1. Learn/master new words and expressions and be able to use them in actual situations 2. Grasp the main idea of the text and be able to answer the related questions 3. Develop the students'ability of listening and speaking 4. Cultivate proper habits in reading and writing

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\Picture Mom,dad, and the kids in an upper-middle-- Asian family in 100 years'time: After loading up with cash at the corner Citibank, they drive off to Walmart and fill the trunk of their Ford with the likes of Fritos and Snickers. On the way home, they stop at the American-owne Cineplex to catch the latest Disney movie, paying with their Visa card. In the evening, after putting the kids

If the global economy falters, free trade will suffer \I'M MAD as hell, roared the man on stage. \Mad as hell about what is happening to the manufacturing sector in America. \ This is a trade war with China,\ shouted his colleague, \and it's time to fight that war head on.\ The audience cheered in approval. Patriotic songs played in the background, interspersed with extracts from George Bush's address to the nation after September

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2.1 The postulate In 1864, James Clerk Maxwell proposed one of the most successful theories in the history of science. In a famous memoir to the Royal Society [125] he presented nine equations summarizing all known laws on electricity and magnetism. This was more than a mere cataloging of the laws of nature. By postulating the need for an additional term to make the set of equations self-consistent

Learning strategies are specific methods of learning information that help them learn and remember things. The four commonly observed trends in the development of learning strategies (1)rehearsal increases during the elementary school years. It is rare in kindergarten children but increases in frequency and effectiveness throughout the elementary school years

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4.1 Thorndike’s Connectionism 4.1.1 Edward Lee Thorndike:1874-1949, American educational psychologist. 1891-1895,studied English literature in Wesleyan University. 1895-1897,studied psychology in Harvard Unviversity.(James) 1897-1898, studied in Columbia University, and got his PH.D.(Kattel) 1912, became Chairman of APA