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　　Exploring Cultures through Movies is an innovative and stimulating textbook concentrating mainly on improving students' speaking, listening, reading, critical thinking and problem solving skills. The textbook's activities are designed to accommodate a wide range of students' interest and can be used for students of various levels of English proficiency.

　　Key Features:

　　* 8 units featuring a variety of Hollywood & international movies
　　* Each unit contains listening, speaking and reading exercises
　　* Each unit ends with speech, presentation, or role play activities
　　* Pre-intermediate to advanced level listening, speaking and reading
　　* Thought provoking topics for graduate and undergraduate students
　　* A variety of cultural and social themes are introduced and left open for further class discussion
　　* Examination of one's own views and understanding of the world
　　* Emphasis on independent thinking and critical analysis
　　* Help students to develop a multidimensional view of the world
　　* Suitable for speaking, listening, movie and culture courses
　　* Movie viewing is optional

　　Teacher's CD includes: answers, related movie clips, list of movies (in English & Chinese) for each unit, PPT presentations for special topics, final project ideas and samples of students' final projects

作者介紹

Dr. Massoud Moslehpour

　　Dr. Massoud Moslehpour, an EFL educator specialized in computer, speech, presentation, and multimedia instruction, has been teaching in several countries for the past 20 years. He has been working in Taiwan as EFL teacher since 1999. He received his Ph.D. from University of Missouri-Columbia in the field of technology education. He is currently teaching English, Spanish and Quantitative Research Methods as assistant professor for the departments of Foreign Languages and Literature (外國語文學系) and Business Administration (經營管理學系) at Asia University (亞洲大學) in Taichung - Taiwan.