Unit1 Half a day

1.1 The Author & Backgroud Information

1.2 The Organization & Language Pionts

1.3 The Writing Techniques & Critical Thinking

Unit 2 The Boy and the Bank Officer

2.1 Background Information and Cultural Points

2.2 Text Analysis and Writing Techniques

2.3 Language Learning and Sentence Paraphrasing

Unit 3 Meaasge of the Land

3.1 The Author and Background Information

3.2 Theme Analysis and “Message" of the Land

3.3 The Genre and Writing Devices

Unit 4 The Midnight Visitor

4.1 A Glimpse of Spy Fiction

4.2 Characterization

Unit5 The Nightinggale and the Rose

5.1 The Image of the Nightingale

5.2 Oscar Wilde's paradoxical language play

Unit6 Green Banana

6.1 Thematic Analysis

6.2 Detailed analysis of the text

6.3 Extension

Unit8 The Kindness of Strangers

8.1 Warming up & Background Information

8.2 Text Analysis

8.3 Theme Exploration

Unit9 After twenty years

9.2 Thematic Analysis

9.3 Writing device—euphemism

9.1 Lead in and Background information

Unit10 Mandela's Garden

10.1 Mandela's life

10.2 What can we learn from him

Unit11 Maheegun My Brother

11.1 Cultural Background

11.2 The Structure & Details of the Text

11.3 Rhetorical Devices

Unit 12 Christmas Day in the Morning

12.3 Writing Devices

12.1 Author's Life & Work

12.2 Cultural Background and Theme of the Text

Unit13 The Greatest Invention

13.1 Introduction and Structure of Text

13.2 Theme of the Text

Unit14 Clearing in the Sky

14.1 The Author & Backgroud Information

14.2 Analysis of the Text & Humanities

14.3 Language Point--Metaphor

Unit15 The Monsters are Due On Maple Street

15.1 Science Fiction

15.2 Genre and Theme

15.3 Language Points