Unit I College Life
Listening and Speaking: Introductions and Opening Conversations
Reading: Text A Advice That Can Help You Succeed on Campus
Text B Devlin’S Advice
Grammar Focus: Verb
Reading Skills: Guessing Unknown Words from the Context(1)
Writing: Note
Unit 2 Honesty
Listening and speaking: Asking Favors
Reading: Text A Honesty
Text B If I lose honesty l won’t be happy forever
Grammar FOCUS: Voice
Reading Skills: Guessing Unknown Words from the Context(2)
Writing: Notice
Unit 3 Sports
Listening and speaking: Sports
ReadiHg: Text A Liu Xiang: Olympics Weighs More Than World
Records
Text B The Olympic
Grammar Focus: The Subjunctive Mood
Reading Skill: Finding the Main Idea
Writing: Letter of Invitation
Unit 4 Celebrity
Listening and Speaking: Making an Appointment
Reading: Text A Zhang Yimou
Text B Leehom Wang
Grammar Focus: The Use of Infinitive
Reading Skills: Finding Details
Writing: Reply to an Invitation
Unit 5 Environment Protection
Listening and Speaking: The Weather
Reading: Text A Hard Bargaining
Text B Climate Change
Grammar Focus : Gerund
Reading Skills: Predicting Logical Contextual Sequence
Writing : Letters of Apologies
Unit 6 Family
Listening and Speaking: Saying Thank You
Reading: Text A Forgiving My Father
Text B Mr. Doherty Builds His Dream Life
Grammar Focus: Present and Past Participles Used as Attributive
Reading Skills: Discovering Markers of Cause and Effect
Writing : Letters of Consolation
Unit 7 Health
Listening and Speaking: Asking About Health
Reading: Text A Fast Foods
Text B Healthy Eating
Grammar Focus : Inversion
Reading Skills : Scanning
Writing : Letters of Complaints
Unit 8 Endeavourers Education
Listening and Speaking: Special Greetings
Reading: Text A Graduates' Pressure in Finding Jobs
Text B The Firm Helen Keller
Grammar Focus : Restric - tive Attributive Clause
Reading Skills : Skimming
Writing : Resume
New Words
Phrases and Expressions