Pre-test
Unit 1Goal
Reading ( Look at what you find along the way ! )
Focus (Syllable and accent; Elements of a sentence)
Hot link (Jeremy Lin)
Summing up
Exercises
Classics (The call of the wild)
Unit2 Goinggreen
Reading ( Want to go green?)
Focus (Incomplete plosion and sonant; Five types of simple sentences)
Hot link ( Earth hour 2012)
Summing up
Exercises
Classics (The last leaf)
Unit3 Love
Reading ( Love is just a thread)
Focus ( Liaison: Perfect tense)
Hot link (Puppy love)
Summing up
Exercises
Classics (Going home)
Unit 4 Help
Reading (Firewood and lunch)
Focus (Tone; Passive voice I )
Hat link (The life c: Lei Feng)
Summing up
Exercises
Classics (The story of Swan Lake)
Unit 5 Cultural differences
Reading (The exchange of gifts)
Focus (Sentence stress; Passive voice II )
Hot link (Forbidden City Starbucks urged to move)
Summing up
Exercises
classics (Alice's adventures in wonderland)
Notes to the texts
Words and expressions in each unit
Keys to the exercises