Academic Life
Unit 1
Time Management 1
Dictation &Note Taking 3
Section A:How to Study More Effectively 4
Section B:Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator 6
Retelling 12
Vowels 14
Unit 2
Doing Research 17
Grouping Related Items 19
Section A:The Scientific Method 20
Section B:Ethics in Research 23
Summarizing 28
Consonants 30
Psychological Health
Unit 3
Happiness 33
Implied Meaning 35
Section A: Confucian Philosophy on Happiness 36
Section B: What Makes a Good Life Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness 40
Reviewing 46
Liaison 48
Unit 4
Depression 53
Details 55
Section A:Understanding Depression-Symptoms, Causes &Treatments 55
Section B:Did I Inherit Mental illness 60
Informative Speaking 63
Loss of Plosion 66
Language
Unit 5
language learning 71
Signal words 73
Section A: Why is it necessary to learn a foreign language 74
Section B:Learning a Language-Speak lt like Youre Playing a Video Game 79
Persuasive Speaking 83
Stress 86
Unit 6
Language history 91
Terms & concepts 93
Section A: language, evolution’s great mystery 94
Section B:The History of English 98
Delivering a speech 104
Accent Variation 107
Leadership
Unit7
Teamwork 111
Comparison & Contrast 113
Section A:What Makes a Team 115
Section B:How to Turn a Group of Strangers into a Team 118
Turn-Taking 122
Contractions of Auxiliary Modal Verbs 124
Unit 8
Motivation 129
Speakers Intention Attitude 131
Section A:Self-Managing Company 132
Section B:How Your Brain Responds to Stories-and
Why They Are Crucial for Leaders 135
seminar Discussion 139
Intonation 141