Contents

UNIT ONE

Text：Names and How They Began

Learn to Write：How to Write a Page in Your Exercise-books

Learn to Teach：Greetings and Introductions

Readings：（A）Twins

（B）Where Do Family Names Come From？

UNIT TWO

Text：Building a Modern American Marriage

Learn to Write：Capitalization（1）

Learn to Teach：Beginning a Chat

Readings：（A）A Strange Bill

（B）Family Life

UNIT THREE

Text：The Nose on Your Face

Learn to Write：Capitalization（2）

Learn to Teach：Checking Attendance

Readings：（A）Animal Instincts

（B）Body Language

UNIT FOUR

Text：Lifein a Big City

Learn to W rite：Punctuation

Learn to Teach：Talking About Aims and Activities

Readings：（A）Rules for the Road

（B）Life in a Small Town

UNIT FIVE

Text：The Tramp and the Philosopher

Learn to Write：Comma（，）（1）

Learn to Teach：Using Revision in the Classroom

Readings：（A）Daddy’s Little Girl

（B）Hollywood

UNIT SIX

Text：A High School Teacher

Learn to Write：Comma（，）（2）

Learn to Teach：Arranging the Classroom

Readings：（A）Income Tax

（B）Proprietary School

UNIT SEVEN

Text：A Teenager Looks for Work

Learn to Write：Question Mark（？）and Exclamation Mark（！）

Learn to Teach：Consolidation

Readings：（A）An Eager Recruit

（B）Mr George Smith，Unemployed

UNITEIGHT

Text：Travel

Learn to Write：Semicolon（；）and Colon（：）

Learn to Teach：During the Lesson：Giving Instructions

Readings：（A）Who Was Telling the Truth？

（B）London—Britain’s Lively Capital

UNIT NINE

Text：Dear Editors

Learn to Write：Quotation Marks（“”）and（‘’）（1）

Learn to Teach：Presenting New Language

Readings：（A）A Case of Selective Blindness

（B）Psychology Questionnaires

UNIT TEN

Text：Television：the Modern Wonder of Electronics

Learn to Write：Quotation Marks（“”）and（‘’）（2）

Learn to Teach：Encouragement/Confirmation

Readings：（A）A Patient Husband

（B）Television

UNIT ELEVEN

Text：The School That I’d Like

（British Schools：The Students’Views）

Learn to Write：Hyphen（-）

Learn to Teach：Readiness/Able to Participate

Readings：（A）King of the Jungle

（B）Education in Britain（Government System）

UNIT TWELVE

Text：Benjamin Franklin

Learn to Write：Apostrophe（’）

Learn to Teach：Pair and Group Work

Readings：（A）Too Ready to Help

（B）George Washington

UNITTHIRTEEN

Text：I Want a Wife

Learn to Write：Ellipses（ ），Dash（—）and Parentheses（）

Learn to Teach：Control/Discipline

Readings：（A）In a Barber’s Shop

（B）A Woman’s Place—Today

UNIT FOURTEEN

Text：The Language of Social Occasions

Learn to Write：Abbreviations and Contractions

Learn to Teach：Ending the Lesson

Readings：（A）April Fools’Day

（B）Communicatiion：Signs，Pictures and Letters

UNIT FIFTEEN

Text：Settling Down in England

Learn to Write：Numbers and Correction Symbols

Learn to Teach：Consolidation

Readings：（A）A Kind Man and His New Friend

（B）The Mixture Which is Britain

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