Unit 1 Freshmen
Reading Strategy: Active Reading
Reading A Library Science
Reading B The First-year College Experience
Unit 2 Friendship
Reading Strategy: Finding and Understanding the Main Idea
Reading A The Unlikely Friendship
Reading B Admire Their Glow
Unit 3 Culture & Arts
Reading Strategy: Identifying Topic Sentences
Reading A The World Body painting Festival
Reading B The Beatles
Review 1 (1-3)
Unit 4 Shopping
Reading Strategy: Making Inferences
Reading A Amazon Customers Banned for Too Many Returns
Reading B Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Shopping
Unit 5 Home and Happiness
Reading Strategy: Reading Aloud
Reading A The Prince's Happy Heart
Reading B What's Happiness?
Unit 6 Finding Love
Reading Strategy: Scanning
Reading A Fast Track to Love
Reading B Love vs.Adversity
Review 2 (4-6)
Unit 7 Thanksgiving
Reading Strategy: Skimming
Reading A Thanksgiving Day
Reading B Thanksgiving Day, 2011-A Proclamation
Unit 8 Travel
Reading Strategy: Summarizing
Reading A Estonia
Reading B The Mosuo Family in Yunnan Ethnic Villages
Unit 9 Chinatown
Reading Strategy: Understanding Intention
Reading A Honoring Chinatown
Reading B Vancouver's China town in Revitalization Efforts
Review 3 (7-9)
Unit 10 Pondering-on Education
Reading Strategy: Understanding by Categorizing
Reading A What I Learned at School
Reading B Nothing Wrong with Education System
Unit 11 Study and Work
Reading Strategy: Making Predictions
Reading A How to Juggle Study and Work
Reading B The Battle over Homework
Unit 12 Funny English
Reading Strategy: Understanding Definitions
Reading A Ten Funny Ways to Learn English Better
Reading B Funny English Errors
Review 4 (10-12)
Vocabulary