Unit1SchoolLifeP2Unit2LanguageandCultureUnit3TravelUnit4CustomsandTraditionsUnderstandingDiscoveringReading,ListeningandViewingVocabularyFocusGrammarinUseReadingA:AWritingAssignment(Shortstory)Readingstrategy:SkimmingforthemainideaSuffixesTenses(review+futureinthepast)ReadingB:ALettertoMyDaughter(Personalletter)Listening:HowtoHaveaGreatFirstYear(Schoolguide)Viewing:AHighSchoolStarter(TVprogramme)CultureLink:FirstWeekofSeniorHighSchoolReadingA:TheConfusingWayMexicansTellTime(Blogentry)PrefixesBasicsentencepatternsReadingB:MyExperiencewithAmericanEnglish(Memoir)CultureLink:VarietiesofEnglishListening:CulturalDifferencesinBodyLanguage(Radioprogramme)Listeningstrategy:ListeningforthemainideaViewing:“IDon’tCare”vs.“IDon’tMind”(Mini-lecture)ReadingA:ARomanHoliday(Travelogue)Readingstrategy:ScanningforparticularinformationCompoundingAdverbialclauses(review)ReadingB:TravelYoung,TravelFar(Columnarticle)CultureLink:XuXiakeandHisTravelsListening:TravelDialogues(Conversation)Viewing:ASmartMan’sWords(Vodcast)ReadingA:GrowingWorldwide(Newspaperarticle)ConversionPassives(review+presentcontinuouspassiveandpresentperfectpassive)ReadingB:Homecoming(Introductoryessay)Listening:Coming-of-AgeDay(Radioprogramme)Listeningstrategy:ListeningforkeywordsCultureLink:Coming-of-AgeTraditioninVanuatuViewing:BirthdayTraditions(Vodcast)UnitP18P34P50P50Appendices*WordsandExpressionsP66ReadingP66ListeningandViewingP76*GrammarTermsP79*GlossaryP80ProducingExtendingSpeakingandWritingCriticalThinkingFurtherExplorationInterviewingnewcomersSpeakingstrategy:ShowinginterestwithproperexpressionsDescribingthefirstweekexperiencesWritingstrategy:WritingatopicsentenceIdentifyingkeymessagesfromdifferenttextsDescribinganidealschoollifeWritingaboutaChinesewordWritingstrategy:WritingsupportingsentencesGivingatalkonaChinesewordSpeakingstrategy:Attractingtheaudience’sattentionIllustratinganideawithanexampleComparingdifferentculturalmessagesbehindEnglishandChinesewordsChoosingacitytovisitSpeakingstrategy:Join...
