《应用英语教程》是根据教育部颁发的《高职高专教育英语课程教学的基本要求》(以下简称《基本要求》)，以高职高专逐步改制为基点，并参照大多数高职高专教学总学时的实际而编写的。旨在精要地概括常用生词、短语、语法规则等，将重点放在学生容易产生理解偏差的知识上，注重听和说的训练，在篇章、例词、例句和各项习题的内容上，贴近了《高等学校英语应用能力考试大纲》(以下简称《考试大纲》)的要求。

书中共分10个单元，每个单元由五个部分组成：Section Ⅰ.Listening and Speaking(听和说)，Section Ⅱ.IntensivC Reading(精读课文)，Section Ⅲ.Grammar(语法)，Section Ⅳ.Extensive Reading(阅读训练)和Section Ⅴ.Applied Writing(实用文体写作)，并附有教学参考书和学生练习册。

本教程为大学英语高职高专院校专门用书，作者均为有丰富教学经验的一线教师。全书以大学英语学习中要求掌握的基础知识为主线编排，配以大量的单词、词组、短语和例句，习题量充实，内容丰富；紧扣《高等学校英语应用能力考试大纲》的主题，融系统性、知识性、应用性为一体。同时参照大学英语应用能力考试的题型，精编了大量例题，在巩固学生学习的同时，提高他们在考试中的实战能力。

Unit 1

 Listening & Speaking

 Intensive Reading

Text A How to Improve Your Study Habits

 Grammar 名词和代词(Nouns and Pronouns)

 Extensive Reading

Text B What is Love?

Text C The Cord Blood

 Applied Writing 词汇与写作

Unit 2

 Listening & Speaking

 Intensive Reading

Text A Think in English without Thinking about It

 Grammar 动词(Verb)

 Extensive Reading

Text B The Finish Line

Text C From the Heart of a Joyous Child

 Applied Writing 短语、句子与标点符号

Unit 3

 Listening & Speaking

 Intensive Reading

Text A Mind Your Manners

 Grammar 形容词和副词(Adjeetive and Adverb)

 Extensive Reading

Text B Giving and Receiving Gift

Text C Learn to Distinguish "Urgent" from "Important".

  Applied Writing 英语句子的写作

Unit 4

  Listening & Speaking

  Intensive Reading

Text A What's the Miracle Cost?

  Grammar 限定词和冠词(Determiner and Article)

  Extensive Reading

Text B A Day at the Tradition

Text C The Little Girl Who Dared to Wish

 Applied Writing 段落的写作

Unit 5

 Listening & Speaking

 Intensive Reading

Text A The Great Escape

 Grammar 介词(Preposition)

 Extensive Reading

Text B Young Mozart

Text C Leading the Charge!

 Applied Writing 段落写作

Unit 6

 Listening & Speaking

 Intensive Reading

Text A Melancholy Saturday

 Grammar 数词和连词(Number and Conjunction)

 Extensive Reading

Text B A Place to Stand

Text C Report on the Introduction of New Practices

 Applied Writing 私人信函写作

Unit 7

 Listening & Speaking

 Intensive Reading

Text A What is Happiness?

 Grammar 时态 (Tense)

 Extensive Reading

Text B Walk, Don't Run

Text C The Choice

 Applied Writing 书信的写作

Unit 8

 Listening & Speaking

 Intensive Reading

Text A How & Where Hurricanes Form

 Grammar 语态(Voice)

 Extensive Reading

Text B About Stereotyped Views

Text C A Memo

 Applied Writing 说明文

Unit 9

 Listening & Speaking

 Intensive Reading

Text A Give Generously and Sleep Better

 Grammar 句子的成分(Memhers of the Sentences)

 Extensive Reading

Text B Crime and Punishment

Text C Beauty and the Brain

 Applied Writing 说明文

Unit 10

 Listening & Speaking

 Intensive Reading

Text A Why Nations Trade

 Grammar 主谓一致(Subject-Verb Concord)

 Extensive Reading

Text B Women Drivers Safer--Except When Parking

Text C Nuclear Energy

 Applied Writing 文章的开头与结尾

Glossary