1、Lesson 2 Breakfast or Lunch The writer always gets up late on got up late last aunt telephoned had just arrived by was coming to see said,I am still having breakfast.His aunt was was one oclock.（45 words）Lesson 3 Please Send Me a Card Postcards always spoil the writers spent his holiday in Italy las
2、t tought about postcards every didnt send any cards to his bought thirty-seven cards on the last staied at home all didnt write any cards.（47 words）Lesson 4 An Exciting Trip The writer has just received a letter from his brother, is an has been in Australia for six has already visited many is in Ali
3、ce Springs has never been abroad is enjoying his trip very much.（48 words）Lesson 5 No Wrong Numbers has opened his second garage in first garage is in is five miles away from cant get a telephone for his new has just bought twelve carry messages from one garage to the other in three minutes.（48 word
4、s）Lesson 6 Percy Buttons The writer has just moved to a house in Bridge beggar knocked at her door sang writer gave him a meal and a glass of beer in return for beggars name is Percy calls at every house once a month.（50 words）Lesson 7 Too Late Detectives were waiting at the airport all were expecti
5、ng a valuable parcel of diamonds from South men took the parcel of the detectives opened parcel was full of stones and sand.（39 words）Lesson 8 The Best and Worst Joe Sanders has the best garden in wins The Nicest Garden Competitioneach has a fine s is writers garden is always win a little prize for
6、the competition.（37 words）Lesson 9 A Cold Welcome We went to the Town Hall on New Years were a lot of people Town Hall clock will strike twelve in twenty five to twelve,it refused to welcome the New crowd began to laugh and sing.（46 words）Lesson 10 Not for Jazz We own an old was made in grandfather
7、bought the instrument many years visitor damaged it tried to play jazz on broke two of the fathers friend is repairing it now.（45 words）Lesson 11 One Return Deserves Another I was having dinner at a see Tony Steele after a always borrows money from his sat at my asked him to lend me twenty gave me t
8、he money at wanted me to pay for his dinner.（49 words）Lesson 12 Goodbye and Good Luck Well meet Captain Charles Alison at Portsmouth Harbour eary tomorrow will be in his small boat, will leave at eight oll say goodbye to will take part in an importantrace across the Atlantic.（40 words）Lesson 13 The
9、Greenwood Boys The Greenwood Boys are will be coming here of the young people will be meeting them at the will gave five police will be trying to keep order as usual.（38 words）Lesson 14 Do You Speak English The writer gave a lift to a young man in the south of France last greated each other in write
10、r doesnt speak any sat in young man said,Do you speak English at the end of the was English himself.（49 words）Lesson 15 Good News wanted see felt went into his said business was very firm couldnt pay such large people had already didnt ask me to offered me an extra thousand pounds a year!（47 words）L
11、esson 16 A Polite Request Traffic police usually give you a ticket if you park your car in the wrong writer found a polite note on his car in traffic policeman wanted him to pay attention to their street cant fail to obey a request like this.（48 words）Lesson 17 Always Young My aunt Jennifer is an is
12、 over thirty years often appears on the stage as a young will act the part of a girl of seventeen in a new play never tells anyone how old she really is.（46 words）Lesson 18 It Often Does This The writer had lunch at a village couldnt find her bag after her couldnt pay the landlord soon found it for
13、dog had taken it into the garden.（36 words）Lesson 19 Sold Out The play was going to begin at any asked for two were none and I were man hurried to the ticket office just returned two were for next Wednesdays bought them.（45 words）Lesson 20 One Man in a Boat Fishing is the writers favourite unlucky f
14、isherman catch old boots and writer isnt not so never catches isnt really interested in is only interested in sitting in a boat and doing nothing at all.（44 words）Lesson 21 Mad or Not The writer is slowly going lives near an planes can be heard night and of his neighbours have left their has been of
15、fered money to determined to stay says he must be are probably right.（49 words）Lesson 22 A Glass Envelop Jane crossed the Channel last threw a bottle into the contains a piece of paper with her name and address on received a letter from a girl in Holland ten months write to each other regularly send
16、 their letters by post.（50 words）Lesson 23 A New House My sister will come to England next she comes,she will get a have a new house in the have invited my sister to star with is a very modern has get many large rooms and a lovely garden.（48 words）Lesson 24 It Could Be Worse I had just lost fifty fe
17、lt very told the manager about couldnt do began complain about this wicked girl came in with the money just had found it outside my is still some honesty in this world.（51 words）Unit 2Lesson 25 Do the English Speak English I arrived at a railway station in London and asked a porter the way to my hot
18、el,but he couldnt understand me. He understood me at last but I couldnt understand his answer. My teacher never spoke English like that. The porter said I shall learn English soon. Each person speaks a different language in England. They understand each other but I dont understand them.（67 words）Les
19、son 26 The Best Art Critist The writer studies art and paints a lot of pictures. Many people dont really understand modern art. Paintings dont always have a meaning. They are something pretty patterns. Young children not only appreciate modern paintings better than others,but noticed more also. The
20、writers young sister went into his room yesterday and examined his new picture. He had hung it upside down and she noticed this immediately.（67 words）Lesson 27 A Wet Night The boys put up their tent in the middle of a flied and cooked over an open fire. They told stories and sang songs after their m
21、eal but it began to rain so they crept into their tent. The boys woke up in the middle of the night. The tent was full of water so they rushed outside. A stream had formed in the field and flowed right under their tent.（68 words）Lesson 28 No Parking Jasper White believes in ancient myths. Car owners
22、 always park their cars outside his gate so he has put up No Parking signs but they havent paid any attention to them. He has put an ugly stone head over the gate. It is Medusas head. He wants her to turn cars and their owners to stone but she hasnt done so yet.（62 words）Lesson 29 Taxi Captain Ben F
23、awcett has bought a small Swiss aeroplane and uses it as a taxi. It is called a Pilatus Porter . It can not only carry seven passengers, but can land anywhere also. Captain Fawcett has taken passengers to many strange places. He refused to fly a businessman to Rockall. The journey was too dangerous.
24、（56 words）Lesson 30 Football or poloThe writer sat by the river last Sunday. Some children were playing games nearby. One of the children kicked a ball hard and it went towards a passing boat. The man in the boat neither saw the ball nor heard people shouting. The ball hit the man and the children r
25、an away. However, the man was not angry and he threw the ball back to the bank. （67 words）Lesson 31 Success storyFrank Hawkins was telling the writer about his experiences as a young used to work in a small shop as a used to repair bicycles bought his own shop in 1958 and he made spare parts for aer
26、oplanes in his employed a lot of people in a few wife came into the room after a wanted him to repair their grandsons bicycle.（68 words）Lesson 32 Shopping made easyA detective watched a well-dressed woman in a large store one bought a few small articles and she chose an expensive assistant wrapped i
27、t up for her and the woman took it with did not pay for it,so the detective arrested her. The assistant was her daughter. She gave her mother a free dress once a week.（60 words）Lesson 33 Out of the darknessThe girl set out from the coast one afternoon and was caught in a boat struck a rock,so she ju
28、mped into the swam eight miles that reached the shore early next had seen a light high up on the cilffs and she cllimbed found herself in hospital a day later.（55 words） Lesson 34 Quick workDan Robinson was had received a letter from the local he went to the is not worried any police have found his
29、was not only surprised but amused as bicycle was stolen twenty years was fifteen then.（44 words）Lesson 35 Stop thief!Roy is finding his new job as a bus driver saw two thieves in Catford Street were running out of a shop and Roy drove his bus straight at them,so they dropped the stolen money and got
30、 into a drove his bus into the back of their car then and damaged this he telephoned the men were arrested later. （64 words）Lesson 36 Across the ChannelDebbie Hart is going to swim across the English Channel is eleven and she is a strong has been trained by her will follow her in a small s mother wi
31、ll be waiting on the English swam the Channel herself when she was a girl.（49 words）Lesson 37 The Olympic GamesThe Olympic Games will be held in our country in four years time,so the government will be putting up new buildings just outside the Gunter has designed the buildings and workers will have completed the new stadium by the end of next Games will be held in this country for the first time and we are looking forward to them. （62 words）Lesson 38 Everythi
