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Book 1
Unit 1 Teenage Life
单元核心:帮助青少年navigate challenges(应对挑战)、forge identity(塑造自我)并embrace growth(拥抱成长)
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.—Aristotle
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.—William Butler Yeats
Unit 2 Traveling Around
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.—Francis Bacon
Travel is the best form of self-education.—Mark Twain
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Unit 3 Sports and Fitness
All sports for all people.—Pierre de Coubertin
I can accept failure; everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.—Michael Jordan
Life is movement.
Unit 4 Natural Disasters
Earthquakes leave deep scars on the land and in people’s hearts.
Preparation can mean the difference between life and death.
What we do to the earth, we do to ourselves.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Disasters remind us of our fragility, but also our unity.
Unit 5 Languages Around the World
One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.—Frank Smith
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
Language is the dress of thought.—Samuel Johnson
The invention of writing is the dawn of true civilization.—Henry Mill
To have another language is to possess a second soul.—Charlemagne
When pronunciation fails, chaos becomes the universal language.
Book 2
Unit 1 Cultural Heritage
Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations.—World Heritage Centre
Cultural heritage connects the past, present, and future.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.—Marcus Garvey
Unit 2 Wildlife Protection
单元核心:野心动物保护
When the buying stops, the killing can too.—WildAid
We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Leave nothing but footprints. Take nothing but pictures. Kill nothing but time.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.—Dr. Jane Goodall
Unit 3 The Internet
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.—Bill Gates
Social media is not a media. The key is to listen, engage, and build relationships.—David Alston
Information is not knowledge.—Albert Einstein
Unit 4 History and Traditions
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.—Marcus Garvey
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.—George Santayana
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.—Gustav Mahler
Unit 5 Music
单元主题:音乐跨越文化沟通
Music is the universal language of mankind.—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Where words fail, music speaks.
In the digital age, music is not just heard–it’s experienced.
Book 3
Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations
单元重点:理解节日文化内涵(Cultural Significance)与尊重文化多样性(Cultural Diversity)
Festivals are the mirrors of a culture’s soul.
A festival is not just a date; it’s a state of mind.
At Christmas, all roads lead home.
Unit 2 Morals and Virtues
单元核心主题——个人选择、责任担当、诚信正直、利他精神
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.—William Wordsworth
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.—Mahatma Gandhi
The time is always right to do what is right.—Martin Luther King Jr.
Unit 3 Diverse Cultures
核心主题:文化多样性、包容、理解、交流、尊重
The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people.
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.
Unit 4 Space Exploration
单元主题:太空探索
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.—Neil Armstrong
Dream it. Believe it. Achieve it.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Unit 5 The Value of Money
单元主题:批判拜金主义、倡导理性财富观、强调道德获取与社会责任
Money is a good servant and a bad master.—Francis Bacon
All that glitters is not gold.—The Merchant of Venice
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
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