Unit 1 Friendship PART I Lead-in PART II Understanding Movie Clips 1. Movie Clip I: Friends 2. Movie Clip I1: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas PART III Interactive Activities PART IV Cultural Saln 1. Lifetime Friendship 2. How the Americans View Friendship 3. How to Heal a Friendship PART V Supplementary Reading Friendship PART Vl Self-access Learning
Unit 2 Financial Intelligence PART I Lead-in PART II Understanding Movie Clips 1. Movie Clip I: Confessions ofa 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 a. 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 Learnina
Unit 3 Etiquette PART I Lead-in PART II Understanding Movie Clips 1. Movie Clip h The Princess Diaries 2. Movie Clip I1: Pride and Prejudice PART III Interactive Activities PART IV Cultural Salon 1. Superstitious Etiquette 2. Bad Manners Mean 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 I1: You've GotMail 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 Learnino
Unit 5 Vacations PART I Lead-inJo8 PART II Understanding Movie Clips 1. Movie Clip I: Couples Retreat 2. Movie Clip I1: 1ViadagascarII 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. 13o PART II Understanding Movie Clips 1. Movie Clip I: National Treasure: Book of Secrets 2. Movie Clip I1: 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. Exploring the Titanic PART V Supplementary Reading What Makes Us Intelligent? PART VI Self-access Learning
Unit 7 Environmental Protection PART I Lead-in PART II Understanding Movie Clips 1. Movie Clip I: An Inconvenient Truth 2. Movie Clip II: TheAge 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 I1: 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 Learnincl
Unit 9 Dreams PART I Leacl-in PART II Understanding Movie Clips 1. Movie Clip I: The American Dream 2. Movie Clip II: Spider-Man 2 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 Appendix: Scripts of Movie Clips I and II