Contents
Unit 1 Learning and Living
Text 1 Discussion: Single-Sex Schools vs. Mixed Schools
Text 2 Doing Schoolwork in Your Pyjamas
Text 3 What to Do with a Learning Disability
Text 4 Why Do We Build Strange Places?
Text 5 What’s Good about a Messy Bedroom?
Text 6 Many Parents Lack Skills to Help with Homework
Unit 2 Discovery and Inventions
Text 1 Like Father, Like Son? Perhaps Not ...
Text 2 The Amazing Human Body
Text 3 The Time Machine
Text 4 What’s New?
Text 5 Hands on the Wheel
Text 6 Science Fiction or Science Fact?
Unit 3 Adventures and Wonders
Text 1 My London Adventure
Text 2 Julie’s Blog: Backpacking Round South America
Text 3 Four-legged Heroes: Animals with Amazing Abilities
Text 4 Extract from EVA 23: Exploring the Frontier
Text 5 My Dream Destination
Text 6 Tobermory
Unit 4 Experience and Growth
Text 1 Try to Be the Only One
Text 2 Extract from Wonder
Text 3 Digging for the Past
Text 4 Richard Turere: Inventor
Text 5 An Artist in the Arctic
Text 6 Mary Shelly and Frankenstein’s Monster
Unit 5 History and Culture
Text 1 A Love Poem in Stone
Text 2 The Spartan Training
Text 3 The Greek People
Text 4 The Silk Road
Text 5 Festivals Around the Year
Text 6 The Most Popular Drink in Britain
Unit 6 Media and Entertainment
Text 1 Who’s Who Online?
Text 2 The Companionship of Books
Text 3 The Pros and Cons of the Media
Text 4 Video Games for Kids: Win or Lose?
Text 5 A Good Night’s Sleep
Text 6 Someone’s Always Watching You Online ...
Answers for Reference