Lesson 5 Is He a Hero? Text A "Fire! Fire! " What terrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, old, wooden house-the sort that burns beautifu...
Lesson4 Musical Half-Notes Text A A musician who played Pop Music in a CLub lived in boardinghouse in the centre of london. He always used to get back to his room very late at night and sometimes inth...
Lesson 3 Who Took the Money? Text A Mr Smith gave his wife ten pounds for her birthday-ten pretty pound notes. So the day after her birthday, Mrs Smith went shopping. She queued for a bus, got on and...
Lesson 2 Au Pair Girl Text A Gretel comes from Austria. She is eighteen years old. She is going to stay with the Clark family for a year. Gretel has come to England because she wants to improve her En...
Lesson 1 Too Clever Text A A farmer who lived in a small village suffered from a severe pain in the chest. This never seemed to get any better. The farmer eventually decided that he would consult a do...
In the heart of America， in the states of Pennsylvania， Ohio and Indiana， live some people who are not your typical Americans. In order to lead simple lives， they don't use cars. Instead， th...
Bob, who is Chinese, is speaking to his American classmate, Jill. J: Hi, Bob. What's up? B: I don't see anything up in the sky. Do you? J: No, Bob. "What's up?" is slang for "What's happening?" B: Wel...
Do you sometimes have a hard time understanding what Americans are talking about among themselves? Do you want to know why? The answer is, Americans are crazy about using slang. They tend to over do i...
A student is talking to her teacher. S: I hear that scientists are planning to study asteroids and meteors, right? T: Yes. They want to determine whether Earth is in danger of being struck by such a r...
Seeing is believing. But seeing a huge rock half the size of Earth smash into Jupiter in July 1996 was incredible. Can you imagine what would happen if Earth collided with a huge space rock? It would...
