Table of Contents

Unit 1: Special Days
READING 1
A Festival of Colors
WRITING 1
SKILLS The Sentence | Capitalization Rules
PRACTICE Writing about holidays
READING 2
Birthdays around the World
WRITING 2
SKILLS The Paragraph
PRACTICE Writing about your birthday
Unit 2: Places
READING 1
Venice: A Changing City
WRITING 1
SKILLS Adjectives
PRACTICE Writing about a city
READING 2
Life Is Good in Iceland
WRITING 2
SKILLS The Comparitive Form of Adjectives | The Superlative Form of Adjectives
PRACTICE Writing about one�s country
Unit 3: Ways to Health
READING 1
Go to Sleep!
WRITING 1
SKILLS Using when
PRACTICE Writing about sleep habits
READING 2
Laughing Out Loud
WRITING 2
SKILLS Adverbs
PRACTICE Writing about laughing
Unit 4: Customs
READING 1
What to Name the Baby
WRITING 1
SKILLS Count Nouns and Noncount Nouns
PRACTICE Writing about a special day
READING 2
Eat, Drink, and Know the Customs
WRITING 2
SKILLS Common Prepositions |Prepositional Phrases
PRACTICE Writing about a meal
Unit 5: Food
READING 1
Hold Your Nose and Eat!
WRITING 1
SKILLS Writing Instructions
PRACTICE Writing about a favorite food
READING 2
The World�s Most Popular Drink
WRITING 2
SKILLS The Pronouns it and them
PRACTICE Writing about a favorite drink
Unit 6: Inventors and Their Inventions
READING 1
Dinner Fresh from the Freezer
WRITING 1
SKILLS Comparing Things with as . . . as
PRACTICE Writing about microwave ovens
READING 2
A Sharp Idea from King Gillette
WRITING 2
SKILLS Using too and very with Adjectives
PRACTICE Writing about toothbrushes
Unit 7: Amazing People
READING 1
Hayat Sindi: One Person Helps the World
WRITING 1
SKILLS Asking Questions | Prepositions of Time
PRACTICE Writing about the life of a classmate
READING 2
A Life with Chimpanzees
WRITING 2
SKILLS Writing about Someone�s Life |Different Ways of Expressing Time
PRACTICE Writing about the events in one�s life
Unit 8: Readings from Literature
READING 1
The Rain
WRITING 1
SKILLS Review of Parts of Speech
PRACTICE Writing a poem
READING 2
The Shepherd�s Boy
WRITING 2
SKILLS Paraphrasing
PRACTICE Writing a fable

About the Author

Milada Broukal has taught English for over thirty years in North America and Europe. She has worked in all areas of the field, including syllabus design, teacher training, classroom teaching, and has been Director of Study of her own school. She is the author of over 30 successful textbooks including the series Weaving it Together, The Thomson Heinle Test Preparation Assistant series, and the recently published Check it Out! series. Milada holds two Master's degrees.