改编自牛津大学出版社原版教材,单元结构和练习设计环环相扣,层层递进,以英语听说所需的各项基本技能贯穿始终,以口语任务产出为导向;该课程基于混合式教学理论和翻转课堂教学方式,体现了信息化时代下,英语教学的新趋势;通过此课程的学习,学生可学到原汁原味的地道语言,培养跨文化交际能力及批判性思维,并拓展国际视野。
此外,此套教程特邀国内一线教学专家添加了语言技能微课讲解,并针对单元主题,增加了体现中西文化对比的中国文化听力素材,增补了生动、有趣、多样的听力和口语练习(增补后的内容稍后会陆续添加)。
UNIT 1 Sociology
Q: What makes someone admirable?
Unit Video: Big Tipper
Reading 1: We All Need a Role Model
Reading Skill: Previewing and predicting
Reading 2: Search for 100 Real-Life Heroes
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary
Writing Skill: Organizing and developing an essay
Grammar: Restrictive relative clauses
Unit Assignment: Write a three-paragraph analysis essay
UNIT 2 Consumer Behavior 32
Q: What makes you want to buy something?
Reading 1: So Much Dead Space
Reading Skill: Highlighting and annotating
Reading 2: Now on Stage: Your Home!
Unit Video: Staging Homes
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with nouns
Writing Skill: Writing a descriptive essay
Grammar: Definite and indefinite articles
Unit Assignment: Write a descriptive essay
UNIT 3 Developmental Psychology
Q: What important lessons do we learn as children?
Reading 1: The Good Teen
Reading Skill: Making inferences
Reading 2: Bird by Bird
Unit Video: Robin Goodman on Children Who Want to Quit
Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes and suffixes
Writing Skill: Writing a narrative essay and varying sentence patterns
Grammar: Past perfect and past perfect continuous
Unit Assignment: Write a narrative essay
UNIT 4 Anthropology
Q: How important is it to write by hand?
Reading 1: Two Styles of Writing
Reading Skill: Understanding compare and contrast organization
Reading 2: Haji Noor Deen—A Chinese Muslim Calligrapher
Unit Video: Is Handwriting Still Important?
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary to distinguish between homonyms
Writing Skill: Writing a compare and contrast essay
Grammar: Subordinators and transitions to compare and contrast
Unit Assignment: Write a compare and contrast essay
UNIT 5 Nutritional Science
Q: Should science influence what we eat?
Unit Video: Genetically Modified Alfalfa
Reading 1: Eating Well: Less Science, More Common Sense
Reading Skill: Recognizing bias
Reading 2: Anatomy of a Nutrition Trend
Vocabulary Skill: Cause and effect collocations
Writing Skill: Writing a cause and effect essay
Grammar: Agents with the passive voice
Unit Assignment: Write a cause and effect essay
UNIT 6 Education
Q: Does school prepare you for work?
Reading 1: From Student to Employee: A Difficult Transition
Reading Skill: Using an outline
Reading 2: Making My First Post-College Career Decision
Unit Video: Entrepreneurs Create New Jobs
Vocabulary Skill: Word forms
Grammar: Reported speech with the present tense and shifting tenses
Writing Skill: Writing a summary
Unit Assignment: Write a summary
UNIT 7 Anthropology
Q: Is discovery always a good thing?
Unit Video: The Adi Culture
Reading 1: A Tribe Is Discovered
Reading Skill: Understanding the purpose of quoted speech
Reading 2: Alaska’s Pebble Mine: Minerals vs. Nature
Vocabulary Skill: Word roots
Writing Skill: Writing an opinion essay
Grammar: Adverb phrases of reason
Unit Assignment: Write an opinion essay
UNIT 8 Psychology
Q: Why is it important to play?
Unit Video: Legos for Adult Enthusiasts
Reading 1: The Promise of Play
Reading Skill: Identifying counterarguments and refutations
Reading 2: Child’s Play: It’s Not Just for Fun
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with prepositions
Writing Skill: Writing a persuasive essay
Grammar: Adverb clauses of concession
Unit Assignment: Write a persuasive essay .