本教程专为非英语国家的英语学习者编写，是目前国际上最有影响的英语教程之一，也是剑桥大学出版社在全球销量最大的教材。该教材采用“交际教学法”，强调在实际交流中培养语言的流利性，灵活性与精确性，它旨在培养综合技能，主要活动内容包括：主题讨论、语法结构、语言功能、词汇扩展和语音训练，给予学生最大限度的实践机会。本书主要使用美国英语，但涉及各种文化，它不仅题材新颖广泛，富有时代气息，而且提供了大量关于东西方文化差异的信息，充分体现了英语作为国际交流用语的丰富性和多元性。本书教学重点清晰、进度适中，可供教师参考。

Introduction

 Course Length

 Course Components

 Approach and Methodology

 Syllabus

 Unit Structure and Organization

 Review Units，Unit Summaries，and Tests

 General Guidelines for Teaching New Interchange

 Testing Students’Progress

 How to Teach a Typical Unit of New Interchange Intro

 From the Authors

Spelling Differences Between American and British English

Phonetic Symbols

Authors’Acknowledgments

Plan of Intro Book

1 It’S nice to meet you．

2 What’S this?

3 Where are you from?

4 I’m not wearing boots!

  Review of Units 1-4

5 What are you doing?

6 We live in the suburbs．

7 Does the apartment have a view?

8 What do you do?

  Review of Units 5-8

9 Broccoli is good for you.

10 You can play baseball really well.

11 What are you going to do?

12 What’s the matter?

Review of Units 9-12

13 You can’t miss it．

14 Did you have a good weekend?

15 Where were you born?

16 Please leave US a message．

Review of Units 13-16

Interchange Activities

Unit Summaries

Appendix

Acknowledgements

Optional Activities Index

Optional Activities

Tests

Test Audio Scripts

Test Answer Kevs

Test Cross—Reference Indexes

Workbook Answer Key