Unit 1 People Around You
Dialogue A New Student
Text A Look Carefully and Learn
Text B Bill Gates
Grammar Expressions about Time
Unit 2 Social Matters
Dialogue A Difficult Assignment
Text A Why I Refused to Buy My Child a Mobile Phone
Text B Good Intentions Aren't Enough
Grammar Future Tense
Unit 3 Around the World
Dialogue Air Fare to London
Text A England and Britain
Text B Impressions of the British
Grammar Past Progressive and Future Progressive
Unit 4 Life Stories
Dialogue A Birthday Gift
Text A "Excuses
Text B Whatever You Need
Grammar Present Perfective and Past Perfective
Unit 5 Money
Dialogue Making Ends Meet
Text A Money and the Meaning of Life
Text B The History of Money
Grammar Auxiliary Verb and Modal Verb
Unit 6 Dilemma
Dialogue A Student's Dilemma
Text A A Working Woman's Dilemma
Text B The Prisoner's Dilemma: a Fable
Grammar Gradables
Unit 7 Customs
Dialogue Dinner Invitation
Text A Thanksgiving Day
Text B April Fool's Day
Grammar Infinitive
Unit 8 Fairy Tales
Dialogue The Moral of a Fable
Text A The Eagle and the Beetle
Text B Walking in the Woods
Grammar Participles
Unit 9 Culture
Dialogue Italian Food
Text A Walls
Text B What Are Good Manners?
Grammar Conjunction and Interjection
Unit 10 Words and Stories
Dialogue Seeing Eye to Eye
Text A The Dumbest of Grammas in the World
Text B Where Are the Words from
Grammar Punctuation Marks