PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
A BRIEF GUIDE TO ENGLISH FOR CHINESE SPEAKERS
ABOUT THE UNIT TITLES
MAJOR CHINESE CHARACTERS
1. OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING weather
2. GETTING TO KNOW YOU introductions
3. I AM SO EASILY ASSIMILATED culture
4. FLYING HIGH air travel
5. BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME
cash
6. IF I WERE A RICH MAN banking and credit
7. A HOLE IN THE GROUND transportation
8. YOU''RE THE CREAM IN MY COFFEE food shopping
9. TEA FOR TWO eating out
10. A ROOM SOMEWHERE housing
11. BUTTON UP YOUR OVERCOAT health
12. HAPPY TALK phone
13. AS TIME GOES BY computer
14. I COULD WRITE A BOOK letter writing
15. TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME sports
16. MAC THE KNIFE crime
17. FRIENDSHIP conferences -- I
18. BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE conferences -- II
a. A PUZZLER POEM pronunciation fun
b. ENGLISH IS TOUGH STUFF also. but harder
APPENDIX I: GLOSSARY OF SELECTED COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY
APPENDIX II: GLOSSARY OF SELECTED SPORTS TERMINOLOGY
KEY TO EXERCISES