本教材選取學生感興趣且實用的八大主題，涵蓋教育、科技、習慣等包括如下部分：Part I Vocabulary Building：通過微課視頻進行翻轉學習（積累與主題相關的詞彙和短語）。Part II Skills Building：學習與主題相關的句型和慣用表達，提升口語技能。Part III Do you Know?：文化背景鳥瞰。該部分展示與主題相關的中西文化對比，或相關領域的*新發展，擴大學生的知識面，為後期討論提供素材。Part IV Idea Building：觀點展示。該部分是通過觀看視頻，基於視頻內容回答問題或開展小組討論和課堂辯論。Part V Idea Developing：觀點提升。該部分是第四部分的升華，通過觀看視頻，並引發對現實問題的深度思考，旨在觸發學生做深入探討，對各種現像作批判性思考，培養學生的綜合素質。Part VI Theme Projects：主題項目展示。該部分為學生列出與主題相關的項目題目，項目內容和要求，項目實施方法，項目評價標準以及參考資源等，學生通過小組合作學習，對相關主題形成論證方法，並在課堂展示項目。

艾治瓊，副教授，重慶郵電大學外國語學院教學部主任。主要研究生基於信息技術的英語教學，教授大學英語讀寫譯、大學英語視聽說、商務英語交際、跨文化口語、職場英語、等課程。主持和參與多項聽說課件的制作，並在國家、省部級多次獲獎，多年為本科生和研究生開設的口語類課程。

Unit 1 Kindness， the Light of Hope
Unit 2 Love， Hell or Heaven?
Unit 3 Happiness， a Paradox of Life?
Unit 4 Habit， the Code for Your Life
Unit 5 Money—Angel or Demon?
Unit 6 Education—Way in or out?
Unit 7 Technology—Liberator or Oppressor?
Unit 8 A Better Me—Easy or Hard Choice

Unit 1 Kindness，the Light of Hope
Part I Expression Bank
Section 1 Words About Kindness
Kindness，a timeless，universal virtue，brings the light of hope to the world. Watch Video 11，learn the synonyms and antonyms related to kindness，and then check your learning with the following exercises.
Directions：Fill in the blanks with what you have learned in this video.
1. People have become to the sufferings of others.
2. He is to share what he has with others.
3. Is it to kill those dogs for food？
4. This judge is impartial and towards anyone found guilty of murder.
5. Susan longed for a man she could have a hearttoheart talk with.
6. She is very and never gives a tip to the waiter in the restaurant.
Section 2 Idioms About Kindness
There are some interesting idioms about kindness often used in our daily life. Watch Video 12，learn the 6 expressions related with kindness，and then finish the following exercises.
Directions：Choose the best one to each of the following statements.
1. We realized the teacher was when he was found abusing students.
A. a tiger in goat's cloth
B. a wolf in sheep's clothing
C. a goat in tiger's cloth
D. a sheep in wolf's clothing
2. Sara was a very generous woman，overflowing with the of human kindness.
A. chocolate
B. honey
C. milk
D. candy
3. She gave one of her former friends the cold .
A. hand
B. shoulder
C. face
D. eyes
4. Be nice and try to go easy him.
A. on
B. in
C. with
D. at
5. Every time I went to the grocery store，the shopkeeper and convinced me to buy lots of things.
A. gave me of kindness
B. murdered me from kindness
C. killed me with kindness
D. suicide me with kindness
6. My new neighbor is a who never smiles to anyone.
A. icy fish
B. cold fish
C. cool fish
D. frozen fish
……