本套教材紧扣《中等职业学校英语教学大纲(试行)》、并参照目前普通初级中学所推行的英语课程标准编写。体现素质教育，注重能力培养，其起点与普通初中英语教学相衔接，是中等职业学校英语教学基础阶段用书。

全套教材共四册，每册分十个单元。每个单元的教学活动都围绕一个与学生日常活动相关的话题进行，由Warm—up、Listening&Speaking、Reading、Grammar、Wdting五个模块组成。本书是其中的第一册。

Unit 1 School Life

 Warm-up

 Listening & Speaking

 Reading

  Comprehensive Reading: American Schools

  Reading for Enjoyment: What Result Did You Get?

 Grammar: The Noun

 Writing: The Writing of a Title

Unit 2 Friends

 Warm-up

 Listening & Speaking

 Reading

  Comprehensive Reading: Friendship

  Reading for Enjoyment: What's a Real Friendship?

 Grammar: The Article

 Writing: Punctuation Marks

Unit 3 Food and Drink

 Warm-up

 Listening & Speaking

 Reading

Comprehensive Reading: Dining in the West

Reading for Enjoyment: The Origin of McDonald's

 Grammar: The Pronoun

 Writing: Dividing a Word with a Hyphen at the End of a Line

Unit 4 Hobbies

 Warm-up

 Listening & Speaking

 Reading

  Comprehensive Reading: Stamp Collecting

  Reading for Enjoyment: Watching the Clouds

 Grammar: The Numeral

 Writing: Types of Words

Unit 5 Parties

 Warm-up

 Listening & Speaking

 Reading

  Comprehensive Reading: A Sleepover Birthday Party

  Reading for Enjoyment: Celebrating Birthdays

 Grammar: The Adjective

 Writing: Choosing Words

Unit 6 Pets

 Warm-up

 Listening & Speaking

 Reading

Comprehensive Reading: A Faithful Dog

  Reading for Enjoyment: The Dog Sent Its Owner into Prison

 Grammar: The Comparative Degree and Superlative Degree of Adjectives

 Writing: General and Specific Words

Unit 7 Sports

 Warm-up

 Listening & Speaking

 Reading

Comprehensive Reading: The Most Popular Game in England

Reading for Enjoyment: Extreme Sports

 Grammar: The Adverb

 Writing: Basic Elements of a Sentence

Unit 8 Famous People

 Warm-up

 Listening & Speaking

 Reading

Comprehensive Reading: Bill Gates

Reading for Enjoyment: Jackie Chan

 Grammar: The Comparative Degree and Superlative Degree of Adverbs

 Writing: Types of Sentences (I)

Unit 9 Festivals

 Warm-up

 Listening & Speaking

 Reading

  Comprehensive Reading: Halloween

  Reading for Enjoyment: April Fool's Day

 Grammar: The Verb

 Writing: Types of Sentences (II)

Unit 10 Scenic Places

 Warm-up

 Listening & Speaking

 Reading

  Comprehensive Reading: Central Park

  Reading for Enjoyment: The Rainbow Bridge

 Grammar: Tense of Verbs

 Writing: Long Sentences and Short Sentences

Vocabulary