·Career Counseling: Form into groups of five. As a counseling team, you discuss and offer advice to the five students who are seeking career counseling
·Group Project: The recruiters set up booths, and others are graduates seeding job opportunities at the job fair. Talk to the persons at different booths, find the jobs that interest you and try to convince the recruiters why you are the person they are looking for
Unit Seven Why Study Abroad?
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握: New words; the causes for the present changes in people’s desire to study abroad. 重点及难点：
Presenting the pros and cons of a controversial issues and analyzing the pros and cons of studying overseas 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to the article and answer questions
2）Getting ready to talk: Vocabulary Builder; Research work on the pros and cons of studying abroad for Chinese students by reading articles in newspapers and magazines and by searching on the internet. 3）Making your voices heard
·Oral communication skills: How to present the pros and cons of a controversial issue
·Interview: Divide into two groups and discuss the reasons for the changes in Chinese people’s attitude towards studying abroad in the past twenty years ·A Talk Show: “Tell It as It Is” is based on the story
Unit Eight East Meets West
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握：New words; the pros and cons of cultural globalization 重点及难点：
Organizing and presenting your ideas effectively while giving impromptu speeches; analyzing and explaining cultural differences 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to the story and answer questions
2）Getting ready to talk: Vocabulary Builder; Research Work on the issue of cultural globalization 3）Making your voices heard
·Oral communication skills: How to make impromptu speeches
·Problem solving: Read the story and work in groups of five and discuss all the five explanations at the end of the story
·Discussion: Is the influence of American culture and values undermining the traditional Chinese culture and values? Will Chinese lose the cultural identity in face of the globalization of culture?
Unit Nine Are You Leading a Healthy Life?
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握：New words; Health problems and how to solve these problems 重点及难点：
Learning to deliver speeches for some special occasions, define terms from different perspectives and think critically and discuss extensively about modern people’s lifestyle 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to the story and answer questions
2）Getting ready to talk: Vocabulary Builder; Research Work on the issue of facts about our health, and prepare to discuss the relationship between health and modern lifestyle later on 3）Making your voices heard
· Defining Terms: the definition of health and healthy lifestyle
·Problem solving: Ask questions and give your suggestions as to how to deal with the problem ·Role play: Clinic Hour
Unit Ten Putonghua and the Dialects
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握：New words; The Differences between Putonghua and the Dialects 重点及难点：
Learning to express your ideas in longer turns, examine the benefits and problems brought about by the promotion of Putonghua and discuss whether it is important to maintain our dialects 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to the story and answer questions
2）Getting ready to talk: Vocabulary Builder; Research Work on the issue of facts about our health, and prepare to discuss the relationship between health and modern lifestyle later on
3）Making your voices heard
· Defining Terms: the definition of health and healthy lifestyle
·Problem solving: Ask questions and give your suggestions as to how to deal with the problem ·Role play: Clinic Hour
Unit Eleven Gender Equality
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握 ：New words; The various forms gender inequality and the measures to fight against it 重点及难点：
Learning to identify the various forms gender inequality takes, think of the reasons for gender inequality and the measures we might take to fight against it and describe the information given in the graphs concerning this topic 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to the story and answer questions
2）Getting ready to talk: Vocabulary Builder; Research Work on the issue of facts about our health, and prepare to discuss the relationship between health and modern lifestyle later on 3）Making your voices heard
· Defining Terms: the definition of health and healthy lifestyle
·Problem solving: Ask questions and give your suggestions as to how to deal with the problem ·Role play: Clinic Hour
Unit Twelve Music in the Movies
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握 ：New words; the relationships between music and the movies 重点及难点：
Learning to do research on various contributions music has made to the movies, and discuss how music fits into a movie and how it enhances the theme and so on 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to the story and answer questions
2）Getting ready to talk: Vocabulary Builder; Research Work on various roles that film music plays in certain films and try to understand the relationships between music and the movies
3）Making your voices heard ·How to challenge an assertion ·Case analysis ·Problem solving
Unit Thirteen Endangered Nature, Endangered Man
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握 ：New words; The relationship between environmental protection and economic development 重点及难点：
Learning to analyze and comment on environmental problems, and discuss extensively about the relationship between environmental protection and economic development 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to the story and answer questions
2）Getting ready to talk: Vocabulary Builder; Research Work on environmental protection and economic development
3）Making your voices heard ·How to deliver persuasive speeches ·Problem Identification
Unit Fourteen Homosexuality and AIDS
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握：New words; Learning about the homosexuals and AIDS 重点及难点：
Learning to be tolerant and open-minded to homosexuals, be alert to AIDS, and identify and challenge problematic assumptions 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to the story and answer questions
2）Getting ready to talk: Vocabulary Builder; Research Work on concerning homosexuality and AIDS 3）Making your voices heard
·Knowing More About the Red Ribbon
·Discussion: What changes have you noticed in our people’s attitude toward homosexuality? What leads t
people’s tolerance?
Unit Fifteen Modernization vs. Cultural Traditions
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握 ：New words; The relationship between modernization and cultural traditions 重点及难点：
Learning to explore the relationship between modernization and cultural traditions and discuss whether it is important to preserve out cultural traditions during the process of modernization and how this can be achieved 主要教学内容：
1）Listening activities: Listen to the story and answer questions
2）Getting ready to talk: Vocabulary Builder; Research Work on the relationship between modernization and cultural traditions 3）Making your voices heard
·How to do research for presentations
·Summary: What is the ideal relationship between modernization and cultural traditions? How can this ideal relationship be established?
第四学期
Unit One Approaching Debate
基本教学目的和要求：
要求掌握 ：New words，expressions and sentence patterns; Steps in preparing for a debate 重点及难点：
Identifying opinions and reasons; conducting a debate 主要教学内容：
1）Getting to know the basics 2）Conducting a debate 3）Flowing a debate 4) Evaluating a debate
Unit Two Home Schooling Versus Formal Education