The goal of this English Reading course is to equip students with the abilities to understand high-intermediate written English and to obtain the reading skills as follows: 1. Recalling main ideas and details 2. Identifying organizational patterns 3. Recognizing tone and point of view 4. Expanding vocabulary, phrases, terms and expressions 5. Evaluating content: critical reading and thinking 6. Analyzing the structure of complicated sentences 7. Reading between the lines 8. Developing skills for skimming and scanning 9. Developing fluency in reading