Contents Academic Life Unit 1 Time Management 1 Dictation &Note Taking 3 Section A:How to Study More Effectively?4 Section B:Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator 6 Retelling 12 Vowels 14 Unit 2 Doing Research 17 Grouping Related Items 19 Section A:The Scientific Method 20 Section B:Ethics in Research 23 Summarizing 28 Consonants 30 Psychological Health Unit 3 Happiness 33 Implied Meaning 35 Section A: Confucian Philosophy on Happiness 36 Section B: What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness 40 Reviewing 46 Liaison 48 Unit 4 Depression 53 Details 55 Section A:Understanding Depression-Symptoms, Causes &Treatments 55 Section B:Did I Inherit Mental illness?60 Informative Speaking 63 Loss of Plosion 66 Language Unit 5 language learning 71 Signal words 73 Section A: Why is it necessary to learn a foreign language 74 Section B:Learning a Language-Speak lt like You're Playing a Video Game 79 Persuasive Speaking 83 Stress 86 Unit 6 Language history 91 Terms & concepts 93 Section A: language, evolution's great mystery 94 Section B:The History of English 98 Delivering a speech 104 Accent Variation 107 Leadership Unit7 Teamwork 111 Comparison & Contrast 113 Section A:What Makes a Team?115 Section B:How to Turn a Group of Strangers into a Team?118 Turn-Taking 122 Contractions of Auxiliary Modal Verbs 124 Unit 8 Motivation 129 Speakers Intention Attitude 131 Section A:Self-Managing Company 132 Section B:How Your Brain Responds to Stories-and Why They Are Crucial for Leaders?135 seminar Discussion 139 Intonation 141