本书14个Part共收录154则生动活泼的生活情境对话，让人如临其境，对话内容幽默风趣，忠实地呈现出美国日常生活中的小对话。
本书美籍作者丹尼斯为美国高中教师，录制过许多美国教学广播节目，在海峡两岸更有十七年的丰富教学经验，深谙以中文为母语的学生在学习美语时会面临的问题，本书即其教学经验之结晶。
大部分小对话中，穿插Swimming in English小单元，针对重要短语或句型附加补充说明，增加您的语法知识，了解美国生活中的惯用语。
每个Part之后，编写1-3则练习题，包含词语填充、对话搭配和填字游戏，帮助您复习会话用语，加强记忆。
目录
录音人员简介
本书结构与使用说明
Part 1 Greetings
Unit 1 How Are You？
Unit 2 How Is Your English？
Unit 3 How Are You Doing？
Unit 4 What’s the Matter With You？
Unit 5 Hi，Dennis！I Haven’t Seen You for a Long Time。 How’ve you Been？
Unit 6 Where Did You Go？
Unit 7 Hello？
Unit 8 I Have a Cold。I Have the Flu。 I Have a Fever。
Unit 9 Can I Take a Message？Can You Hold On for a Minute？
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Part 2 Saying Good-bye
Unit 1 Good-bye！
Unit 2 Say Hello to Carol。
Unit 3 Have a Nice Trip！
Unit 4 It Was Fun Talking to You！It Was So Nice to See You！
Unit 5 Why Don’t You Stay for a While？Can’t You Stay for a Little Bit Longer？
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Part 3 Where is it？I Can’t Find It。
Unit 1 Where Is My Checkbook？
Unit 2 Where Is My Credit Card？
Unit 3 Where Is My Book？
Unit 4 Where Are Your Things？
Unit 5 I Can’t Find Them Anywhere！
Unit 6 Where Can I Find a Job？
Unit 7 Where is Sue？ What’s She Doing？
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Part 4 How to Identify Yourself
Unit 1 What’s Your Name？
Unit 2 Where Are You From？
Unit 3 Who，What，When，Where，Why，How，How Long
Unit 4 Who is That Young Lady Sitting by the Window？
Exercise 7
Exercise 8
Part 5 Weather
Unit 1 Too Cold ！
Unit 2 I’m Shivering With Cold。 I Can’t Stand the Cold。
Unit 3 Too Hot！
Unit 4 It’s Too Hot to Study Today。
Unit 5 It’s a Nice Day Today！
Unit 6 It’s Raining。
Unit 7 It Looks Like…
Unit 8 Four Seasons
Unit 9 Which City is the Windiest City in the United States？
Exercise 9
Exercise 10
Part 6 Invitation
Part 7 Languages
Part 8 Compliments
Part 9 Hurry Up！
Part 10 Apology
Part 11 Argument
Part 12 Love and Marriage
Part 13 Habit
Part 14 Warning
