Book 1

Unit 1 Studying English

• Greetings and Introductions

• Talking about studying English

• How to improve listening comprehension

• Test your listening
  

Unit 2 Fun with language

• How to Improve Your Conversation Skills

• Smile When You Read This

• Expressions used to describe excited people
  

Unit 3 School life

• Accommodation for College Students

• What College Professors Do

• Why Life at College may not be the best experience
  

Unit 4 Going to a party

• Controlling a Conversation

• Small Talk Is Easy

• Are You Calling About the Party?

• Short Conversations
  

Unit 5 Telephoning

• Taking telephone messages & identifying telephone numbers

• A business call

• Good Luck Company

• A conversation in the phone

Unit 6 Shopping

• Getting Information

• Where can we find women's wear?

• Defective goods
  

Unit 7 A job interview

• Fact or Opinion?

• We have an opening now

• Unusual interviewees

• A conversation in a job interview
  

Unit 8 Employment

• Expressing Apologies

• Identifying the speaker's job

• A steady job

• Mark Hill

• Jack and Betty Smith
  

Unit 9 Going on vacation

• Making reservations

• Identifying dates

• A visit to Bangkok

• Planning a visit to Miami
  

• On holidaymakers
  

Unit 10 Places of interest

• Describing places

• Identifying intonation patterns of tag questions

• Camp David

• Switzerland

• Paris vs. Washington
  

Unit 11 Animals

• Detecting liaison in connected speech

• Dog Ma

• The missing cat and the injured dog

• When animals make long journeys
  

Unit 12 Money matters

• Dealing with the bank

• Describing time

• At the bank

Unit 13 The Media

• Filling in forms
  

Unit 14 Advertising

• Placing an Ad

• Different kinds of Advertising

• What is advertising

Book 2

Unit 1 Sports

• A passage about Michael Jordan

• Why don't you join me at the gym sometime?

• Test your listening
  

Unit 2 Food and Drinks

• Listening "Between the Lines"

• What about dining out?

• A conversation at a restaurant

Unit 3 Weather

• Listening for important details

• Did You Hear the Weather Forecast?

• Test your listening

Unit 4 Music

• Listening for signal words

• Background Music

• Celine Dion
  

Unit 5 Health

• Identifying the Relationship Between the Speakers

• Going to see the doctor

• Test Your Listening
  

Unit 6 Business

• Identifying the Major Events

• Who is to be promoted?

• Mr. Stevenson
  

Unit 7 Fashion

• Summarizing

• Fashion--Image or Reality
  

• Vera Wang
  

Unit 8 Society

• The secret of happiness

• Lottery Winners

• A newborn girl
  

Unit 9 Dreams and Ambitions

• Jane's dream

• Larry's Dream

• Jeffrey Zaslow
  

Unit 10 Disasters

• News reports of disasters

• Surviving a plane crash

• 9.11
  

Unit 11 Famous people

• Identifying the Speaker's Attitude
  

Unit 12 The Internet

Unit 13 Human virtues

Unit 14 Culture

Unit 1 Parents

• Dating with my mother

• Conversations about parenthood
  

Unit 2 Coincidence

• What a coincidence!

• Coincidences in history
  

Unit 3 Courage

• Krimali

• Escaping from an explosin
  

Unit 4 Marriage

• A marriage agreement

• Barbara's complain
  

Unit 5 Youth

• Ashley

• Young people say no to smoking

• Jenny's concern
  

Unit 6 Stress

• Being a police officer is a stressful job

• Conversations about stress

Unit 7 The business world

• Welcoming visitors

• At a business meeting

• A year-end summary
  

Unit 8 The environment

• Plastic bags —— A big problem in Hong Kong

• The Rhine River

• Economic Development vs. Environmental Protection

• The three Rs for a cleaner environment
  

Unit 9 The single currency

• The launching of the Euro

• Britain‘s reaction to the single currency

• Brief history of Franc
  

Unit 10 The cinema

• Popcorn and the British cinema industry

• Death of the stunt people

• A debating on where is the ideal place to watch a film

• A conversation on a film
  

Unit 11 Left-handedness

• Why are some people left-handed?

• Does being left-handed affect one's life?

• Why the majority of population are right-handed?
  

Unit 12 Biodiversity

• Why is biodiversity important?

• How many species are there?

• Debating on urban expansions and biodiversity

• A type of tomato that can grow on salty water
  

Unit 13 Inventions

• Amazon.com

• Wonder drug

• AirPod
  

Unit 14 Women

• Women in business

• Are women the weaker sex?

• A debating on unequal treatment in getting promoted

• Jennifer Bradbury

Unit 1 One world

• Birthday celebrations around the world

• One World One Minute
  

Unit 2 Anti-smoking

• Last gasp for smokers

• Should smoking be banned altogether in public & private places?
  

Unit 3 Memory

• How our memory works

• Age and memory
  

Unit 4 Dealing with cultural differences

• Embarrassing experience

• Shall we call someone very early in the morning?
  

Unit 5 Friendship

Friendship

Unit 6 Success

Unit 7 Wealth

wealth

Unit 8 War

war

Unit 9 Aging

Aging

Unit 10 Home-schooling

Home schooling

Unit 11 Opinion polls

opinion polls

Unit 12 Reality TV

Reality TV

Unit 13 That's life

That's life

Unit 14 Crime and punishment