Part I Skills needed for extensive reading
Unit 1 How to deal with new words or phrases
Warm-up
In-class reading
Text 1 What is autism?
Text 2 Lip-synching
Group discussion
Further practice
Text 3 Uniform appeal: Entertainment in South Korea
Skill acquisition check
Unit 2 How to make predictions
Warm-up
In-class reading
Text 1 Four kinds of reading
Text 2 The cat and the grizzly
Group discussion
Further practice
Text 3 John Nash
Skill acquisition check
Unit 3 How to skim and scan what you read
Warm-up
In-class reading
Text 1 Fake foning
Text 2 Deliver a presentation like Steve Jobs
Group discussion
Further practice
Text 3 High-tech trash
Skill acquisition check
Unit 4 How to outline what you read
Warm-up
In-class reading
Text 1 Why so little Chinese in English?
Text 2 Little match children
Group discussion
Further practice
Text 3 Coincidences and the meaning of life
Skill acquisition check
Unit 5 How to read analytically and critically
Warm-up
In-class reading
Text 1 The plot against people
Text 2 Why women aren’t funny
Group discussion
Further practice
Text 3 Are tote bags really good for the environment?
Skill acquisition check
Part II Theme-based extensive and analytical reading
Unit 6 On extensive reading
Pre-class reading tasks
Text 1 What is extensive reading?
Text 2 Extensive reading: Why? and how?
Text 3 Extensive reading
Classroom activities
Unit 7 Western mythology
Pre-class reading tasks
Text Cupid and Psyche
Classroom activities
Unit 8 Pollution: Who to blame?
Pre-class reading tasks
Text 1 Smog
Text 2 China fights uphill battle against air pollution
Text 3 China: Ecological civilization rising?
Classroom activities
Unit 9 China in western people’s eyes
Pre-class reading tasks
Text 1 Gilded age, gilded cage
Text 2 Symphony of millions
Classroom activities
Unit 10 Disputes over science
Pre-class reading tasks
Text 1 What happens when we all live to 100?
Text 2 The illusion of ‘natural’
Classroom activities
Unit 11 Detective stories
Pre-class reading tasks
Text 1 The False Burton Combs
Text 2 The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
Classroom activities
Unit 12 Adolescent stories
Pre-class reading tasks
Text 1 Peter Two
Text 2 The Catcher in the Rye (Chapters 22, 24 and 25)
Classroom activities
Sources of Texts