Contents -- To the Instructor -- To the Student -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Hunan Chef -- Language Focus A: Phrasal Verbs (1) -- Language Focus B: Vocabulary in Context (1) -- Project Activity: Planning Your Own Restaurant -- 2 The Nixie Clerk -- Language Focus A: Nonsexist Language -- Language Focus B: Describing a Process with Vivid Simple Present Verbs -- Project Activity: Researching Your Ideal Job -- 3 Airplane Ashes -- Language Focus A: Parts of the Body Used as Verbs -- Language Focus B: Sequence Words -- Project Activity: Researching an Unusual Business -- 4 Chained Girl -- Language Focus A: Preposition Combinations -- Language Focus B: Features of Spoken Language -- Project Activity: Debating How to Fight Illegal Drugs -- 5 Senior DJs -- Language Focus A: Using Descriptive Adverbs -- Language Focus B: Using "Will" and "Going To" -- Project Activity: Preparing for an Aging Population -- 6 Advance Obituaries -- Language Focus A: Past Tense Verbs in Context -- Language Focus B: Using the Passive Voice -- Project Activity: Newspaper Article Presentation -- 7 Diaryman -- Language Focus A: Units of Measure -- Language Focus B: Vocabulary in Context (2) -- Project Activity: Survey on Writing -- 8 Passover Wine -- Language Focus A: Using "Would" and "Used To" -- Language Focus B: Using the Passive Voice to Describe a Process -- Project Activity: Researching an Ethnic Holiday -- 9 The Joe Franklin Show -- Language Focus A: Groups of Synonyms -- Language Focus B: The Language of Hype -- Project Activity: Producing a TV Talk Show -- 10 Kipperman's Pawnshop and Wedding Chapel -- Language Focus A: Phrasal Verbs (2) -- Language Focus B: Formulaic Language -- Project Activity: Planning a "Combination Business" -- 11 Woolworth's Lunch Counter -- Language Focus A: Time Prepositions -- Language Focus B: Nonstandard English.

Project Activity: Researching the Civil Rights Movement -- 12 Cynical Santa -- Language Focus A: Negative Expressions -- Language Focus B: Polite and Impolite Language -- Project Activity: Making Your Own Documentary -- Answers -- Transcripts.