根据我国基础教育阶段英语课程改革的精神，我们编写了这套中学英语教材。 本套教材具有以下一些特点：
1.本套教材注重听说训练，着重培养学习的语感和初步用英语进行简单日常交流的能力；并通过听、说、读、写、唱、游、演、画、做等活动激发学生的学习兴趣，帮助学习养成良好的学习习惯，形成有效的学习方法，发展自主学习的能力，为进一步学习打下基础。
2.按“话题--功能--结构--任务”相结合的原则编写，并力求使话题、功能、结构和任务四个方面在比较真实的情景中紧密联系，融为一体。
3.内容贴近学生的生活和学习实际，并配有大量生动活泼、富有情趣的插图，以利于学生比较接近于实际的情景中进行听说训练，也为教师组织教学活动提供方便。
CHAPTER ONE [00:03.81]READING Page 3 [00:09.67]Protecting the innocent [00:13.22]Pansy wanted to write an article on detectives for the school newspaper. [00:21.39]To get information,she interviewed Detective Ken. [00:28.06]This is part of the interv...
CHAPTER TWO READING pages 18 and 19 COMPUTERS [00:10.08]Tony plans to write an article about computers. [00:17.06]This is some of the information he has collected. [00:23.30]Hidden helpers [00:26.78]Not so many years ago. [00:30.90]You hardly ever sa...
CHAPTER THREE [00:02.98]READING Page 35 [00:07.73]The night of the horse [00:11.49]A newspaper ran a short story competition on famous tales from history. [00:20.04]This is a story one of the students sent in. [00:25.60]The soldier came down the stai...
CHAPTER FOUR READING Page 53 [00:06.58]The African Ghost Fish [00:10.84]One day,Tony received this note from a student: [00:17.40]'My grandad often tells us stories. [00:23.35]I enclose one that you might like to include in your paper.' [00:30.72]Her...
CHAPTER FIVE [00:02.98]READING [00:05.62]Pages 66 and 67 [00:10.34]Fishing with Birds Wang Damin sits on the side of the river cooking a meal, [00:19.38]with a large bird on his head. [00:23.64]The bird is a cormorant,and Damin is a fisherman [00:29....
CHAPTER SIX READING Pages 80 and 81 [00:08.20]MEMORY [00:10.84]Joyce wanted to have a feature about memory. [00:16.30]She and her editors all agreed to write short articles on this topic. [00:25.26]I read in a book that we have a short-term memory an...
CHAPTER SEVEN [00:03.08]READING Pages 96 and 97 [00:08.96]Comic strips [00:12.12]Creating a comic strip [00:15.78]A robbery ... [00:18.73]an escape from the zoo... [00:22.57]an exciting and dangerous journey ... [00:27.53]a kidnap! [00:30.69]The firs...
CHAPTER SEVEN [00:03.08]READING Pages 96 and 97 [00:08.96]Comic strips [00:12.12]Creating a comic strip [00:15.78]A robbery ... [00:18.73]an escape from the zoo... [00:22.57]an exciting and dangerous journey ... [00:27.53]a kidnap! [00:30.69]The firs...
CHAPTER ONE [00:44.25]READING [00:45.74]Page 2 and 3 [00:48.43]THE YOUNG GREEN CONSUMER GUIDE [00:51.51]Review by Tony Ma [00:54.62]This book says that our world is in danger [00:59.32]It is vital that we do something to save the earth [01:04.21]Firs...
CHAPTER TWO [00:09.82]READING Page 19 [00:13.01]Educational visits [00:12.01]Joyce wanted to have some articles in the school newspaper [00:17.81]about educational visits to other countries. [00:22.72]She asked some older students to write these arti...
CHAPTER THREE READING Page 33 [00:14.34]A SUCCESS STORY [00:16.33]Arthur was responsible for writing stories [00:21.13]about successful people for the school newspaper. [00:24.89]Here is a story he wrote. [00:27.53]The Girl from the Street [00:30.82]...
CHAPTER FOUR READING [00:11.23]page fourty-seven [00:13.74]Joyce wanted to encourage students to read more famous books. [00:20.24]So,in her newspaper, [00:23.54]she printed this funny story from a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [00:29.94]b...
CHAPTER FIVE READING [00:11.55]page 61 [00:13.66]Family Lives [00:16.35]Pansy spoke to two teenagers in connecti-on [00:20.77]with the first article in a series on family life. [00:25.31]Here is what the teenagers said. [00:29.20]Tina (not her real n...
