Unit 1
Love of Reading
Part I Pre—Reading Task
Part II Text A One Writer’s Beginnings
Part III Text B Prison Studies
Part IV Theme—Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy:Sentence variety
Unit 2
Diet
Part I Pre—Reading Task
Part II Text A Let’s Go Veggie!
Part III Text B Where's the Beef?
Part IV Theme—Related Language Leaming Tasks
Writing Strategy:The relation of argumentation and other types of writing
Unit 3
Lying
Part I Pre—Reading Task
Part II Text A TheI。ruth about Lying
Part III Text B White Lies
Pan IV Theme—Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy:How to write letters of personal apology
Unit 4
Unforgettable Teachers
Part I Pre—Reading Task
Part II Text A Take This Fish and Look at It
Part III Text B Unforgettable Miss Bessie
Part IV Theme—Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy:Using a combination of methods for developing essays
Test Yourself(Units 1—4)
Unit 5
The Americall Civil war
Part I PreReading Task
Part II Text A Grant and Lee
Part III Text B A Brief History of the American Civil War
Part IV Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy:How to write a summary
Unit 6
Marriage
Part 1 PreReading Task
Part II Text A The Legacy
Part III Text B Why Marriages Fail
Part IV Theme—Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy:How to write a report
Unit 7
Machine Translation
Part I Pre—Reading Task
Part II Text A Tongues of the Web
Part III Text B Computer—Based Translation Systems and Tools
Part IV Theme—Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy:Revising
Unit 8
Gambling Addiction
Part I Pre—Reading Task
Part II Text A Going for Broke
Part III Text B A Life Lost to Gambling
Part IV Theme—Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy:How to write letters of sympathy or condolence
Test Yourself(Units 5—8)
Appendix I Key to Exercises in Parts I,III,IV
Appendix II Tapescripts and Key to Test Papers
Appendix III Glossary