Unit 1 Ways of Learning
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A Learning, Chinese-Style
Part Ⅲ Text B Children and Money
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Using comparison and contrast in essay writing
Unit 2 Values
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A The Richest Man in America, Down Home
Part Ⅲ Text B The Restoration of Jimmy Carter
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: How to write invitations
Unit 3 The Generation Gap
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A Father Knows Better
Part Ⅲ Text B When Father Doesnt Know Best
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Some stylistic differences between speech and writing.
Unit 4 The Virtual World
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A A Virtual Life
Part Ⅲ Text B Mothers Mad about the Internuts
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Inductive generalization
Test Yourself (Units 1 - 4)
Unit 5 Overcoming Obstacles
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A True Height
Part Ⅲ Text B Fourteen Steps
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: How to write a personal description (2)
Unit 6 Women, Half the Sky
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A Im Going to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge
Part Ⅲ Text B Beginning Anew
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Coherence
Unit 7 Learning about English
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A The Glorious Messiness of English
Part Ⅲ Text B The Role of English in the 21st Century
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Information transfer
Unit 8 Protecting Our Environment
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A Saving Nature, But Only for Man
Part Ⅲ Text B An Ugly New Footprint in the Sand
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: How to write a persuasive essay
Test Yourself (Units 5- 8)
Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exercises in Parts Ⅰ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ
Appendix Ⅱ Tapescripts and Key to Test Papers
Appendix Ⅲ Glossary