ESSENTIAL COURSE
Unit One 8
Text "Anne Meets her Class" from "Fresh from the Country" by Miss Reed 10
Topic: Choosing a Career 27
Unit Two 42
Text "A Day,s Wait" by Ernest Hemingway 45
Topic: Illnesses and their Treatment 63
Unit Three 84
Text "Introducing London" 85
Topic: "City" 101
Unit Four 119
Text "How we Kept Mother,s Day" by Stephen Leacock 121
Topic: Meals 137
Unit Five 157
Text "A Freshman,s Experience" from "Daddy Long-Legs" by Jean Webster 160
Topic: Education 173
Unit Six 192
Text "A Friend in Need" by Somerset Maugham 194
Topic: Sports and Games 210
Unit Seven 230
Text "The British Isles" from "Essential English for Foreign Students" by С. E. Eckersley 232
Topic: Geography Unit Eight 266
Text "Seeing People Off" by Max Beerbohm 270
Topic: Travelling 286
Unit Nine 306
Text "Rose at the Music-Hall" from "They Walk in the City" by J. B. Priestley 310
Topic: Theatre 325
SUPPLEMENT 343
Classroom English 343
Conversational Phrases 349
EXERCISES IN INTONATION Section One. Review of Fundamental Intonation Patterns and Their Use 353
Section Тмго. Intonation Pattern IX 359
High Fall 359
Section Three. Intonation Pattern X 367
(Low Pre-Head+ ) Rising Head + High Fall (+ Tail) 367
Section Four. Intonation Pattern XI 376
(Low Pre-Head +) Falling Head-»-High Fall (+Tail) 376
Section Five. Compound Tunes 388
Fall + Rise 388
Section Six. Compound Tunes 399
Two or More Falls within One Sense-Group 399
Section Seven. Intonation Pattern XII 409
(Low Pre-Head +) (High Head -+-) High Rise (+ Tail) 409
Section Eight. High Pre-Head 417
SUPPLEMENT 426
GRAMMAR EXERCISES
The Indicative Mood 434
Revision Exercises on Tense and Voice 434
The Subjunctive Mood and the Conditional Mood 446
Modal Verbs 455
Revision Exercises on Mood and Modal Verbs 475
Non-Finite Forms of the Verb 483
The Infinitive 483
The Gerund 494
The Participles 501
Revision Exercises on the Verbals 510