Unit 1 Growing Up

Part I Pre-reading Task

PartⅡ Text A Writing for Myself

PartⅢ Text Summer Reading

PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks

Writing Strategy: How to writ a narrative (1)

Unit 2 Friendship

Part I Pre-reading Task

PartⅡ Text A All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter

PartⅢ Text B Never Let a Friend Down

PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks

Writing Strategy: How to writ a personal letter (1)

Unit 3 Understanding Science

Understanding Science

Part I Pre-reading Task

Part II Text A Pubic Attitudes toward Science

PartⅢ Text B How to Make Sense Out of Science

PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks

Writing Strategy: How to writ an expository essay (1)

Unit 4 American Dream

Part I Pre-reading Task

PartⅡ Text A Tony Trivisonno's American Dream

PartⅢ Text B Ben Carson: Man of Miracles

PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks

Writing Strategy: How to writ a personal description (1)

Test Yourself: (Units 1-4)

Unit 5 Romance

Part I Pre-reading Task

PartⅡ Text A Valentine Story

PartⅢ Text B The wallet

PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks

Writing Strategy: How to writ a narrative (2)

Unit 6 Animal Intelligence

Part I Pre-reading Task

PartⅡ Text A What Animals Really Think

PartⅢ Text B Do Animals Fall in Love?

PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks

Writing Strategy: Learn to use examples in essay writing

Unit 7 Emergency

Part I Pre-reading Task

PartⅡ Text A "Kids on the Track!"

PartⅢ Text B The Night the River Came In

PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks

Writing Strategy: Writing in time sequence

Unit 8 Coping with an Educational Problem

Part I Pre-reading Task

PartⅡ Text A Fable of the Lazy Teenager

PartⅢ Text B Ditch the Calculator

PartⅣ 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, Ⅲ, Ⅳ

AppendixⅡ Tapescripts and Key to Test Papers

AppendixⅢ Affixation

AppendixⅣ Presupposed Word List

Appendix V Glossary