Unit One Traveling 1
Part One Listening Comprehension 2
Part Two Reading Comprehension:Guessing Word Meaning from Context 4
Part Three Intensive Reading:40 Days in the Scandinavian Wildemess 10
Part Four Oral Practice:Traveling 20
Part Five Writing:General Writing—Diction 23
Practical Writing—Arrival/Departure Record 25
Unit Two Belonging to a Group 29
Part One Listening Comprehension 30
Part Two Reading Comprehension:Punctuation and Connectives 34
Part Three Intensive Reading:Group Mind 39
Part Four Oral Practice:Societies and Associations 48
Part Five Writing:General Writing—Denotation,Connotation and Collocation 51
Practical Writing—Application Form 52
Unit Three Gratitude 59
Part One Listening Comprehension 60
Part Two Reading Comprehension:Guessing Word Meaning from Context(2) 63
Part Three Intensive Reading:The New Discovery of Thank-you 68
Part Four Oral Practice:Family 79
Part Five Writing:General Writing—How to Avoid Wordiness and Redundancy 82
Practical Writing—Personal Letters(Ⅰ)-Family Letter 84
Unit Four Music 87
Part One Listening Comprehension 88
Part Two Reading Comprehension:Key Word Sporing 92
Part Three Intensive Reading:Stay,for the Music 96
Part Four Oral Practice:Music 107
Part Five Writing:General Writing—Pattems of Organization 109
Practical Writing—Letters of Thanks 113
Unit Five Globalization 117
Part One Listening Comprehension 118
Part Two Reading Comprehension:Five Ws and One H 120
Part Three Intensive Reading:What's Globalization 126
Part Four Oral Practice:Keeping in Touch with Friends and Family 136
Part Five Writing:General Writing—General-to-Specific and Specific-to-General 139
Practical Writing—E-mail 141
Unit Six History 145
Part One Listening Comprehension 146
Part Two Reading Comprehension:Comprehension through Inference 149
Part Three Intensive Reading:Ping-pong Diplomacy 155
Part Four Oral Practice:History and Heroes 166
Part Five Writing:General Writing—Degrees of Importance 168
Practical Writing—Book Report 170
Unit Seven Food and Health 173
Part One Listening Comprehension 174
Part Two Reading Comprehension:Recognizing the Author's Tone 177
Part Three Intensive Reading:Junk Food vs.Healthy Nutrition for Children 183
Part Four Oral Practice:Table Manners 193
Part Five Writing:General Writing—Description,Narration and Classification 197
Practical Writing—Menus 199
Unit Eight Mass Media 205
Part One Listening Comprehension 206
Part Two Reading Comprehension:Identifying the Writer's Purpose 209
Part Three Intensive Reading:The Impact of Media Violence 214
Part Four Oral Practice:Movies 224
Part Five Writing:General Writing—Ways of Organizing Paragraphs 226
Practical Writing—Posters 229
Glossary 231