PRELIMINARY LESSONS

Part One

Phonetics

Part Two

The Noun

The Pronoun

The Article

The Numeral

The Adjective

The Adverb

Part Three

The Present Indefinite Tense

The Present Continuous Tense

The Past Indefinite Tense

The Present Perfect Tense

The Future Indefinite Tense

UNIT ONE

Text The Learning of English

Proverb

Dialogue Effort

Grammar Modal Verbs(1)

Riddle

Reading Material A Few Things about Karl Marx

UNIT TWO

Text Early Rising

Proverb

Dialogue A Request

Grammar Modal Verbs(Ⅱ)

Riddle

Reading Material Monday Morning

UNIT THREE

Text The Seasons

Proverb

Dialogue Weather

Grammar The Link Verbs

Riddle

Reading Material The Climate of the United States

UNIT FOUR

Text"I Am Waiting for Your Beard!"

Proverb

Dialogue Having Things Done

Grammar Position of Adverbs of Manner

Position of Adjectives

Riddle

Reading Material Sixpence Worth of Trouble

Revision exercises(U.1—U.4)

UNIT FIVE

Text Laughing Gas

Proverb

Dialogue Toothache

Grammar Position of Adverbs of Frequency

Position of Adverbials of Time and Place

The Order of Adverbials of Manner,Place and Time

Riddle

Reading Material Mark Twainand the Old Man

UNIT SIX

Text The Sun

Proverb

Dialogue Comparing

Grammar Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

Riddle

Reading Material Who Is Stronger?

UNIT SEVEN

Text Frieda Was Ill

Proverb

Dialogue Health

Grammar The Past Continuous Tense

The Past Perfect Tense

The Future Perfect Tense

Riddle

Reading Material At the Optician's

UNIT EIGHT

Text At the Sunday School

Proverb

Dialogue Informal Introductions

Grammar Direct Object and Indirect Object

Riddle

Reading MaterialDavid and Goliath

Revision exercises(U.5—U.8)

SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS

1．How Many Inches Too Short?

2．Finding a Pen Friend

3．A Traveller's Tale

4．The Olympic Games

5．Mom's Birthdays

6．A Solution for Two Problems

7．History of Newspapers

8．Marco Polo

9．Christopher Columbus

10．Two Poems

(1)When Ⅰ Am Ⅲ

(2)The Lazy Boy

APPENDIXES

1．Grammatical Terms

2．A Table of the Chief Uses of Modal Verbs

3．Vocabulary