Book 4 Learning Goals
By the end of each passage, students will be able to achieve the following corresponding goals:
U1AR1
- get to know oneself better and prepare themselves better for the future career;
- learn some idioms and expressions relevant to job hunting;
- speak to give different viewpoints;
- use exemplification .
U1AR2
- identify features of informal writing;
- appreciate the narrative feature of the text;
- know how to write an English resume.
U1RAC
- get to know Generation X, Y and Z, etc.
U3AR1
- expand their vocabulary relevant to fashion;
- Identifying features of a formal writing style;
- know functions of clothes by analyzing the text.
U3AR2
- expand their vocabulary relevant to fashion;
- Identifying features of a formal writing style;
- know functions of clothes by analyzing the text.
U3RAC
- get to know fashion weeks, famous fashion cities, etc.
U5AR1
- understand what gender stereotypes are like in life and those about gossip in the text;
- comprehend how the survey report is structured and what sentence patterns are applied in writing;
- use quotations, statements, facts, figures, explanations, diagrams, charts and the likes in popular science writing;
- grasp the language points as follows:
-words: highbrow, animated, appreciative, effeminate, juicy, bemoan, expletive, masculine, speculate, proportion, etiquette, exhaustive, highbrow, informant, initially, reciprocate, semantics, stigma;
-phrases: account for, in terms of, more…than, turn out to be, principal factor, crucial element, convey one’s surprise
-sentence patterns: on + gerund + main clause, be found to do/be + more likely to do.
U5AR2
- recognize how the female workers look like in workplace in life;
- observe a social phenomenon in an objectively and detailed way;
- comprehend how the women in the workplace is marked from various aspects;
- use theoretical terms, exemplification, comparison, and the likes in popular science writing;
- grasp the language points as follows:
-words: alter, denote, eloquent, entrust, hostile, miserable, presume, quote, singular, staple, undermine, alluring, alphabetize, availability, frivolousness, nominee, sarcastic;
-phrases: catch sb. Off guard, fill out, other than, slip into, take account of.
U5RAC
- be familiar with the feminism in the last 50 years and comprehend related social phenomenon in an objective way.
U6AR1
- understand the basic knowledge about Winston Churchill in terms of family background, learning and working experience, social status and so on;
- comprehend some British politics such as parliament, government functions, general election, political parties and so on;
- appreciate how a historical figure is presented in an attractive and detailed way;
- use such rhetorical devices as synonym, antonym and repetition in writing;
- grasp the language points as follows:
-words: brutal, democracy, irony, loyal, offensive, renowned, retreat, tolerant, degenerate, liquor, onset, shabby, surpass, swap;
-phrases: date back to, get sb. Out of, make amends, on the brink of, pack off, sit out, take off.
U6AR2
- understand why history means and why the historian’s disagreements are destined to remain based on some evidences;
- grasp an exposition’s structure and the impersonal style in reading;
- grasp the language points as follows;
-words: destined, emerge, probe, quest, restricted, approximate, eliminate, intriguing, investigate, memorize, premise, sufficient, validity, contend, presumably, propaganda, reasonably, territory;
-phrases: from a different perspective, in broad sense, at best, fill in, stem from.