The course aims to develop students’ basic reading and writing skills in English. A unified fThe 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 organization patterns 3.Recognizing tone and point of view 4.Expanding vocabulary, phrases, terms and expressions 5.Evaluating content: critical reading and thinking 6.Analyzing structure of complicated sentences 7.Reading between the lines 8.Developing skills for skimming and scanning 9.Developing fluency in reading