This course aims at developing students? reading skills. It starts with an introduction to the basic reading skills and approaches; skimming and scanning, then it presents the way how to practice them while reading texts related to world issues and social trends in each unit, moving to questions for each text.
Subsequent units focus more deeply on practicing those reading skills with more variant lengthy texts, in addition to enriching students' lexical knowledge through the vocabulary exercises of guessing meaning from context.
In the last part, the reading texts given help students to master the skill of reading chunks of information for general understanding instead of translating word-for-word, and to discuss some other reading skills related to their lexical knowledge, such as paraphrasing.