The English Alphabet 1
Unit 1 Family 2
Dialogue Hello！ 3
Text A Family Tree 4
Text B Black's Family 8
Phonetics Syllables I 10
Word Stress 11
Grammar Personal Pronouns 12
Basic Sentence Patterns 13
Unit 2 House 16
Dialogue Welcome to My House! 17
Text A Lucy's Flat 19
Text B Bill's Home 22
Phonetics Pronunciation of"-s/-es"at the End of Plurals 24
Grammar "There be"Structure 24
Countable＆Uncountable Nouns 25
Unit 3 Daily Routines 30
Dialogue What Time Do You Get Up? 31
Text A Paul's Work 32
Text B My Life in Beijing 36
Phonetics Pronunciation of"-s/-es"of Singular Verb Forms in the Present Tense 38
Intonation Ⅰ 38
Grammar Articles 39
The Simple Present Tense 41
Unit 4 Food and Drink 46
Dialogue Ordering Food 47
Text A Food and Drink 48
Text B Places to Eat at 52
Phonetics Syllables Ⅱ 54
Grammar Time Prepositions 56
Adverbs of Frequency 56
Unit 5 Leisure 60
Dialogue What Are You Going to Do This Evening? 61
Text A Movies 63
Text B Leisure at Home 66
Phonetics Reading Rules of Consonant Clusters：/sp/,/st/and/sk/ 68
Reading Rules of"c"and"y" 69
Grammar The Present Continuous Tense 69
Special Questions 71
Unit 6 Travel 74
Dialogue What Time Is It? 75
Text A Travel 76
Text B A Summer Vacation 79
Phonetics Reading Rules of Letter Clusters："oi","oy"and"oo" 81
Reading Rules of re-Syllables 82
Grammar Cardinal Numbers 82
Ordinal Numbers 82
Unit 7 Presents 86
Dialogue Guess a Birthday Gift 87
Text A A Special Christmas Present 89
Text B The Present 92
Phonetics Pronunciation of"-ed"in the Past Tense 94
Reading Rules of Letter Clusters："qu","ture","ph","tch","wr","ck","kn","ng"and"nk" 95
Grammar The Simple Past Tense 95
Prepositions of Location 97
Unit 8 Shopping 102
Dialogue In a Menswear Shop 103
Text A Shopping Malls 105
Text B Differences Between Men and Women in Shopping 108
Phonetics Reading Rules of Letter Clusters："ll","mm","nn","PP","rr","ss","dr","tr","ds","ts","gg"and"gh" 110
Grammar Sequence of Adjectives 110
Usages of Prepositions 111
Unit 9 Office 116
Dialogue Where Is Mr Thomas'Office? 117
Text A My Office 119
Text B Virtual Office 122
Phonetics Intonation Ⅱ 124
Grammar Demonstrative Pronouns 124
Reflexive Pronouns 125
Unit 10 Animal World 128
Dialogue At the Zoo 129
Text A The Penguins 131
Text B Getting a Horse to Move 134
Phonetics Intonation Ⅲ 136
Grammar The Possessive Case of Nouns 137
Usages of many,much,a lot of,a few,few,little,a little 138
附录一 新老国际音标对照表 142
附录二 英语元音、辅音音素发音要领表 143
附录三 词汇表 146