Introductory Test leading to Part 1 1
PART 1 3
Towards Fluency 4
CONTENTSTO THE TEACHER 4
UNIT ONE：Instructions to the Student 4
ABOUT THIS COURSE 5
Basic Aims 5
For Whom the Course is Intended 5
How Much Knowledge has been Assumed？ 5
Assumed Knowledge 5
1 Finding Fossil Man by ROBIN PLACE 5
A Description of the Course 7
2 Spare that Spider byT．H．GILLESPIE 9
3 Matterhorn Man by WALTER UNSWORTH 13
Lesson 1：Guided and Free Conversation 14
Suggested Allocation of Time 14
HOW TO USE THIS COURSE 14
Additional Reading Material 16
Additional Oral Practice 16
Dictations 16
Lesson 2：Composition and Language Study 16
Additional Written Practice 17
4 SeeingHands byERIC DE MAUNY 17
5 No Room in the Ark by ALAN MooREHEAD 21
6 From‘Out of the Air’by FIELDEN HUGHES 25
7 The Sporting Spirit by GEORGE ORWELL 29
8 Education by W．O．LESTER SMITH 33
9 Curiosities of Animal Life by MAURICE BURTON 37
10 Thoughts in the Wilderness by J．B．PRIESTLEY 41
UNIT TWO：Instructions to the Student 46
11 Spies in Britain by BERNARD NEWMAN 47
12 The Language of Hollywood by JAMES T．FARRELL 51
13 Thames Waters by ROGER PILKINGTON 55
14 How to Grow Old by BERTRAND RUSSELL 59
15 The Consumer Society and the Law by GORDON BARRIE AND AUBREY L．DIAMOND 63
16 The Search for the Earth’s Minerals by T．F．GASKELL 67
17 Learning to Live by BEATRIX TUDOR-HART 71
18 The Social Function of Science by J．D．BEtRNAL 75
19 English Social Differences by T．H．PEAR 79
20 Man，the Unknown by ALEXIS CARREL 83
UNIT THREE：Instructions to the Student 88
21 Science Makes Sense by RITCHIE CALDER 89
22 Window in the Sea by RALPH NADING HILL 93
23 The Stuff of Dreams by CHRISTOPHER EVANS 97
24 Going Out for a Walk by MAX BEERBOHM 101
25 The Snake by JOHN CROMPTON 105
26 Virtue and a Fast Gun by CARL FOREMAN 109
27 The Personality of Man by G．N．M．TYRRELL 113
28 A Countryman’s Creed by WILLIAM BEACH THOMAS 117
29 Pieces ofMind by C．E．M．JOAD 121
30 Adventures of Ideas by A．N．WHITEHEAD 125
Introductory Test leading to Part 2 129
PART 2 133
UNIT FOUR：Instructions to the Student 134
31 Non-auditory Effects of Noise by D．E．BROADBENT 135
32 The Past Life ofthe Earth by ERROL WHITE 140
33 The Raising ofthe‘Vasa’by RoY SAUNDERS 145
34 Patients and Doctors by KENNETH WALKER 150
35 The Pegasus Book of Inventors by EGON LARSEN 154
36 Exploring the Sea-floor by T．F．GASKELL 158
37 On Telling the Truth by HAROLD NICOLSON 162
38 The Sculptor Speaks by HENRY MOORE 166
39 Galileo Reborn by MICHAEL HOSKIN 170
40 Themes and Variations by ALDOUS HUXLEY 175
UNIT FIVE：Instructions to the Student 180
41 The Origin of Things by JULIUS E．LIPS 181
42 Journey Through Adolescence by DORIS ODLUM 185
43 Our Developing World by L．DUDLEY STAMP 189
44 The Backward Society by RAYMOND FROST 193
45 The Process of Ageing by ALEX COMFORT 197
46 The Menace of Urban Explosion by BARBARA WARD 201
47 Plato Today by R．H．S．CROSSMAN 206
48 What Every Writer Wants by JOHN LE CARR？ 210
49 Balloon Astronomy by PATRICK MOORE 214
50 British Canals by CHARLES HADFIELD 218
UNIT SIX：Instructions to the Student 223
51 Elephants by RICHARD CARRINGTON 224
52 The Earth Beneath Us by H．H．SWINNERTON 228
53 The Story of the French Foreign Legion by EDGAR O’BALLANCE 233
54 Are There Strangers in Space？by ANTHONY MICHAELIS 238
55 Patterns of Culture by RUTH BENEDICT 243
56 The Age of Automation by LEON BAGRIT 248
57 Of Men and Galaxies by FRED HOYLE 252
58 Painting as a Pastime by WINSTON CHURCHILL 256
59 The Great Escape by NIGEL BUXTON 261
60 On Moral Courage by COMPTON MACKENZIE 266