目录

  • 1 Course Introduction
    • 1.1 Course Introduction
    • 1.2 Classwork Activities
    • 1.3 Short Stories: The Empty Pot
    • 1.4 Homework
  • 2 Unit 1 - University Life
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 Word Pretest
    • 2.3 Reading Skill 1
    • 2.4 Text 2
    • 2.5 Conclusion
  • 3 Unit 2 - Culture Shock
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Word Pretest
    • 3.3 Text 1: Making a Cultural Change
    • 3.4 Review: Reading Skill 1
    • 3.5 Short Story 2
  • 4 Unit 3 - Movies
    • 4.1 Unit Introduction
    • 4.2 Word Pretest
    • 4.3 Vocabulary Building
    • 4.4 Text 2: How to Watch a Movie
    • 4.5 Short Films
    • 4.6 Homework
  • 5 Unit 5 - Food
    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Word Pretest
    • 5.3 Vocabulary
    • 5.4 Text 1: A Food Tour of the United States
    • 5.5 Reading Skill 2
    • 5.6 Conclusion
  • 6 Textbook
    • 6.1 PDF
  • 7 Unit 6 - Shyness
    • 7.1 Introduction
    • 7.2 Word Pretest
    • 7.3 Text 1: Overcoming Shyness
    • 7.4 Conclusion
  • 8 Unit 7 - Physical Fitness
    • 8.1 Introduction
    • 8.2 Word Pretest
    • 8.3 Text 1: Eight Myths About Physical Fitness
    • 8.4 Conclusion
  • 9 Midterm Review
    • 9.1 Review
    • 9.2 Word Pretest
    • 9.3 Reading Skills
    • 9.4 Exam Information and Rules
  • 10 Unit 8 - Sports
    • 10.1 Introduction
    • 10.2 Word Pretest
    • 10.3 Text
    • 10.4 Conclusion
  • 11 Unit 10 - Psychology
    • 11.1 Introduction
    • 11.2 Word Pretest
    • 11.3 Reading Skill 3
    • 11.4 Text 1: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
    • 11.5 Conclusion
  • 12 Unit 9 - Festivals & Holidays
    • 12.1 Introduction
    • 12.2 Word Pretest
    • 12.3 Reading Skill 3 More Practice
    • 12.4 Text
    • 12.5 Conclusion
  • 13 Final Review
    • 13.1 Review
    • 13.2 Word Pretest
    • 13.3 Reading Skills
    • 13.4 Practice 1
    • 13.5 Practice 2
    • 13.6 Textbook
    • 13.7 Final Words
  • 14 FINAL EXAM
    • 14.1 Information
  • 15 Holiday English
    • 15.1 Introduction
    • 15.2 Books
    • 15.3 Documents
    • 15.4 Websites
    • 15.5 Movies / TV
Reading Skills
  • 1 RS
  • 2 RS 1
  • 3 RS 2


Reading Skills:


Knowing the reading skills is one of the most important parts of this course.  They give us skills for understanding what we read.  So far we have studied two reading skill.  First, to help us guess or infer word meaning from context.  And second, to find the meaning of complex sentences through finding the main clause (SVO).  


  1. Context Clues to Word Meaning

    1. Page 1-2


  2. Understanding Sentences

    1. Page 95-96