CONTENTS

1．Episode 1 A Handful of Sand

2．Episode 2 Making an Offer

3．Episode 3 Feasibility

4．Episode 4 What’the Verdict？

5．Episode 5 A Political Matter

6．Episode 6 Forming a Consortium

7．Episode 7 Agreements

8．Episode 8 Invitations

9．Episode 9 Getting the Message

10．Episode 10 We’re in Trouble

11．Episode 11 Evaluation

12．Episode 12 Power for the Plateau

13．Episode 13 The Last Visit

14．Key to exercises

15．Vocabulary

16．List of characters