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**UNIT 1A: Jobs**


 * Read about Ann Patchett
 * Virtual job interview


 * UNIT 1B: Family & personality: **
 * [|Starsigns Book]
 * Personality Quiz
 * End of nuclear family forecast- BBC News


 * UNIT 1C: Learning English **
 * [|Is there a Standard English accent?]
 * The New York Times: Boom Times for Foreign Languages in Spain.
 * Whose English is it, anyway? BBC Radio 4 (also with audio)?


 * UNIT 2A: Childhood **
 * [|Children and Their Changing Roles Throughout History] // By [|Scarlett Capelli] //
 * [|20 Reasons Not to Have Children and 10 reasons to have them].
 * When We Were Young: A Conpendium of Childhood, by John Burningham


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">UNIT 2B: Time Management **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">[|The Essential Time-Saving Guide for Busy People]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">What is FOMO?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Have you got a modern malaise called FOMO?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Scientists prove that women are better at multitasking than men.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">**UNIT 2C:**
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">[|Famous Quotes from Sex and the City] - ** GOOD FUN! **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">[|The Main Five Stages in a Relationship]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Breakup lines, explained
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Breakup stories around the web - good fun
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Michael Nyman's humiliated on the Internet by his ex-grilfriend
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Lady Sarah Graham's and other sweet tales of revenge!


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">UNIT 3A: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Visting the US
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Visiting Spain
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Hotel "Snore patrol" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">to help guests sleep more soundly
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Noise pollution


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">UNIT 3B: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Best books of 2011
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">The Man Booker Prize Archive
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Books to download
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Read books online
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">[|The Subconscious Shelf - Which books do you have on your shelves?]


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">UNIT 3C: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Tips for beating Affluenza?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Who wants to be rich? Reading comprehension exercise.


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">UNIT 4B: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">The Bluffer's Guides
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">The pros and cons of self-help books
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">The Secret Scrolls, by Rhonda Byrne


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">UNIT 4C: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Are you afraid of losing your phone? You may have //nomophobia.//
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Do you have nomophobia? Read the article and find out.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Top 10 modern addictions
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Five clues you are addicted to Facebook

**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">UNIT 5A: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">The "Nanny State"
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">List of words banned on tests by the New Yor City Department of Education
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Britain's most ludicrous laws
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Mad laws around the world