Unit 1
TEXT A What Makes a Global Language
TEXT B The Story of English
Speaking Skills How to Start a Conversation
Unit 2
TEXT A Managers for the 21 st Century
TEXT B The Muddle of MBAs
Speaking Skills How to Make Suggestions
Unit 3
TEXT A Engineering
TEXT B Introductions to the Grand Challenges for Engineering
Speaking Skills How to Talk about Likes and Dislikes
How to Give Instructions
Unit 4
TEXT A Images of Public Administration
TEXT B The Spirit of Adam Smith
Speaking Skills How to Make and Respond to Compliments
Unit 5
TEXT A Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (I)
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (II)
TEXT B Sand from Centuries Past; Send Future Voices Fast
Speaking Skills How to Complain
How to Make an Appointment
Unit 6
TEXT A What is a Scientific Theory
TEXT B A Beautiful Mind
Speaking Skills How to Make a Public Speech
Unit 7
TEXT A Our Century ... and the Next One
TEXT B Computers Know a Lot about You
Speaking Skills How to Host a Symposium
Unit 8
TEXT A College Pressures
TEXT B Plagiarism Exposed at University
Speaking Skills How to Make a Dinner Speech
Unit 9
TEXT A How "Average" People Excel
TEXT B Civil Disobedience
Speaking Skills How to Make Opening and Closing Remarks
Unit 10
TEXT A Professions for Women
TEXT B The Gift of Maggie
Speaking Skills How to Debate
Unit 11
TEXT A Science and Humanity in the Twenty-First Century
TEXT B The Anthropological Study of Religion
Speaking Skills Research Presentation (I)
Unit 12
TEXT A Can Ethics Be Taught
TEXT B The Moral Ambiguity of Looting
Speaking Skills Research Presentation(II)
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