Preface
Contents
Introduction

Book One
Unit 1 Getting Jobs
Unit 2 Buying and Selling Houses
Unit 3 English Names
Unit 4 Traditional Western Wedding
Unit 5 Paid Hoilday
Units 6 & 7 Christmas Traditions
Unit 8 Managing Interpersonal Relationships in Different Cultures
Unit 9 Animal Protection
Unit 10 Medicare in Britain
Unit 11 Plague and Pestilence
Unit 12 British Newspapers
Unit 13 It Is More Than What a Word Can Say
Unit 14 The National Spelling Bee
Unit 15 Schools in the USA

Book Two
Unit 1 Friends or Enemies
Unit 2 Family Structure in UK and US
Unit 3 Fairy Tales
Unit 4 Greenhouse Effects
Unit 5 Pub Culture
Unit 6 Football
Unit 7 The British Countryside
Unit 8 Giving and Responding to Compliments
Unit 9 Archimedes and Eureka
Unit 10 Landmark Pop Stars
Unit 11 Examinations in UK and US
Unit 12 Traditional Western Wedding
Unit 13 Christopher Columbus and His Discovery of America
Unit 14 United Nations Headquarters
Unit 15 Age and Sex Structures in UK and US

Book Three
Unit 1 Gypsy
Unit 2 Salvation Army
Unit 3 Friendly Society
Unit 4 International Monetary Fund
Unit 5 A Pantomime
Unit 6 School Life����Grange Hill
Unit 7 The Monarch
Unit 8 The Commonwealth
Unit 9 How English Began
Unit 10 Marks and Spencer
Unit 11 King Arthur����A National�� Folk Hero
Unit 12 Recreation in the US and Britain
Unit 13 Skyscraper
Unit 14 A Brief History of Canada
Unit 15 Theatres of the Eiizabethan Age

Book Four
Unit 1 The Canterbury Tales and Medieval Pilgrimage
Unit 2 Buffalo in the US
Unit 3 Sorry�� I'm Late!
Unit 4 The Cowboy and Cattle Drives
Unit 5 Thomas Alva Edison
Unit 6 Come to Dinner!
Unit 7 Police Force in Britain
Unit 8 British Folk Heroes
Unit 9 The NeW England Yankee
Unit 10 D��H��Laurence
Unit 11 Dracula the Vampire
Unit 12 Impressionism
Unit 13 Famous Musicians
Unit 14 Do They Look Smart and Natural?
Unit 15 Globolization and English Speakers