Contents 1
Unit One Popular English selection(Ⅰ) 1
Lesson One The flrst four minutes 1
Lesson Two She lived and 91 others died 6
Lesson Three Letter in the wallet 14
Lesson Four How New York became America s largest city 21
Lesson Five Runaways;2000 a year hit the road 27
Lesson Six How to be an Alien 34
Unit Two A guide to English Practical Readings 39
Lesson Seven Reports 39
Lesson Eight The language of advertising 45
Lesson Nine Using video in the language classroom 51
Unit Theree Science and Technology English 61
Lesson Ten Who smokes? 61
Lesson Eleven Ordinary aspirin is truly a wonder drug 67
Lesson Twelve Test your nutrition IQ 73
Lesson Thirteen What is technical English(Ⅰ) 80
Lesson Forteen What is technical English(Ⅱ) 85
Unit Four Newspapers and Periodicals 91
Lesson Fifteen A．How do people feel about jobs? 91
B．The newspaper as Go—between 93
Lesson Sixteen Speaking easy ( 98
Lesson Seventeen The royal rebel(Ⅰ) 105
Lesson Eighteen The royal rebel(Ⅱ) 112
Unit Five Popular English Selection(Ⅱ) 118
Lesson Nineteen Marriage advertising in India s Sunday newspapers… 118
Lesson Twenty Modern American Society in flux 126
Lesson Twenty—one 138
On becoming an urban English teacher 138
Key to Practice 148