Contents 1
UNIT ONE 1
Text：Names and How They Began 3
Learn to Write：How to Write a Page in Your Exercise-books 10
Learn to Teach：Greetings and Introductions 12
Readings：（A）Twins 15
（B）Where Do Family Names Come From？ 16
UNIT TWO 18
Text：Building a Modern American Marriage 21
Learn to Write：Capitalization（1） 28
Learn to Teach：Beginning a Chat 30
Readings：（A）A Strange Bill 33
（B）Family Life 34
UNIT THREE 35
Text：The Nose on Your Face 38
Learn to Write：Capitalization（2） 48
Learn to Teach：Checking Attendance 49
Readings：（A）Animal Instincts 52
（B）Body Language 53
UNIT FOUR 55
Text：Lifein a Big City 58
Learn to W rite：Punctuation 65
Learn to Teach：Talking About Aims and Activities 67
Readings：（A）Rules for the Road 70
（B）Life in a Small Town 71
UNIT FIVE 74
Text：The Tramp and the Philosopher 78
Learn to Write：Comma（，）（1） 88
Learn to Teach：Using Revision in the Classroom 90
Readings：（A）Daddy’s Little Girl 92
（B）Hollywood 93
UNIT SIX 95
Text：A High School Teacher 98
Learn to Write：Comma（，）（2） 107
Learn to Teach：Arranging the Classroom 108
Readings：（A）Income Tax 112
（B）Proprietary School 113
UNIT SEVEN 115
Text：A Teenager Looks for Work 118
Learn to Write：Question Mark（？）and Exclamation Mark（！） 127
Learn to Teach：Consolidation 128
Readings：（A）An Eager Recruit 131
（B）Mr George Smith，Unemployed 131
UNITEIGHT 134
Text：Travel 137
Learn to Write：Semicolon（；）and Colon（：） 144
Learn to Teach：During the Lesson：Giving Instructions 145
Readings：（A）Who Was Telling the Truth？ 149
（B）London—Britain’s Lively Capital 150
UNIT NINE 152
Text：Dear Editors 156
Learn to Write：Quotation Marks（“”）and（‘’）（1） 165
Learn to Teach：Presenting New Language 167
Readings：（A）A Case of Selective Blindness 170
（B）Psychology Questionnaires 170
UNIT TEN 173
Text：Television：the Modern Wonder of Electronics 176
Learn to Write：Quotation Marks（“”）and（‘’）（2） 184
Learn to Teach：Encouragement/Confirmation 186
Readings：（A）A Patient Husband 189
（B）Television 189
UNIT ELEVEN 192
Text：The School That I’d Like 196
（British Schools：The Students’Views） 203
Learn to Write：Hyphen（-） 203
Learn to Teach：Readiness/Able to Participate 205
Readings：（A）King of the Jungle 208
（B）Education in Britain（Government System） 209
UNIT TWELVE 212
Text：Benjamin Franklin 216
Learn to Write：Apostrophe（’） 228
Learn to Teach：Pair and Group Work 230
Readings：（A）Too Ready to Help 233
（B）George Washington 234
UNITTHIRTEEN 237
Text：I Want a Wife 241
Learn to Write：Ellipses（ ），Dash（—）and Parentheses（） 250
Learn to Teach：Control/Discipline 252
Readings：（A）In a Barber’s Shop 256
（B）A Woman’s Place—Today 257
UNIT FOURTEEN 260
Text：The Language of Social Occasions 264
Learn to Write：Abbreviations and Contractions 274
Learn to Teach：Ending the Lesson 277
Readings：（A）April Fools’Day 280
（B）Communicatiion：Signs，Pictures and Letters 281
UNIT FIFTEEN 284
Text：Settling Down in England 288
Learn to Write：Numbers and Correction Symbols 297
Learn to Teach：Consolidation 299
Readings：（A）A Kind Man and His New Friend 303
（B）The Mixture Which is Britain 304
Glossary for“Learn to Write” 307