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PRELIMINARY READING PASSAGE 13
LESSON 1-I am writing a letter 14
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-The infinitive 16
The present tense(indicative) 17
LESSON 2-Question and answer 18
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Interrogatives 20
Negatives 21
LESSON 3-How much and how many? 22
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-The plural of nouns 24
Quantity 25
LESSON 4-A friend meets the family 26
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Possession 28
Cardinal and ordinal numbers 29
LESSON 5-They met at four o'clock 30
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Simple past tense 32
What is the time ? 33
LESSON 6-At the inn 34
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-The present perfect-The past continuous 36
The pluperfect 37
LESSON 7-When shall I see you again? 38
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Comparative and superlative of adjectives 40
The simplefuture-The immediatefuture-The future perfect 41
LESSON 8-On a bus 42
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Adverbs 44
Contractions and end questions 45
LESSON 9-At the zoo 46
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-The conditional-The conditional perfect 48
Impersonal verbs 49
LESSON 10-At the railway station 50
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Some tenses of"to be able" 52
Contractions 53
LESSON 11-A talk about the past 54
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Reflexive pronouns 56
Reciprocal pronouns 57
LESSON 12-The holidays 58
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Relative pronouns 60
The seasons,the days,the months 61
LESSON 13-At Christmas 62
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-The imperative 64
Relative pronouns again,special uses 65
LESSON 14-In a book shop 66
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Interrogative pronouns and adjectives 68
The present participle and gerund 69
LESSON 15-In the country 70
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Compounds 72
Prepositions of place 73
LESSON 16-On the telephone 74
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-More negatives 76
Expressions of time 77
LESSON 17-On the mountain 78
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Indefinite adjectives and pronouns 80
Possession 81
LESSON 18-An interview 82
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Some uses of"one" 84
Direct and indirect object 85
LESSON 19-At the airport 86
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Verbs of motion 88
Omission of"the" 89
LESSON 20-On the farm 90
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Active and passive 92
Compound verbs 93
LESSON 21-In the department store(Part 1) 94
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Some suffixes 96
"To say"and"to tell" 97
LESSON 22-In the department store(Part 2) 98
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Length,breadth,height 100
Time and distance 101
LESSON 23-In a garden 102
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Some prefixes 104
More questions and answers 105
LESSON 24-They cook a meal 106
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Verbs of perception 108
Impersonal and passive forms 109
LESSON 25-At the travel office 110
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-"To be able" 112
"To be able"again 113
LESSON 26-By the sea 114
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Necessity,command 116
Plural subject,plural object 117
LESSON 27-In town 118
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Wishes,needs 120
"To get"some common uses 121
LESSON 28-At the theatre 122
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-The present participle:gerunds 124
More uses of"to have" 125
LESSON 29-At the garage 126
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-The partitive article 128
Object pronouns 129
LESSON 30-At the hospital 130
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Indefinite adjectives and pronouns 132
How these words are used 133
LESSON 31-At the post-office 134
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-More verbs in use 136
Verbs again 137
LESSON 32-An old sailor remembers 138
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-To have something done 140
How"to do"and"to make"are used 141
LESSON 33-Renting a flat 142
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Gender 144
Some more verbs 145
LESSON 34-The fairy story 146
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Direct speech and indirect speech 148
To need:a useful verb 149
LESSON 35-At a museum 150
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Another verb pattern 152
The subjunctive 153
LESSON 36-Out of bounds 154
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Punctuation 156
Another verb pattern 157
LESSON 37-What we saw 158
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Nations and peoples 160
More question words 161
LESSON 38-A casual conversation 162
LESSON 39-A tour in Italy 164
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-Great Britain 166
Italy 167
LESSON 40-Getting ready 168
PICTORIAL GRAMMAR-A table for revision 170
Some irregular verbs 171
SOME PASSAGESFROM WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 172
ENGLAND,from"King Richard the Second" 172
TO-MORROW,AND TO-MORROW...,from"Macbeth" 172
THOU KNOW'ST THE MASK OF NIGHT,from"Romeo and Juliet" 173
TO BE,OR NOT TO BE...,from"Hamlet" 174
THE ENGLISH SONNET 175
William Shakespeare-FULL MANY A GLORIOUS MORNING 175
William Shakespeare-LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE 175
Wiuiam Wordsworth-UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE 176
Elizabeth Barrett Browning-HOW DO I LOVE THEE? 176
Oscar Wilde-ON APPROACHING ITALY 177
ENGLISH PROSE 178
Charles Dickens-LONDON IN FOG,from"Bleak House 178
Robert Louis Stevenson-CHILDREN,from"Virginibus Puerisque" 179
Charlotte Brontё-AN ENGLISH COUNTRY HOME,from"The Professor" 180
AMERICAN PROSE 181
MarkTwain-PAINTINGAFENCE,from"TheAdventures ofTom Sawyer" 181
ENGLISH HISTORIC PASSAGES 183
SPEECH OF KING ETHELBERT WHEN RECEIVING ST.AUGUSTINE, 183
from Bede's"Ecclesiastical History of the English People" 183
SPEECH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH AT TILBURY,AUGUST 9,1588 184
John Donne-FOR WHOM THEBELL TOLLS,from"Devotions upon Emergent Occasions" 185
AMERICAN HISTORIC PASSAGES 186
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,IN CONGRESS,JULY 4,1776 186
Abraham Lincoln-ADDRESS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG,NOVEMBER 19,1863 187
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 188