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1 NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS 1

Theme: Media 7

Listening One: A New Approach to News 7

Listening Two: Conversations about the News 11

Grammar: The Passive Voice 15

Style: Stating an Opinion 19

2 DO THE CRIME, SERVE THE TIME: TEEN BOOT CAMPS 23

Theme: Justice 28

Listening One: Do the Crime, Serve the Time 28

Listening Two: Are Boot Camps Effective？ 32

Grammar: Gerunds and Infinitives 40

Style: Expressing Some Disagreement 42

3 THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP 47

Theme: Medicine 52

Listening One: Is Healing a Lost Art？ 52

Listening Two: Body Talk—A Call-In Show 57

Grammar: Present Unreal Conditionals 62

Style: Interrupting Politely to Ask Questions 66

4 THE EYE OF THE STORM 69

Theme: Natural Disasters 74

Listening One: Preparing for a Hurricane 74

Listening Two: Hurricane Hunters 79

Grammar: Adjective Clauses 86

Style: Expressing Surprise and Shock 90

5 YOU WILL BE THIS LAND 93

Theme: Conservation 97

Listening One: Interview with a Medicine Priest 97

Listening Two: Ndakinna—A Poem 100

Grammar: Past Modals—Advisability in the Past 107

Style: Asking For and Giving Examples 111

6 IT'S BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE 115

Theme: Philanthropy 121

Listening One: Oseola McCarty—An Unusual Philanthropist 121

Listening Two: Please Donate or Volunteer—Public Service Announcements 124

Grammar: Tag Questions 129

Style: Prioritizing or Ranking Ideas 132

7 EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 137

Theme: Education 142

Listening One: Can You Learn EQ？ 142

Listening Two: Test Your EQ 146

Grammar: Direct and Indirect Speech 152

Style: Paraphrasing 154

8 JOURNEY TO THE RED PLANET 159

Theme: Space 164

Listening One: Journey to the Red Planet 164

Listening Two: Terraforming—How to Colonize Mars 168

Grammar: Phrasal Verbs 175

Style: Supporting an Argument 180

9 FINDING A NICHE: EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG IMMIGRANTS 185

Theme: Immigration 190

Listening One: A World within a School 190

Listening Two: Changing Trends of U.S. Immigration 193

Grammar: Present and Past—Contrasting Verb Tenses 199

Style: Hesitating in Response to a Question 204

10 TECHNOLOGY: A BLESSING OR A CURSE？ 209

Theme: Technology 213

Listening One: Noise in the City 213

Listening Two: Technology Talk 218

Grammar: Future Perfect and Future Progressive 224

Style: Expressing Frustration 227

Student Activities 231

Tapescript 237

Answer Key 269