Comprehensive College English.1

Unit One
Text A: Peking University Address
Text B: Five Evidences of an Education
Phonetics: Pronunciation——Fricatives
Grammar：The Subject-Verb Core

Unit Two
Text A: Versatile Man
Text B: TwoVersatile Men: Leonardo da Vinci and Sir Philip Sidney
Phonetics: Pronunciation——Plosives
Grammar.Predicate Verbs “Frozen” Verbs

Unit Three
Text A: Do This and You'll Be Welcome Anywhere
Text B: Beautiful Smile and Love
Phonetics: Pronunciation Affricates
Grammar.Verb Pattern (1):Linking Verb + Subject Complement (VC)

Unit Four
Text A: The Station
Text B: Gather Ye Rose-buds: Philosophies of Life
Phonetics: Pronunciation—— Ncsds
Grammar.Verb Pattern (2):Intransitive Verb (V)

Unit Five
Text A: Rites of Passage
Text B: Her Shadow
Phonetics: Pronunciation——Lateral
Grammar: Verb Pattern (3): Verb + Object (VO)

Unit Six
Text A: The Days When I Couldn't Speak (I)
Text B: The Days When I Couldn't Speak (Ⅱ)
Phonetics: Pronunciation——Semi-Vowels
Grammar: Verb Pattern (4): Verb +Object +Complement(VOC)

Unit Seven
Text A: In and of Ourselves We Trust
Text B: A Traffic Light Is a Brainless Machine
Phonetics: Pronunciation——Frictionless Continuant
Grammar: Verb Pattern (5): Verb + Indirect Object + Direct Object (VOO)

Unit Eight
Text A: As Some May One Day See
Text B: A City without Green
Phonetics: Pronunciation——Consonant Clusters
Grammar: Subject- Verb Concord

Unit Nine
Text A: Human Life as a Poem
Text B: On How to Grow Old
Phonetics: Pronunciation——The Front Vowels
Grammar: Present Tense

Unit Ten
Text A: Night Watch
Text B: The Dying Girl That No One Helped
Phonetics: Pronunciation——The Back Vowels
Grammar: Past Tense (1)

Unit Eleven
Text A: Mother Tongue
Text B: A Widely-used But Crazy Language
Phonetics: Pronunciation——The Central Vowels
Grammar: Past Tense (2)

Unit Twelve
Text A: American Space, Chinese Place
Text B: Travel With Charley
Phonetics: Pronunciation——The Closing Diphthongs (1)
Grammar. Past Tense (3)

Unit Thirteen
Text A：Why ! Decided to Be a Writer
Text B: The Joys of Writing
Phonetics: Pronunciation ——The Closing Diphthongs (2)
Grammar: Future Tense

Unit Fourteen
Text A: New Lifestyles from Old Philosophies
Text B: Wisdom
Phonetics: Pronunciation—— The Centring Diphthongs
Grammar: The Passive Voice
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