Unit One

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Greetings and Introductions

Intensive Reading Introduce Myself

Phonetics

Grammar Parts of Speech

Practical Writing Student Cards

Fast Reading A Boy or a Girl

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Unit Two

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Watching TV

Intensive Reading Television

Phonetics

Grammar Nouns

Practical Writing Greeting Cards

Fast Reading You Were My Classmate

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Unit Three

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Talking about Sports and Health

Intensive Reading Keeping Healthy

Phonetics

Grammar Articles

Practical Writing Notes

Fast Reading Teaching Her a Lesson

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Unit Four

Listening Comprehension

Speaking At a Restaurant

Intensive Reading American Eating Culture

Phonetics

Grammar Adjectives and Adverbs

Practical Writing Notices

Fast Reading A Cat and Rats

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Unit Five

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Talking about Relatives

Intensive Reading Families in the Future

Phonetics

Grammar Prepositions

Practical Writing Letters

Fast Reading Why Was the Doctor Late

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Unit Six

Listening Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

Practical Writing

Unit Seven

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Asking the Way

Intensive Reading A Child's Angel

Phonetics

Grammar Verbs

Practical Writing E-mail

Fast Reading In the Telephone Directory

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Unit Eight

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Talking about Weather

Intensive Reading Greenwich and Greenwich Time

Phonetics

Grammar Modal Verbs

Practical Writing Letters of Introduction

Fast Reading The Indian Who Could Forecast the Weather

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Unit Nine

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Making an Invitation

Intensive Reading Youth

Grammar Numerals

Practical Writing Letters of Invitation

Fast Reading What Would Happen

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Unit Ten

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Expressing Surprise

Intensive Reading Pearl

Grammar Members of the Sentence

Practical Writing Invitation Cards

Fast Reading An Interview

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Unit Eleven

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Expressing Thanks

Intensive Reading The Information Age

Grammar Kinds of the Sentences

Practical Writing Letters of Appreciation

Fast Reading Not to Be Taken Out

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Unit Twelve

Listening Comprehension

Practical Writing

Unit Thirteen

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Apologizing

Intensive Reading Generation Gap

Grammar The Simple Present Tense

Practical Writing Letters of Apology

Fast Reading A Different Kind of Audience

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Unit Fourteen

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Restaurant Reservation

Intensive Reading A History of American Food

Grammar The Simple Past Tense

Practical Writing Letters of Asking

Fast Reading Six Taboos at Table

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Unit Fifteen

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Congratulations

Intensive Reading Are You Caught in the Web?

Grammar The Present Continuous Tense and the Past Continues Tense

Practical Writing Letters of Congratulations

Fast Reading I,You and She

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Unit Sixteen

Listening Comprehension

Speaking At the Supermarket

Intensive Reading Tornado

Grammar The Simple Future Tense and the Past Future Tense

Practical Writing Posters

Fast Reading At the Supermarket

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Unit Seventeen

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Sending a Letter

Intensive Reading Halloween

Grammar The Present Perfect Tense

Practical Writing Deliver a Speech

Fast Reading Post Haste

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Unit Eighteen

Listening Comprehension

Speaking

Unit Nineteen

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Making an Arrangement

Intensive Reading White-collar and Blue-collar in America

Grammar The Past Perfect Tense

Practical Writing Letters of Consolation

Fast Reading The Choice of Word

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Unit Twenty

Listening Comprehension

Speaking At a Hospital

Intensive Reading The Different Faces of Medicine

Grammar The Active Voice and the Passive Voice

Practical Writing Memo

Fast Reading A Heavy Sleeper

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Unit Twenty-one

Listening Comprehension

Speaking At the Library

Intensive Reading Learning a Foreign Language

Grammar Direct Speech and Indirect Speech(Ⅰ)

Practical Writing Sentence Making and Rearranging

Fast Reading An Old Soldier

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Unit Twenty-two

Listening Comprehension

Speaking At a Hotel

Intensive Reading The Olympic Games

Grammar Direct Speech and Indirect Speech(Ⅱ)

Practical Writing Diaries

Fast Reading A General's Teeth

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Unit Twenty-three

Listening Comprehension

Speaking Talking about Traveling

Intensive Reading Tsunamis

Grammar Punctuation Marks

Practical Writing The Topic Sentence Composition

Fast Reading Mrs.Hilton

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Unit Twenty-four

Listening Comprehension

Practical Writing

Appendix Vocabulary

References