Unit 1
Warm—up Activities
Text A Your First Night at School
Text B Never Too Old to Live Your Dream
Grammar: Parts of Speech
Cultural Focus Confucius: The Sage of Sages
Unit 2
Warm—up Activities
TextA The Opera Singer
Text B Playing a Violin with Ihree Strings
Grammar: Noun
Cultural Focus High Mountain and Flowing Stream
Unit 3
Warm—up Activities
Text A Fashion Forest
Text B Learn to Live with Curly Hair
Grammar: Verb (Ⅰ)
Cultural Focus Qipao—A Traditional Chinese Dress
Unit 4
Warm—up Activities
Text A A Dance with Dad
Text B Dance Lessons
Grammar: Verb (Ⅱ)
Cultural Focus The Dragon Dance
Unit 5
Warm—up Activities
Text A Ifthe Dream Is Big Enough
Text B Michael jordan's Farewell Letter to Basketball
Grammar: Special Usages of Comparative Degree
Cultural Focus Martial Arts
Unit 6
Warm—up Activities
Text A Tech's Best Feature: The Off Switch
TextB Online Writing
Grammar: Modal Verb
Cultural Focus Printing
Unit 7
Warm—up Activities
Text A The Fall and Rise of a Star
Text B Walks in the Theatre World
Grammar: Adverb
Cultural Focus Beijing Opera Make—up
Unit 8
Warm—up Activities
TextA Giotto
Text B Shapes and Growth of Trees
Grammar: Conjunction
Cultural Focus Chinese Painting