UNIT ONE 1
Contents 1
Text:Not Poor，Just Broke 3
Learn to Write:How to Write English Sentences 11
(General Introduction) 12
Learn to Teach:Metalanguage 12
Readings:(A)Jokes 16
(B)Smoking and Cancer 17
UNIT TWO 20
Text:The Consuming Passion 23
Comma Faults/ 30
Run-on Sentences 30
Sentence Fragments/ 30
Learn to Write:Sentence Form(1) 30
Learn to Teach:Classroom ？(Gestures) 33
Readings:(A)A Lesson in Ma？ 36
(B)The Career Woman 36
UNIT THREE 38
Text:Why Do They Want to Do It? 41
Learn to Write:Sentence Form(2) 53
Shifted Construction/ 53
Mixed Construction 53
Learn to Teach:Teaching Vocabulary 55
Readings:(A)Why Can t I Read with These Glasses? 57
(B)Big Money，Hard Job 58
UNIT FOUR 61
Text:A Farewell Letter 64
Learn to Write:Sentence Form(3) 70
Parallelism(1) 70
Learn to Teach:Teaching Reading 73
Readings:(A)Can You Explain Why? 78
(B)Hitler s Last Days 78
UNIT FIVE 81
Text:PIAGET:The Development of the Child s Mind 83
Learn to Write:Sentence Form(4) 90
Parallelism(2) 90
Learn to Teach:Listening Skills 93
Readings:(A)Asking for Trouble 95
(B)Animal Learning:Pavlov and Beyond 96
UNIT SIX 98
Text:Alfred Nobel—A Man of Contrasts 101
Learn to Write:Subject-Verb Agreement(1) 111
Learn to Teach:Writing Skills 114
Readings:(A)Is He Being More Generous? 117
(B)Blindness and Louis Braille 117
UNIT SEVEN 121
Text:A New Lease on Life:Education for Mature Women 124
Learn to Write:Subiect-Verb Agreement(2) 134
Learn to Teach:Choral Repetition 137
(B)Art of Learning at Leisure 141
Readings:(A)A Happy Marriage 141
UNIT EIGHT 145
Text:Open Admissions and the Inward“I” 148
Learn to Write:Pronouns(1) 155
Pronoun Reference 155
Learn to Teach:Consolidation 158
Readings:(A)“I Pay for You All” 160
(B)SQ3R—How the Pros Study-Read 161
UNIT NINE 165
Text:A Merry Christmas... 167
Learn to Write:Pronouns(2) 180
Pronoun Case 180
Learn to Teach:Oral Production 185
Readings:(A)Have the Police Taken Your Driving LicenceAway，Too? 188
(B)Public Holidays 188
UNIT TEN 194
Text:A Remembrance of Letter Writing 198
Learn to Write:Modifiers(1) 206
Learn to Teach:Pronunciation 209
Readings:(A)The Policeman and the Thief 212
(B)Letter Writing 213
UNIT ELEVEN 218
Text:An Eclectic Approach 221
Learn to Write:Modifiers(2) 229
Learn to Teach:Teaching Stress 231
Readings:(A)A Strange Request 233
(B)Teaching Pronunciation Successfully 234
UNIT TWELVE 237
Text:That Restless Feeling 240
Learn to Write:Coordination and Subordination(1) 253
Learn to Teach:Teaching Intonation 256
Readings:(A)Helping Hands 258
(B)Thumbing a Lift 260
UNIT THIRTEEN 262
Text:To Be or Not to Be a Vegetarian 265
Learn to Write:Coordination and Subordination(2) 274
Learn to Teach:Correcting(Oral Work) 277
Readings:(A)Keeping Up with the Joneses 279
(B)A Food-Lover s Way to Eat and Be Fit 281
UNIT FOURTEEN 285
Text:Silence is Golden 287
Learn to Write:Wordiness 296
Learn to Teach:Eliciting 299
Readings:(A)Lame Duck 302
(B)Thomas Alva Edison 303
UNIT FIFTEEN 308
Text:Taste 311
Learn to Write:Diction 322
Learn to Teach:Consolidation 325
Readings:(A)Dark Horse 328
(B)Parents Must Make Up Their Minds 330
Glossary for“Learn to Write” 333