Using scientific topics that appeal to college students, this text will firm up the fundamentals of the four language skills.

This integrated skills text is divided into five sections — health, environment, organisms, technology and the universe — with four essays in each, designed to firm up the fundamentals of the four language skills. Each unit contains a vocabulary check, true/false question, grammar questions, guided composition, listening and dictation exercises. The level rises gradually unit by unit. To aid understanding, each essay is followed by a notes section, and there are two columns with English expressions and scientific information.

Contents

Animals’ Sleeping Hours / The Mechanism in Hiccups / The Taste of Tears / Male Brains and Female Brains / Light From Fireflies / Merits and Demerits of Pyramids / The Birth of the Hawaiian Islands / Bees and the Extinction of Man / Herbivorous Horns / Sunflowers and the Sun / Trees of Greatness and the Greatness of Trees / Living Fossils / Electric Car vs Hydrogen Cars, etc. (20 units)