CONTENTS
UNlT ONE
Text: The Glorious Messiness of English
UNlT TWO
Text: A Season for Hymning and Hawing
Further Reading: Fall Comes in on Roller
Skates
UNlT THREE
Text: Farewell, My Unlovely
Further Reading: The City
UNlT FOUR
Text: Music in the Modem World
Further Reading: What to Listen for in Music
UNlT FlVE
Text: Our Picture of the Universe
Further Reading: Roaming the Cosmos
UNlT SIX
Text: The Substitute Teacher
Further Reading: My Posse Don t Do
Homework
UNlT SEVEN
Text: Allaying the Fear of the New
Technology
Further Reading: Staying Afloat
UNlT ElGHT
Text: What Your Body Language Says About
You
Further Reading: How to Read Body Language
UNlT NlNE
Text: The Youngest and Brightest Thing
Around
Further Reading: New Babies Are Smarter than
You Think
UNlT TEN
Text: 2001: The World Our Students Will
Enter
Further Reading: A Question of Degrees: New
Possibilities for Higher Education
APPENDlX l
Vocabulary
APPENDlX n
Phrases and Expressions
APPENDlX III
Key to Exercises