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