Towards Fluency 1
CO NTENTSTO THE TEACHER 1
ABOUT THIS COURSE 2
Basic Aims 2
For Whom the Course iS Intended 2
HoW Much Knowledge has been Assumed？ 2
Assumed Knowledge 3
A Description of the Course 4
Suggested Allocation of Time 7
Lesson 1：Guided and Free Conversation 7
HOW TO USE THIS COURSE 7
Lesson 2：Composition and Language Study 9
Dictations 9
Additional Reading Material 10
Additional Oral Practice 10
Additional Written Practice 10
Introductory Test leading to Part 1 11
PART 1 13
UNIT ONE：Instructions to the Student 13
1 Finding Fossil Man by ROBIN PLACE 14
2 Spare that Spider by T．H．GILLESPIE 18
3 Matterhorn Man by WALTER UNSWORTH 22
4 Seeing Hands by ERIC DE MAUNY 26
5 NO Room in the Ark by ALAN MOOREHEAD 30
6 From‘Out of the Air’by FIELDEN HUGHES 34
7 The Sporting Spirit by GEORGE ORWELL 38
8 Education by W．O．LESTER SMITH 42
9 Curiosities of Animal Life by MAURICE BURTON 46
10 Thoughts in the Wilderness by J．B．PRIESTLEY 51
UNIT TWO：Instructions to the Student 55
11 Spies in Britain by BERNARD NEWMAN 56
12 The Language of Hollywood by JAMES T．FARRELL 60
13 Thames Waters by ROGER PILKINGTON 64
14 How to Grow Old by BERTRAND RUSSELL 69
15 The Consumer Society and the Law by GORDON BARRIE AND AUBREY L．DIAMOND 74
16 The Search for the Earth’s Minerals by T．F．GASKELL 79
17 Learning to Live by BEATRIX TUDOR-HART 84
18 The Social Function of Science by J．D．BERNAL 89
19 English Social Differences by T．H．PEAR 93
20 Man，the Unknown by ALEXIS CARREL 98
UNIT THREE：Instructions to the Student 102
21 Science Makes Sense by RITCHIE CALDER 103
22 Window in the Sea by RALPH NADING HILL 108
23 The Stuff of Dreams by CHRISTOPHER EVANS 113
24 Going Out for a Walk by MAX BEERBOHM 118
25 The Snake by JOHN CROMPTON 123
26 Virtue and a Fast Gun by CARL FOREMAN 128
27 The Personality of Man by G．N．M．TYRRELL 133
28 A Countryman’s Creed by WILLIAM BEACH THOMAS 137
29 Pieces of Mind by C．E．M．JOAD 141
30 Adventures of Ideas by A．N．WHITEHEAD 146
Introductory Test leading to Part 2 150
PART 2 153
UNIT FOUR：Instructions to the Student 153
31 Non-auditory Effects of Noise by D．E．BROADBENT 154
32 The Past Life of the Earth by ERROL WHITE 159
33 The Raising of the‘Vasa’by ROY SAUNDERS 164
34 Patients and Doctors by KENNETH WALKER 169
35 The Pegasus Book of Inventors by EGON LARSEN 173
36 Exploring the Sea-floor by T．F．GASKELL 177
37 On Telling the Truth by HAROLD NICOLSON 182
38 The Sculptor Speaks by HENRN MOORE 187
39 Galileo Reborn by MICHAEL HOSKIN 192
40 Themes and Variations by ALDOUS HUXLEY 197
UNIT FIVE：Instructions to the Student 202
41 The Origin of Things by JULIUS E．LIPS 203
42 Journey Through Adolescence by DORIS ODLUM 208
43 Our Developing World by L．DUDLEY STAMP 213
44 The Backward Society by RAYMOND FROST 218
45 The Process of Ageing by ALEX COMFORT 223
46 The Menace of Urban Explosion by BARBARA WARD 228
47 Plato Today by R．-H．S．CROSSMAN 233
48 What Every Writer Wants by JOHN LE CARRE 238
49 Balloon Astronomy by PATRICK MOORE 243
50 British Canals by CHARLES HADFIELD 248
UNIT SIX：Instructions to the Student 253
51 Elephants by RICHARD CARRINGTON 254
52 The Earth Beneath Us by H．H．SWINNERTON 259
53 The Story of the French Foreign Legion by EDGARO’BALLANCE 264
54 Are There Strangers in Space？by ANTHONY MICHAELIS 270
55 Patterns of Culture by RUTHBENEDICT 275
56 The Age of Automation by LEON BAGRIT 281
57 Of Men and Galaxies by FRED HOYLE 286
58 Painting as a Pastime by WINSTON CHURCHILL 291
59 The Great Escape by NIGEL BUXTON 296
60 On Moral Courage by COMPTON MACKENZIE 302
Key to Test 308