Around Here contains thirty topics familiar to all Chinese students. Its sole purpose is to provide a chance to activate vocabulary and grammar that they already know. Of course in the process of dealing with the topics, the teacher will be in a position to present new, often contentspecific vocabulary, but I recommend that students first be given a chance to communicate without it. The unit on ATMs, for example, lends itself to the presentation (or review) of such banking terms as deposit, withdraw and balance, and by the end of the discussion students should be familiar with these. At the outset, however, they are already capable of saying "put money in","take money out" and "how much money you have" and should, I feel, be encouraged to do so.

Introduction

Unit 1 Freshman Registration

Unit 2 Military Training

Unit 3 Dormitories

Unit 4 Campus Associations

Unit 5 The Changing Environment

Unit 6 National Day: Oct 1, 1949

Unit 7 Advertising

Unit 8 ATMs

Unit 9 Cafeterias

Unit 10 Beggars

Unit 11 Cell phones

Unit 12 Friends

Unit 13 Security Guards

Unit 14 The Campus Library

Unit 15 KTV(Karaoke TV)

Unit 16 Spring Festival

Unit 17 The Campus Infirmary

Unit 18 Hair Salons

Unit 19 EE. (Physical Education)

Unit 20 Transportation

Unit 21 Pets

Unit 22 Tomb Sweeping Day

Unit 23 Campus Romance

Unit 24 Foreign Teachers

Unit 25 Thieves

Unit 26 QQ

Unit 27 English

Unit 28 Bicycles

Unit 29 Nursing Homes

Unit 30 Computer Games