Unit 1 Love
Text A A boy with a mission
Dialogue Romance is usually a mystery
Text B Hungry for your love
Guided writing Simple, compound, complex and compound-complex sentences
Grammar Punctuation I
Unit 2 Growing-up
Text A When Allie left home
Dialogue I wish I had a sister like yours
Text B It's not just how we play that matters
Guided writing Relations between sentences I—— combination, expansion and transition
Grammar Punctuation H
Unit 3 Culture and language
Text A Friendship in different cultures
Dialogue What do you like to do with your free time?
Text B Do the English understand English?
Guided writing Relations between sentences H——parallelism, subordination and contraction
Grammar Tag questions
Unit 4 Lifestyle
Text A How to install love
Dialogue Would you please teach me how to use the computer?
Text B My resignation
Guided writing Topic sentences
Grammar Phrasal verbs
Unit 5 Happiness
Text A The importance of just being there
Dialogue Why don 't you change your attitude and be happy?
Text B The terribly, tragically sad man
Guided writing Paragraph development by examples
Grammar Compound words
Unit 6 Comm
Unication
Text A Comm
Unicating without body language
Dialogue I ordered it through internet!
Text B Internet addiction——fact or fantasy?
Guided writing Paragraph development by comparison and contrast
Grammar The word order of adjectives
Unit 7 Psychoanalysis
Text A Young Hans
Dialogue Bird-watching on TV or in the mountains?
Text B Doctor of the mind
Guided writing Paragraph development by definition and classification
Grammar Noun clauses
Unit 8 A better world
Text A I imagine world peace
Dialogue Earth day
Text B The butterfly on the redwood
Guided writing Paragraph development by space and time
Grammar Adverbial clauses of time, place, concession and comparison
Unit 9 The most precious gift
Text A The most precious gift
Dialogue What is the most precious gift?
Text B Wendy's story
Guided writing Paragraph development by cause and effect
Granunar Adverbial clauses of cause, purpose and result
Unit 10 Popular science
Text A Ants are smarter than we think
Dialogue Does camel spit at people?
Text B How plants prepare for winter
Guided writing Concluding sentences
Grammar Subordinate clauses
Unit 11 Job and interview
Text A How to handle different types of interview
Dialogue I am qualified for the job I apply for
Text B What to wear for job interviews
Guided writing
Unity and coherence Ⅰ
Grammar Appositives and appositive clauses
Unit 12 Opinions
Text A No gains without pains —— or are there?
Dialogue Isn't it unfair, sir?
Text B So-called psychic a simple trickster
Guided writing
Unity and coherence Ⅱ
Grammar Parallelism
Appendix Glossary