本册书共15个单元，可供一学期教学使用。计划每个单元使用三个学时，即三节课。在前两个学时里可完成第一部分至第四部分，然后利用第三个学时完成第五部分至第九部分。可根据学生的实际情况，调整教学计划，适当地加快进度或减缓进度。每个单元又包括了9个部分：话题介绍、听力、阅读、采访、谈话节目、辩论、功能用语、写作和词汇。

Unit Sixteen    Following the Fashion

Unit Seventeen   Job-hopping

Unit Eighteen    Retirement

Unit Nineteen    Euthanasia

Unit Twenty     Capital Punishment

Unit Twenty-one   Single-sex Education

Unit Twenty-two   Test-oriented Education and Quality-oriented Education

Unit Twenty-three  Private School and Public School

Unit Twenty-four  Economic Development and Environmental Protection

Unit Twenty-five  Human Cloning

Unit Twenty-six   Nature and Nurture

Unit Twenty-seven  Gun-possession

Unit Twenty-eight  Nuclear Energy

Unit Twenty-nine  Competition and Cooperation

Unit Thirty     Economic Globalization

Appendix I     Reference Answers

Appendix II     English Speech Evaluation Criteria of American Students

Appendix m     Debate Topics