Unit One Traveling
Part One Listening Comprehension
Part Two Reading Comprehension: Guessing Word Meaning from Context
Part Three Intensive Reading: 40 Days in the Scandinavian Wilderness
Part Four Oral Practice: Traveling
Part Five Writing: General Writing——Diction
Practical Writing——Arrival/Departure Record
Unit Two Belonging to a Group
Part One Listening Comprehension
Part Two Reading Comprehension: Punctuation and Connectives
Part Three Intensive Reading: Group Mind
Part Four Oral Practice: Societies and Associations
Part Five Writing: General Writing——Denotation, Connotation and Collocation
Practical Writing——Application Form
Unit Three Gratitude
Part One Listening Comprehension
Part Two Reading Comprehension: Guessing Word Meaning from Context (2)
Part Three Intensive Reading: The New Discovery of Thank-you
Part Four Oral Practice: Family
Part Five Writing: General Writing——How to Avoid Wordiness and Redundancy
Practical Writing——Personal Letters (I)-Family Letter
Unit Four Music
Part One Listening Comprenension
Part Two Reading Comprehension: Key Word Spotting
Part Three Intensive Reading: Stay, for the Music
Part Four Oral Practice: Music
Part Five Writing: General Writing——Patterns of Organization
Practical Writing—— Letters of Thanks
Unit Five Globalization
Part One Listening Comprehension
Part Two Reading Comprehension: Five Ws and One H
Part Three Intensive Reading: What's Globalization
Part Four Oral Practice: Keeping in Touch with Friends and Family
Part Five Writing: General Writing——General-to-Specific and Specific-to-General
Practical Writing—— E-mail
Unit Six History
Part One Listening Comprehension
Part Two Reading Comprehension: Comprehension through Inference
Part Three Intensive Reading: Ping-pong Diplomacy
Part Four Oral Practice: History and Heroes
Part Five Writing: General Writing——Degrees of Importance
Practical Writing——Book Report
Unit Seven Food and Health
Part One Listening Comprehension
Part Two Reading Comprehension: Recognizing the Author's Tone
Part Three Intensive Reading: Junk Food vs. Healthy Nutrition for Children
Part Four Oral Practice: Table Manners
Part Five Writing: General Writing——Description, Narration and Classification
Practical Writing—— Menus
Unit Eight Mass Media
Part One Listening Comprehension
Part Two Reading Comprehension: Identifying the Writer's Purpose
Part Three Intensive Reading: The Impact of Media Violence
Part Four Oral Practice: Movies
Part Five Writing: General Writing——Ways of Organizing Paragraphs
Practical Writing—— Posters