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Subject 1 Growing Up and Learning
Unit 1
·Schools and school life in the US, the UK, and China
·Personal stories about Chinese education
·Education in literature: a short story and a poem about a teacher
·Special education: life of ADHD students
Unit 2
·Understanding different views on education
·Educational liberalism
·School reforms in the US
Unit 3
·Growing into manhood
·Cultural influences on education
Subject 2 Family Matters
Unit 4
·Happy families
·Family relationships
Unit 5
·Understanding different positions on family and family life
·Reading academic articles
Unit 6
·Omnigamy
·Why Parents Worry
·The characteristics of the Good Family
Subject 3 Learning Literature
Unit 7
·Whitman and his poem
·Poems
·Classic and modern poems
·Poems for fun
Unit 8
·Understanding different views on the role of literature in our lives
·Elements of short stories
·Reading short stories
Unit 9
·Reading the short story
·Practicing plot analysis
·Appreciating a story in an essay
Subject 4 Houses, Cities, and Culture
Unit 10
·Understanding houses in human life
·Appreciating the short story
·Reading neighborhoods and human relationships
Unit 11
·Understanding different positions
·Modern American residential architecture
·Critiquing architecture
Unit 12
·New York: A city of things unnoticed
·Describing facts in literary and journalistic genre
·Ayn Rand: Top of the world in New York
Pronunciation Symbols of American English
