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Unit 1 Education Academic focus: How to define
Unit 2 System Academic focus: How to contextualize background information
Unit 3 Behavior Academic focus: How to compare and contrast
Unit 4 Psychology Academic focus: How to explain
Unit 5 Nature Academic focus: How to summarize
Unit 6 Environment Academic focus: How to synthesize
Unit 7 Social Life Academic focus: How to review literature
Unit 1 Education
Critical thinking: A brief introduction to definition
Reading: Reading for definitions
Listening & Speaking: Definition in lectures
Writing: Four steps to an extended definition
Vocabulary & Structure
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Writing an extended definition essay
Self-assessment
Unit 2 System
Critical thinking: Contextualization & Introduction
Reading: Reading contextualization for background information
Listening & Speaking: Contextualization
Writing: Five steps to an effective contextualization
Vocabulary: Prepositions & prepositional phrases
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Self -assessment 2
Writing an introduction
Unit 3 Behavior
Critical thinking: A brief Introduction to comparison and contrast
Reading: Reading for comparison and contrast
Listening & Speaking: Comparison and contrast in lectures
Writing: Comparison and contrast essays
Vocabulary: Cohesion: conjunction
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Self-assessment 3
Writing a comparison essay
Unit 4 Psychology
Critical thinking: Explaining notional meanings
Reading: Reading for explanation
Listening & Speaking: Explanation in daily and academic situation
Writing: Writing an explanation logically
Vocabulary: Academic lexicons and nominalization
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Self-assessment 4
Writing to explain a notional meaning
Unit 5 Nature
Critical thinking: Summary: A brief introduction
Reading: Reading summaries
Listening & Speaking: Listening for the main ideas and supporting details
Writing: Writing a summary
Vocabulary & structure: Reporting words
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Writing a summary
Self-assessment
Unit 6 Environment
Critical thinking: a brief introduction to synthesize
Reading: understanding synthesis
Listening & Speaking: organizing information in a synthesis
Writing: writing concession and concession-rebuttals
Vocabulary and structure: concession words and phrases
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Writing a concession-rebuttal paragraph
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Unit 7 Social Life
Critical Thinking: Literature review: an introduction
Reading: The structure of a literature review
Listening and Speaking: Literature review in lectures
Writing: Five steps to a literature review
Vocabulary and Structure: Using signal phrases to present a literature review
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Self-assessment
Writing a literature review
