本册书共15个单元,可供一学期教学使用。计划每个单元使用三个学时,即三节课。在前两个学时里可完成第一部分至第四部分,然后利用第三个学时完成第五部分至第九部分。可根据学生的实际情况,调整教学计划,适当地加快进度或减缓进度。每个单元又包括了9个部分:话题介绍、听力、阅读、采访、谈话节目、辩论、功能用语、写作和词汇。
Unit One Watching TV
Unit Two Smoking
Unit Three Keeping Pets
Unit Four Part-time Jobs
Unit Five The City or the Countryside
Unit Six Computers and the Internet
Unit Seven Advertisements
Unit Eight Private Cars
Unit Nine Studying Abroad
Unit Ten Begging
Unit Eleven Campus Love
Unit Twelve Juvenile Writers
Unit Thirteen Plastic Surgery
Unit Fourteen Love and Marriage
Unit Fifteen Men and Women
Appendix I Classical English Songs
Appendix II Reference Answers