CONTENTS 1
Unit One Travellers Tales 1
Unit Two How to Shine at a Job Interview 5
Unit Three The Dangers of Dumping Radioactive Waste 10
Unit Four Sharing a Home 15
Unit Five Family Matters 18
Unit Six Social Insects 23
Unit Seven A Life in the Day of Linda McCartney 28
Unit Eight When Mount St Helens Finally Erupted 31
Unit Nine The Diamond 34
Unit Ten Dicing With Death And Living With Statisties 38
Unit Eleven Schools With a Difference 41
Unit Twelve The Language of Advertising 46
Unit Thirteen Eating Out——Some Rules for Diners 50
Unit Fourteen Who s Afraid of the Silicon Chip? 53
Unit Fifteen A City Is Dying 58
Unit Sixteen Béd Rest Is Bad For You 62
Unit Seventeen Sting 67
Unit Eighteen Christmas 71
Unit Nineteen Maps 75
Unit Twenty Spain s Endangered Wildllfe 79