This course is designed to help low intermediate students approach a reading text with the following skills focusing on reading comprehension, vocabulary development, reading and discussion as well as reading skills.  Topics include food, inventions, studying abroad, money and budgets, the Olympics, great structures, modern lifestyles, language and communication, festivals and celebrations, adulthood, future predictions, and folk tales.
	By the end of the course, students will be able to: 
1. comprehend English articles in various fields,
2. learn basic knowledge of natural and social sciences,
3. use skills including predicting and scanning,
4. use headings and sub-headings to predict content, 
5. skim for main ideas,
6. identify transition words,
7. make inferences,
8. recognize sequences of events,
9. identify main ideas,
10. and identify cause and effect.