new words :

  • The movie is Oscarable
  • We need ouchless toilet paper
  • Me-time, me-too movement.
  • Two-timing boyfriend
  • Breadcrumbing : 撒面包屑式撩骚 → 吊着你、养鱼、给点希望但绝不兑现承诺
  • Couch-surfing-Can I couch-surf with me for a day or two
  • Ghosting : 拉黑
  • FOMO - Fear of Missing Out
  • Gender-fluid
  • High-maintenance girl
  • Gangster-chic-glamorizes the underworld
  • Shabby chic

Think out of the box

Bottleneck for Chinese learners

Wrong method - rote learning

English is not a single word language

  • Tip of the iceberg
  • On the take : Corrupt
  • Last straw
  • I am over the moon
  • He is over the hill ： 风光不再
  • Cut to the chase ： 直奔主题
  • I am all ears ： 洗耳恭听
  • She is good behind the wheel : a good driver
  • under the hood : 了解背后原理

Context-dependent :

  • Has the dog done its business? 大小便
  • He is history
  • The accountant cooked the books : 做假账
  • What is eating you? – Why you look so upset

Function words v. Content words

  • Contract with you & Contract on you : 与你签订合同 / 给你定悬赏
  • He is French to his fingertips
  • Is hkust-gz to your liking ?
  • He lost his mother to cancer.
  • He left the stage to loud booing or cheers

ON:

  • I bet you 10$ that she is singel. You are on.
  • Lunch is on me.
  • Drinks are on the house. (Free for drinks)

At:

  • She lost me at hello.

  • Cut classes

  • Your excuses cut no ice with me

  • A catch-22 sitation ：进退两难、矛盾死循环

Rhetorical skills :

Alliteration:

  • Britain is broken after Brexit
  • The devil is in the detail
  • We are friends through thick and thin.
  • If I rest, I rust.

Rhyme :

  • The debate about nature-nurture
  • Attitude determines altitude
  • Pump and dump stocks
  • Funny money (Fake)
  • All that glitters is not gold
  • Brain drain
  • Man proposes, but God disposes

Contrast :

  • A nation that forgets its past has no future
  • He is the new face of the old problem
  • I need some tea and sympathy
  • Penny wise, pound foolish
  • Old wine in new bottle
  • Suicide is the permanent solution to a temporary problem

Definition:

  • Biology is destiny
  • Wedlock is padlock
  • Religion is the opium of the masses
  • Life is not a check-lis

Echo :

  • If you see something, say something
  • What happens here, stay here
  • Let June be the end of May

Personification:

  • He let his racquet do the talking
  • No poem ever stopped a tank
  • Fickle fortune
  • The unforgiving desert
  • Her clothes whisper her wealth
  • The marriage staggered on for three years.

What is thinking in English?

  • English loves exaggeration – He is lying through his teeth.
  • He is fighting tooth and nail
  • He is up to his eyebrow in debt

English loves Incongruity

  • How do you square that circle ? (=How do you solve this impossible problem)
  • I will step down five years after I die
  • Failing upwards
  • The past is prologue
  • Passive-aggressive
  • Busy is a humblebrag
  • Organized chaos
  • The tail wags the dog
  • Blindingly obvious
  • Deafening silence

Spatial awareness:

  • Lateral transfer. Vertical integraion
  • On wrong side of 50
  • Happiness is U-shaped, dipping in middle age, & rebounding in old age
  • Let’s circle back to that question
  • The middle weight division runs through GGG
  • Overheads have skyrocketed
  • Profits have flattened out.

The Conceptual Approach :

  • Concepts turn Subconscious native thinking into our Conscious learning.

Indirectness:

  • The apple does not fall far from the tree
  • The glass is half full or half empty
  • Get a life
  • Is the Pope Catholic
  • I pinch myself every day
  • Britain needs to wait longer to scratch its itch
  • The clock is our friend
  • Don’t let the grass grow under your feet.
  • The lonely maytag repairment
  • It’s going to be a short night
  • Be my guest
  • She is no spring chicken
  • The biological clock is ticking
  • (After mass shooting) There are more tables with empty chairs this Thanksgiving
  • Take a long walk on a short pier
  • The shroud has no pockets
  • He has two left feet

Final hurdle : humor

  • Chester Ronning’s milk mother
  • Toilet humor : “Stand closer. It may be shorter than you think”