UNIT 1 Messages 1
PART A Listening Activities 1
Conversations Telephone Messages for Mr Dawson 1
PART B Speaking Activities 7
Pair Work 7
PART C Listen and Relax 9
A Song 9
PART D Further Listening 10
Conversations Important Messages 10
A Conversation Are You Ringing About the Party? 12
PART E Home Listening 13
Conversations Can I Take a Message? 13
A Conversation It's Martin Speaking 14
UNIT 2 Experiences 16
PART A Listening Activities 16
A Passage Dr Coleman's Sabbatical Leave 16
PART B Speaking Activities 20
1．Pair Work 20
2．Communicative Function:Describing Personal Experiences 21
PART C Listen and Relax 24
Famous Sayings 24
PART D Further Listening 25
A Story A Funny Thing Happened to Me 25
A Passage My Experience in a Restaurant 27
PART E Home Listening 28
Conversation 1 A Frightening Experience 28
Conversation 2 What Happened? 30
UNIT 3 Biography 31
PART A Listening Activities 31
A Passage The Life Story of Ernest Hemingway 31
PART B Speaking Activities 35
Pair Work 35
PART C Listen and Relax 40
Quotations 40
PART D Further Listening 40
Passage 1 Dr Chu and His Superconductor 40
Passage 2 Pablo Picasso 42
PART E Home Listening 44
Passage 1 Walt Disney 44
Passage 2 Jane Austen 45
UNIT 4 A Survey 47
PART A Listening Activities 47
A Conversation Sleeping Habits 47
PART B Speaking Activities 52
1．Pair Work 52
2．Communicative Function:Talking About Dreams and the Interpretation of Dreams 52
PART C Listen and Relax 55
A Song 55
PART D Further Listening 56
Passage 1 Cats Are Creatures of Habit 56
Passage 2 Is the Sleepwalker Actually Awake or Asleep? 58
PART E Home Listening 59
Passage 1 What Your Dreams Tell You 59
Passage 2 A Poll 60
UNIT 5 Changing Lifestyle 62
PART A Listening Activities 62
Conversations A New Way of Life 62
PART B Speaking Activities 66
1．Pair Work 66
2．Discussion Questions 67
PART C Listen and Relax 68
A Poem 68
PART D Further Listening 69
Passage 1 Farmers'Life in the US 69
Passage 2 The Healthiest Lifestyle in the World 71
PART E Home Listening 72
A Forum How to Relieve Stress? 72
A Conversation A Different Life 74
UNIT 6 Home Improvement 76
PART A Listening Activities 76
A Conversation Do-It-Yourself 76
PART B Speaking Activities 80
1．Pair Work 80
2．Communicative Function:Talking About Home Improvement 81
PART C Listen and Relax 85
Humorous Stories 85
PART D Further Listening 86
A Conversation I Believe in Do-It-Yourself 86
A Compound Dictation 87
PART E Home Listening 88
Passage 1 Repairing the Lawn Mower 88
Passage 2 Designer's Top Ten 89
UNIT 7 Invention 90
PART A Listening Activities 90
A Passage The Invention of Spectacles 90
PART B Speaking Activities 94
Pair Work 94
PART C Listen and Relax 97
Tongue Twisters 97
A Passage Contact Lenses 97
A Compound Dictation 99
PART E Home Listening 100
Passage 1 Chewing Gum 100
Passage 2 The Invention of the Zipper 101
UNIT 8 Friendship 103
PART A Listening Activities 103
A Conversation Long Distance Friendship 103
PART B Speaking Activities 108
1．Pair Work 108
2．Communicative Function:Talking About Friends and Friendships 108
PART C Listen and Relax 111
A Song 111
PART D Further Listening 112
A Compound Dictation 112
A Passage An Act of Friendship 113
PART E Home Listening 115
A Conversation What Is Friendship? 115
A Passage To Have a Friend,Be a Friend 116
UNIT 9 Science 118
PART A Listening Activities 118
A Passage Mysteries of the Sea 118
PART B Speaking Activities 122
Pair Work 122
PART C Listen and Relax 124
Quotations 124
PART D Further Listening 125
Passage 1 How Animals Protect Themselves 125
Passage 2 The Resources of the Sea 126
PART E Home Listening 127
A Passage Human Beings,Animals and Insects 127
A Compound Dictation 129
UNIT 10 A Story 130
PART A Listening Activities 130
A Story Things We Never Said 130
PART B Speaking Activities 135
1．Pair Work 135
2．Communicative Function:Talking About Regrets 136
PART C Listen and Relax 138
A Joke 138
PART D Further Listening 139
A Compound Dictation 139
A Story Young Darwin 140
PART E Home Listening 141
A Story Surviving a Plane Crash（Part Ⅰ） 141
A Story Surviving a Plane Crash（Part Ⅱ） 143
TEST 1 144
TEST 2 153