CONTENTS 5
LESSON ONE 5
Text: A LETTER TO A TEACHER 6
VOCABULARY: arrive,choose,major,enjoy,play,pay 12
GRAMMAR:The Simple Present Tense and the Present Continuous Tense 16
WRITING:Simple Sentence (Ⅰ) 22
LESSON TWO 27
Text:A TIP ON HOW TO LEARN ENGLISH 28
VOCABULARY:learn,talk,use,mean,work,lose 33
GRAMMAR:Future Forms 39
WRITING:Simple Sentence(Ⅱ) 46
LESSON THREE 51
Text:MY FIRST WORDS(Ⅰ) 52
VOCABULARY: shut,catch,make,happen,hold,follow 58
and the Present Perfect Continuous Ternse 63
GRAMMAR:The Simple Past Tense,the Present Perfect Tense 63
WRITING:Compound Sentence(Ⅰ) 69
LESSON FOUR 74
Text:MY FIRST WORDS(Ⅱ) 75
VOCABULARY:bring,seem,remember,forget,leave,feel 82
GRAMMAR:A Brief Summing-up of Tense and Aspect 87
WRITING:Compound Sentence(Ⅱ) 93
LESSON FIVE 98
Text:THE BEST ADVICE I'VE EVER HAD 99
VOCABULARY:point,like,hear,listen,know,find 106
GRAMMAR:The Sequence of Tenses 111
WRITING:Relative Clause 118
LESSON SIX 122
Text:REMEMBERING MY GRANDPARENTS 123
VOCABULARY:become,try,manage,read,spend,show 131
GRAMMAR:The Relative Clause and the Reiative Pronoun 136
WRITING:Time Clause 142
LESSON SEVEN 146
Text:THERE'S NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF 147
VOCABULARY:meet,used,call,see,look,watch 154
GRAMMAR:Participles Used as Adjectives 159
WRITING:Because-clause 166
LESSON EIGHT 170
Text:LEARNING BY DOING 171
VOCABULARY:want,need,start,begin,ask,worth 179
GRAMMAR:Participle Phrases Used as Adjectives 184
WRITING:Noun Clause 191
LESSON NINE 195
Text:TRANSpORTATION AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 197
VOCABULARY:depend,form,provide,offer,build,visit 206
GRAMMAR:Participles and Participle Phrases Used as Adverbials(Ⅰ) 211
WRITING:If-clause 217
LESSON TEN 221
Text:ON VISITING BOOKSHOPS 222
VOCABULARY:buy,sell,enter,end,realize,attract 230
GRAMMAR:Participles and Participle Phrases Used as Adverbials (Ⅱ) 235
WRITING:Although-clause 241
LESSON ELEVEN 245
Text:THE GLORY OFTHE OLYMPIC GAMES 247
VOCABULARY:wonder,add,wear,win,remind,express 256
GRAMMAR:The Gerund and the Gerundial Phrase (Ⅰ) 261
WRITING:So that-clause 267
LESSON TWELVE 272
Text:READING IS HERE TO STAY 274
VOCABULARY:apply,appear,believe,require,supply,explain 281
GRAMMAR:The Gerund and the Gerundial Phrase(Ⅱ) 286
WRITING:Revision of Subordinate Clauses 293
VOCABULARY LIST 297