Unit 1 Friendship
PART I Lead-in
PART II Understanding Movie Clips
1.Movie Clip I: Friends
2.Movie Clip II: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
PART III Interactive Activities
PART IV Cultural Salon
1.Lifetime Friendship
2.How the Americans View Friendship
3.How to Heal a Friendship
PART V Supplementary Reading
Friendship
PART VI Self-access Learning
Unit 2 Financial Intelligence
PART I Lead-in
PART II Understanding Movie Clips
1.Movie Clip I: Confessions of a Shopaholic
2.Movie Clip II: Brewster’s Millions
PART III Interactive Activities
PART IV Cultural Salon
1.Money in Your Pocket
2.Paying Closer Attention to Personal Finance
3.Online Money Management Sites Cater to Young Savers
4.Eight Concepts That Can Help Graduates to Save Money
5.Economic Education
PART V Supplementary Reading
Ten False Ideas on Personal Financial Management
PART VI Self-access Learning
Unit 3 Etiquette
PART I Lead-in
PART II Understanding Movie Clips
1.Movie Clip I: The Princess Diaries
2.Movie Clip II: Pride and Prejudice
PART III Interactive Activities
PART IV Cultural Salon
1.Superstitious Etiquette
2.Bad Manners Means Bad Coffee
3.On Etiquette
4.How to Correct Other People’s Grammar
5.Touching Someone
PART V Supplementary Reading
Business Etiquette
PART VI Self-access Learning
Unit 4 Cyberculture
PART I Lead-in
PART II Understanding Movie Clips
1.Movie Clip I: The Social Network
2.Movie Clip II: You’ve Got Mail
PART III Interactive Activities
PART IV Cultural Salon
1.What’s WeChat?
2.Nearly Half of All Video Gamers Are Women
3.New Digital Library to Display World on the Internet
4.Using a Mobile Phone to Improve Mother and Child Health
5.Google
PART V Supplementary Reading
Connecting Globally
PART VI Self-access Learning
Unit 5 Vacations
PART I Lead-in
PART II Understanding Movie Clips
1.Movie Clip I: Couples Retreat
2.Movie Clip II: Madagascar II
PART III Interactive Activities
PART IV Cultural Salon
1.On Vacation
2.Where Do Americans Go on Summer Vacation?
3.More Americans Planning to Spend Less on Travel This Year
4.Europeans Enjoy the Longest Vacations
5.Account of My Travels
PART V Supplementary Reading
How I Spent My Winter Vacation
PART VI Self-access Learning
Unit 6 Explorations
PART I Lead-in
PART II Understanding Movie Clips
1.Movie Clip I: National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2.Movie Clip II: Rio
PART III Interactive Activities
PART IV Cultural Salon
1.Sleep Science: The Mystery of Dreams and Dreaming
2.Charles Darwin
3.The Pop Revolution
4.Naked Science: Super Volcano
5.Explore the Titanic
PART V Supplementary Reading
What Makes Us Intelligent?
PART VI Self-access Learning
Unit 7 Environmental Protection
PART I Lead-in _ 286
PART II Understanding Movie Clips
1.Movie Clip I: An Inconvenient Truth
2.Movie Clip II: The Age of Stupid
PART III Interactive Activities
PART IV Cultural Salon
1.Wind Power to Lead Growth in Renewable Energies
2.Importance of Biodiversity
3.Carbon Offsetting
PART V Supplementary Reading
Recycling Helps, but It’s Not All You Can Do for the Environment
PART VI Self-access Learning
Unit 8 Culture Shocks
PART I Lead-in
PART II Understanding Movie Clips
1.Movie Clip I: The Joy Luck Club
2.Movie Clip II: The Gua Sha Treatment
PART III Interactive Activities
PART IV Cultural Salon
1.Four Steps of Culture Shock
2.What Causes Culture Shock?
3.Teaching Overseas
4.Culture Contrast
PART V Supplementary Reading
Culture Shock: Schools in the U.S. and Japan
PART VI Self-access Learning
Unit 9 Dreams
PART I Lead-in
PART II Understanding Movie Clips
1.Movie Clip I: The American Dream
2.Movie Clip II: Spider-Man
PART III Interactive Activities
PART IV Cultural Salon
1.Lucid Dream
2.Hallucination
3.Morpheus
4.Decoding the Meaning of Your Dreams
5.The Meaning of Colors in Dreams
PART V Supplementary Reading
Upper Bound
PART VI Self-access Learning
Unit 10 Beliefs
PART I Lead-in
PART II Understanding Movie Clips
1.Movie Clip I: The Shawshank Redemption
2.Movie Clip II: The Pursuit of Happyness
PART III Interactive Activities
PART IV Cultural Salon
1.Faith Is All That Some Evacuees Have
2.Obama Says Religious Faith Sustains Him amid Challenges
3.I Believe
4.A Story about Expressing Faith in America
PART V Supplementary Reading
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
PART VI Self-access Learning