Unit One 8 I. Text “Anne Meets her Class” from “Fresh from the Country” by Miss Reed 10 II. Topic: Choosing a Career 27 Unit Two 42 I. Text “A Day's Wait” by Ernest Hemingway 45 II. Topic: Illnesses and their Treatment 63 Unit Three 84 I. Text "Introducing London" 85 II. Topic: "City" 101 Unit Four 119 I. Text “How we Kept Mother's Day” by Stephen Leacock 121 II. Topic: Meals 137 Unit Five 157 I. Text “A Freshman's Experience” from “Daddy Long-Legs” by Jean Webster 160 II. Topic: Education 173 Unit Six 192 I. Text “A Friend in Need” by Somerset Maugham 194 II. Topic: Sports and Games 210 Unit Seven 230 I. Text “The British Isles” from “Essential English for Foreign Students” by C. E. Eckersley 232 II. Topic: Geography 250 Unit Eight 266 I. Text “Seeing People Off” by Max Beerbohm 270 II. Topic: Travelling 286 Unit Nine 306 I. Text “Rose at the Music-Hall” from “They Walk in the City” by J. B. Priestley 310 II. Topic: Theatre 325 SUPPLEMENT 343 A. Classroom English 343 B. Conversational Phrases 349 Exercises in intonation Section One. Review of Fundamental Intonation Patterns and Their Use 353 Section Two. Intonation Pattern IX 359 High Fall 359 Section Three. Intonation Pattern X 367 (Low Pre-Head+ ) Rising Head + High Fall (-F Tail) 367 Section Four. Intonation Pattern XI 376 (Low Pre-Head+ ) Falling Head + High Fall (-F Tail) 376 Section Five. Compound Tunes 388 Fall + Rise 388 Section Six. Compound Tunes 399 Two or More Falls within One Sense-Group 399 Section Seven. Intonation Pattern XII 409 (Low Pre-Head+ ) (High Head + ) High Rise (-b Tail) 409 Section Eight High Pre-Head 417 SUPPLEMENT 426 GRAMMAR EXERCISES The Indicative Mood 434 Revision Exercises on Tense and Voice 434 The Subjunctive Mood and the Conditional Mood 446 Modal Verbs 455 Revision Exercises on Mood and Modal Verbs 475 Non-Finite Forms of the Verb 483 The Infinitive 483 The Gerund 494 The Participles 501 Revision Exercises on the Verbals 510

Серия учебников предназначена для студентов педагогических вузов и предполагает преемственность в изучении английского языка с I по V курс. Цель учебника — обучение устной речи на основе автоматизированных речевых навыков. В шестом издании переработан ряд реалий в соответствии с теми изменениями, которые имели место в учебном процессе английского языка за последние годы.