本教程是整个系列教材的主干教程,旨在指导学生在深入学习课文的基础上,从词、句、语篇等角度进行听、说、读、写、译多方面的语言操练,着重培养学生的英语语言能力和综合应用能力。
全书为《综合教程》的第二册,共分四个单元,PartⅠ为每单元提供了一段与该单元主题紧密相关的录音(形式有歌曲、小故事、短文等),要求学生上课前预习时听;PartⅡ由正课文、词表和练习三部分组成。课文注释采用脚注;PartⅢ由副课文、词表和练习三部分组成;PartⅣ是一项进一步深化的综合性口、笔实践活动;
另外,书内还按四单元为一组设计了两份试卷,供学生阶段性复习用。试卷按照大学英语四、六级考试题型设计,以便让学生逐步熟悉其形式,为今后参加大学英语四、六级考试作好准备。书末附有三个附录供参考。
Unit 1
Ways of Learning
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅳ Text A Learning, Chinese-Style
Part Ⅳ Text B Children and Money
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Using comparison and contrast in essay writing
Unit 2
Values
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅳ Text A The Richest Man in America, Down Home
Part Ⅳ Text B The Restoration of Jimmy Carter
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: How to write invitations
Unit 3
The Generation Gap
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅳ Text A Father Knows Better
Part Ⅳ Text B When Father Doesn't Know Best
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Some stylistic differences between speech and writing.
Unit 4
The Virtual World
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅳ Text A A Virtual Life
Part Ⅳ Text B Mother's Mad about the Internuts
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Inductive generalization
Test Yourself (Units 1 - 4)
Unit 5
Overcoming Obstacles
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A True Height
Part Ⅲ Text B Fourteen Steps
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: How to write a personal description (2)
Unit 6
Women, Half the Sky
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A I'm Going to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge
Part Ⅲ Text B Beginning Anew
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Coherence
Unit 7
Learning about English
Part I Pre-Reading Task
Part II Text A The Glorious Messiness of English
Part Ⅲ Text B The Role of English in the 21st Century
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: Information transfer
Unit 8
Protecting Our Environment
Part Ⅰ Pre-Reading Task
Part Ⅱ Text A Saving Nature, But Only for Man
Part Ⅲ Text B An Ugly New Footprint in the Sand
Part Ⅳ Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks
Writing Strategy: How to write a persuasive essay
Test Yourself (Units 5- 8)
Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exercises in Parts Ⅰ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ
Appendix Ⅱ Tapescripts and Key to Test Papers
Appendix Ⅲ Glossary