Unit 1 Ways of Learning
Part Ⅰ Listening Task
Listening Practice
Part Ⅱ Reading Task
Text A Learning Chinese-Styls
Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task
Text B Children and Money
Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice
Speaking practice: Group Discussion Practical Writing: Writing Notices
Unit 2 Values
Part Ⅰ Listening Task
Listening Practice
Part Ⅱ Reading Task
Text A A Life Full of Riches
Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task
Text B The Man is America Down Home
Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice
Speaking Practice: Group Discussion
Essay Writing: Bill Gates as a Great Philanthropist
Unit 3 The Generation Gap
Part Ⅰ Listening Task
Listening Practice
Part Ⅱ Reading Task
Text A Father Knows Better
Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task
Text B Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old
Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice
Speaking Practice: Acting out the Play
Practical Writing: Writing Posters
Unit 4 The Virtual World
Part Ⅰ Listening Task
Listening Practice
Part Ⅱ Reading Task
Text A A Virtual Life
Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task
Text B Mothers Mad about the Internuts
Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice
Speaking Practice: Group Discussion
Practical Writing: Writing Email Messages
Test Yourself (Units 1-4)
Unit 5 Overcoming Obstacles
Part Ⅰ Listening Task
Listening Practice
Part Ⅱ Reading Task
Text A True Height
Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task
Text B Fourteen Steps
Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice
Speaking Practice: Group Discussion
Essay writing: The Change in Hal Manwaring
Unit 6 Women Half the Sky
Part Ⅰ Listening Task
Listening Practice
Part Ⅱ Reading Task
Text A A Woman Can Learn Anything a Man Can
Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task
Text B Beginning Anew
Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice
Speaking Practice: Group Discussion
Practical Writing: Devising Questionnaires
Unit 7 Learning about English
Part Ⅰ Listening Task
Listening Practice
Part Ⅱ Reading Task
Text A The Glorious Messiness of English
Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task
Text B The Role of English in the 21st Century
Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice
Speaking Practice: Group Discussion
Essay Writing: Information Transfer
Unit 8 Protecting Our Environment
Part Ⅰ Listening Task
Listening Practice
Part Ⅱ Reading Task
Text A A Fable for Tomorrow
Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task
Text B Excerpts from Silent Spring
Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice
Speaking Practice: Mock Debate
Essay Writing My Thoughts on Environmental Protection
Test Youreslf(Units 5-8)
Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exereises in Parts Ⅰ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ
Appendix Ⅱ Tape Scripts and Key to Test Papers
Appendix Ⅲ Glossary