Unit 1
Growing Up
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A Writing for Myself
Part Ⅲ Text B Summer Reading
Part Ⅳ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: How to write a narrative (1)
Unit 2
Friendship
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter
Part Ⅲ Text B Never Let a Friend Down
Part Ⅳ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: How to write a personal letter (1)
Unit 3
Understanding Science
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A Public Attitudes toward Science
Part Ⅲ TextB How to Make Sense Out of Science
Part Ⅳ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: How to write an expository essay (1)
Unit 4
American Dream
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A Tony Trivisonnos American Dream
Part Ⅲ Text B Ben Carson: Man of Miracles
Part Ⅳ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: How to write a personal description (1)
Test Yourself: (Units 1 - 4)
Unit 5
Romance
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A A Valentine Story
Part Ⅲ Text B The Wallet
Part Ⅳ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: How to write a narrative (2)
Unit 6
Animal Intelligence
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A What Animals Really Think
Part Ⅲ Text B Do Animals Fall in Love?
Part Ⅳ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Learn to use examples in essay writing
Unit 7
Emergency
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A "Kids on the Track!"
Part Ⅲ Text B The Night the River Came In
Part Ⅳ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Writing in time sequence
Unit 8
Coping with an Educational Problem
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A Fable of the Lazy Teenager
Part Ⅲ Text B Ditch the Calculator
Part Ⅳ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Using cause and effect in essay writing (1)
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 Affixation
Appendix Ⅳ Presupposed Word List
Appendix Ⅴ Glossary