Menu Creativity

If you are stuck, if you have no idea how to make an attractive menu, check out this website for hundreds of examples:

http://www.musthavemenus.com/menu/browse.do

Here is a very small sample (mouse over each picture on their website to see an enlargement):

Restaurant Menu Project

tinyurl.com/CUTe-2011-Restaurant-Project


The class has been divided into five roughly equal groups of about five people each. Your job is to translate the menus of these five school restaurants and to present them in an attractive bilingual format. You will start during week 4 and finish in week 7 (see the course outline for details). Your grade will be based on five criteria (use the rubric you received for self-evaluation): translation accuracy, grammar, spelling & proofreading, layout (completeness), and creativity. Here are the names of the five restaurants and their group leaders:

Course Outline and Schedule

This course outline is available on our school website. I am posting it here to help students who seem to have "forgotten" our course requirements or schedule.

課程目標 To learn to write acceptable English at an intermediate level on a variety of everyday topics in professional and social settings. Cursive script, still widely considered a mark of maturity in Europe and South America, will be taught and required for correspondence involving a personal touch (such as birthday cards, get well cards and condolences). The academic focus for this class will be on expanding one’s vocabulary by learning common collocations.

課堂規約         1. Students are expected to come to class well-rested (sleeping in class = absence) with all supplies needed for work: the correct textbook, a 26-hole looseleaf binder, 26-hole notebook paper for notes (index cards are also useful) and two pens (a black pen for regular notes and a red pen for emphasis).         2. Ants, roaches and other uninvited guests will be less likely to come to a clean, dry classroom, so please enjoy your snacks and drinks outside the classroom.

民國100年9月05日至101年01月06日止

Our tentative schedule for this semester:

Why Learning Script is Important 學習寫英文書寫體（草寫）的理由

Many Chinese students have trouble reading cursive script. Even fewer people can write cursive script. Here are some linguistic and social reasons why everybody should learn to write cursive script.

Cursive Fonts

Not all writing should be done on a computer. Cursive script is still very useful, especially outside of the US. Cursive script gives a personal touch to greeting cards and letters.Please download these two TTF fonts and install them on your computer:

Get Cursif and Cursif & Lignes here: 
http://www.fontspace.com/christophe-beaumale/cursif

These two French cursive fonts will help you learn to write in beautiful European-style script.  

For people in Europe and South America, American ball-and-stick writing ("ball-and-stick has produced a handwriting disaster") looks childish. D'Nealian Manuscript is a modified form (+ "monkey tail") of ball and stick. Some people think it is better than plain ball-and-stick.

 

First Survey

On the first day of class, you should fill out this survey to help me learn who you are. ALL students must answer these questions, even if you have been in one of my other classes. If one of your classmates was absent on the first day, please send them a text message or an email with this URL:


tinyurl.com/CUTe-First-Survey