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Unit 1 The Happiest Moment

Part 1

* Paragraphs

1. A paragraph 2. A title 3. A topic sentence 4. Details

* Key Words and Expressions

A. 1. place 2. baby 3. short 4. farm

5. entrance 6. container 7. rubbing

B. 1. worst 2. chased 3. lost 4. even

5. Frisbee 6. upset

* Writing Form

1. Title The Lost Kitten

2. Topic When I find something that was lost, I am even happier than before I lost it.
sentence

3. Details 1. looked under the car

(events) 2. looked in the barn
3. looked under the front porch
4. in a jar, there was my kitten

* Grammar Practice 1
A. 1. learned 2. were 3. took 4. met 5. asked

B. (Answers can vary.)

1. cried a lot 2. started to talk

3. had my picture taken 4. got a nice present

5. heard about an interesting video game

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Part 2

* Key Words and Expressions

A. 1. amusement park 2. fun 3. meal 4. merry-go-round
5. trampoline 6. rides 7. bright 8. parade

B. (Answers can vary)

1. Watching the parade. 2. I won a teddy bear in the game
3. my dog, Toto had a baby 4. I got a flu

* Practice Outlining
A. Topic Sentence: My family went to the park and had a special time.
Details: 1. I played Frisbee
2. chased our dog, Rover.
3. Dad told funny stories
4. ate our sandwiches
5. shared one sandwich with Rover

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B. Title: A Visit to Wonderland Park
Topic Sentence: Visiting the amusement park was the happiest day of my life because I had so
much fun.
Details: 1. I woke up early in the morning to get ready to go.
2. I went on more than ten rides including the merry-go-round and the roller coaster.
3. My mother bought me chocolate ice cream and my father bought me a big yellow
balloon.
4. We watched a special parade with wonderful music.
5. We had a big meal at a restaurant.

Part 3

* Practice Drafting

B. Topic Sentence: One day, I found a note at home, and that note gave me the happiest
moment of my life.
Details: I saw Dad.

C. 1. My father was a soldier in a war, and he was gone for two years.
I put my hand in the jar,
I took the paper out and unfolded it.
I was the happiest girl in the world.
I will never forget how Mom and Dad surprised me.
Now, every time I put my hand in the cookie jar, I think of the surprise in the closet.

2. One day, That day, Then,

* Grammar Practice 2
A. 1. went 2. did 3. wrote 4. came 5. was
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B. (Answers can vary.)

Subject: I, My grandfather, The cake, John
Verb …: had a great time, took me to the park, was delicious, found his bag

Part 4

* Practice Revising
A. There were other dogs in the park. First

* Grammar Review

A. 1. couldn’t see 2. heard 3. fell 4. started 5. didn’t take

* Revise
A. The weather as sunny and bright.
But I had the most fun bouncing on the trampoline.
Though I was ready for more rides, my mother said we had to go home.
On the way home, I asked my parents to take me to the amusement park again soon. I had a
wonderful time that day.
-Linking words: After that, Later

Unit 2 Legends Around the World

Part 1

* Paragraphs

1. A topic sentence 2. Details 3. A paragraph

* Key Words and Expressions

A. 1. difficult 2. big 3. person 4. pressed

5. opening 6. usual 7. dead

B. 1. strong 2. steel 3. grabbed 4. spear

5. impossible 6. bounced off

* Writing Form
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1. Title Hercules and the Nemean Lion

2. Topic Everybody said that the lion of Nemea was too strong to kill, but
sentence they were wrong.
.
3. Details 1. was walking toward his cave
(events) 2. threw my spear at him and hit him
3. tried to stick the knife into him
4. squeezed until he was dead

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Grammar Practice 1
A. 1. bought 2. sat 3. brought 4. sang 5. rode
B. 1. took 2. left 3. Did 4. won 5. spent

Part 2

* Key Words and Expressions

A. 1. journey 2. lost 3. resist 4. destroyed
5. escape 6. tie 7. control 8. return
B. (Answers can vary)
1. Snow White 2. Snow White and seven dwarfs
3. that Snow White’s stepmother tries to kill her. 4. Snow White is saved by a prince and
they married.

* Practice Outlining
A. Topic Sentence: A girl always drew pictures of cats, and a scary thing happened to her.
Details: 1. sent her to a temple
2. met a woman who told her not to stay in open places
3. drew pictures of cats
4. slept in a box
5. found her pictures covering a giant dead rat

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B. Title: Ulysses and the Sirens
Topic Sentence: Ulysses’s ship would be lost once he heard the Sirens’ song, but Circe saved
Ulysses and his men.
Details: 1. Circe told Ulysses her idea to help them escape the Sirens’ danger.
2. She told Ulysses that he had to be tied up.
3. Circe told Ulysses’s men to put wax in their ears. That way, they could not hear the
Sirens’ singing.
4. She told the men not to follow Ulysses’s orders.
5. Ulysses returned safely to his home.

Part 3

* Practice Drafting

B. Topic Sentence: A long time ago, my mother was a bear, but she became human with a lot of
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effort.
Details: He agreed to give them their wish.
Hwanung turned the bear into a human.

C. 1. My mother did not like the life of a bear.

After a short time, the tiger got tired of the food and left, but my mom did not give up.
My mom is very happy now that she is a human, but she says that sometimes she wants to
scratch her back on a tree and eat berries.
2. Also, Finally, Then

* Grammar Practice 2
A. 1. took 2. came 3. told 4. saw 5. bought

B. (Answers can vary.)

Subject: Kevin, I, The big lion, The girls, The dog
Verb: read about a giant, had a strange dream last night, cried, met at the part, barked loudly

Part 4

* Practice Revising
A. She wrote a letter to her parents. Finally, Later

* Grammar Review

A. 1. were 2. was 3. sold 4. became 5. made

6. hid 7. saw 8. made

* Revise
A. Ulysses was sailing home after a long journey.
Then, although he could hear the Sirens’ beautiful song, he could not control the ship.
He would tell them to go toward the music, and the ship would be destroyed.
Ulysses heard the music as they passed the island, but his men did not follow his orders
to sail toward it.
-Linking words: Next, Lastly

Unit 3 Extraordinary Phenomena

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Part 1

* Paragraphs

1. Topic sentence 2. Details

* Key Words and Expressions

A. 1. fact 2. complete 3. metal 4. circular

5. human 6. light 7. plant

B. 1. toward 2. narrow 3. visible 4. saucers

5. exist 6. huge

* Writing Form

1. Title Strange Disk in the Sky

2. Topic I will never forget the night I saw a UFO.
sentence

3. Details 1. saw a white light moving slowly toward me

(events) 2. as it came near, I heard no sound
3. changed to a long, narrow, orange light
4. it disappeared

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Grammar Practice 1
A. 1. None of 2. Almost all of 3. Most of 4. Some of
B. (Answers can vary.)
1. A few of 2. all of 3. some of 4. None of

Part 2

* Key Words and Expressions

D. 1. most 2. believe 3. shiny 4. crashed
5. movement 6. stood 7. scared 8. hurry

B. (Answers can vary)

1. I saw the same girl in my dream every night. 2. that some famous people are aliens.
3. look like reptiles

* Practice Outlining
A. Topic Sentence: People say that crop circles are man-made, but I know that’s not true.
Details: 1. went for a walk
2. Suddenly a strong wind began to blow
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3. saw a UFO rise into the air

4. hid in the wheat
5. huge circles in the wheat not could not be made by humans

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B. Title: John Drew and the UFO
Topic Sentence: John Drew became a believer in UFOs one summer night when he saw one.
Details: 1. On his way home from work, John saw something shiny in a field.
2. He thought an airplane had crashed.
3. He got out of his car and walked most of the way to the object.
4. All of the hair on John’s body stood on end. He was looking at a UFO.
5. He ran back to his car and hurried home.

Part 3

* Practice Drafting

B. Topic Sentence: My house looked like any other house, except that there were ghosts in it.
Details: The hair on the back of my neck stood up.
I was really scared. The man began to float toward me.

C. 1. One day, I moved into a house that was haunted.

Strange things happened in my new house.
I quickly turned to look, but no one was there.
I was getting a little scared.
Most of his body was white. His hair, though, was bright red.
I never went back to my “haunted house.”

Before that night, I did not really believe in ghosts. Now, though, I am a believer, and my
ghost stories are about real ghosts.

2. One day, One night, Suddenly, Then, Now, Suddenly Now

* Grammar Practice 2
A. 1. None of 2. Most of 3. None of 4. Some of

B. (Answers can vary.)

1. passed most of 2. passed all of
3. Andrew passed some of 4. Kathy failed most of

Part 4

* Practice Revising
A. I used to think that crop circles were made by humans.
I like a toy beam gun.
The UFO was very big and shiny.
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* Grammar Review

A. 1. Most of 2. All of 3. some of 4. None of 5.. most of

6. all of

* Revise
A. John Drew was like most of us: he did not believe in UFOs.
There was no movement, so he thought all of the people were dead.
John Drew was scared.
After that night, John Drew never said people were mistaken about seeing UFOs.

-Linking words: Then, Immediately

Unit 4 Great Inventions

Part 1

* Paragraphs

1. A paragraph 2. The topic sentence 3. Details

* Key Words and Expressions

A. 1. new 2. large 3. fasten 4. design

5. grow 6. injury 7. join

B. 1. mobile phone 2. expensive 3. impact 4. convenient

5. bandage 6. device

* Writing Form

1. Title Martin Cooper and the Mobile Phone

2. Topic Martin Cooper invented the first usable mobile phone.
sentence

3. Details 1. in 1973, showed his first cell phone

(events) 2. ten years later, made the first usable cell phone

* Grammar Practice 1
A. 1. can 2. could 3. was able to 4. can’t 5. can’t
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B. (Answers can vary.)

1. are able to ski 2. couldn’t swim
3. can’t fall asleep 4. can cook many different kinds of food
5. can live by myself

Part 2

* Key Words and Expressions

A. 1. chemicals 2. dangerous 3. blow 4. solid
5. explode 6. invented 7. accidental 8. skill

B. (Answers can vary)

1. telephone, we can talk with people who live far away.
2. the nuclear bomb, it can blow a small city away and kill so many people at one time
3. logical and creative thinking skills

* Practice Outlining
A. Topic Sentence: The Zipper must be one of the greatest inventions in history.
Details: 1. Whitcomb Judson
2. a device that could connect two things
3. invented in 1891
4. the clasp locker
5. zipper, clothes, bags

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A. Title: Alfred Nobel’s Dynamite
Topic Sentence: Alfred Nobel was a chemist who used his great skill to invent dynamite.
Details: 1. One of the chemicals he worked with was nitroglycerine. Nitro, as it is called, is a
very dangerous explosive.
2. Nobel and others used nitro as an explosive.
3. His brother was killed in a nitro explosion.
4. Nobel found a special powder that would work. He added that powder to nitro.
5. He named the new, safer explosive, “dynamite.”

Part 3

* Practice Drafting

B. Details: The gauze and the tape had to be cut to fit the wound.
The bandage used a piece of tape with the gauze already attached.
From a simple idea, the Band-Aid was born.

C. 1. His wife would often cut her fingers when making food.
Mr. Dickenson's company made medical supplies, but he could not easily put bandages on
his wife’s cuts.
He or she had to ask someone else for help.
Her husband was able to come up with a better bandage design.
There is an old saying: necessity is the mother of invention.
Mrs. Dickenson needed a better way to treat her cuts.
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Earle Dickenson fixed the problem, and now we have the Band-Aid.
2. In those days, Also, Now

* Grammar Practice 2
A. 1. c 2. b 3. c 4. a 5. c

B. (Answers can vary.)

1. Jack can stay underwater for a long time.
2. I couldn’t use the computer when I was six.
3. I was able to play bingo when I was ten.
4. My sister can speak Chinese.
5. Mom couldn’t give me the answer I wanted to hear.

Part 4

* Practice Revising
A. 1. a 2. c 3. a 4. c

* Grammar Review

A. 1. could 2. be able to 3. could 4. could

5. was 6. able to

* Revise
A. He could make many things with chemicals.
It can blow up if you shake it too hard.
Nobel tried to make nitro into a solid so that it would not explode so easily.
After Nobel invented dynamite, the number of people killed in accidental explosions was greatly
reduced.
Nobel’s invention was one of the most important ever.

-Linking words: After that, At last

Unit 5 Two Kinds of Sports

Part 1

* Paragraphs

1. alike 2. two subjects 3. similarities

* Key Words and Expressions

A. 1. sort 2. how 3. throw 4. ability

5. many 6. take 7. steady

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B. 1. similar 2. tackled 3. scored 4. strength

5. shape 6. goal

* Writing Form

1. Title Rugby Versus American Football

2. Topic Rugby is similar to American football in several ways.
sentence
3. Details 1. balls are egg-shaped
(events) 2. the ball is carried, kicked, and passed through the air.
3. players tackled to the ground
4. score points by moving the ball across a goal line
5. require great skill and strength

* Grammar Practice 1
A. 1. different from 2. similar to 3. different from 4. similar to 5. different from

B. (Answers can vary.)

1. similar to, handsome, am handsome, too 2. similar to, big and crowd

3. similar to, has many books, has many books, too 4. different from, like differen things.

Part 2
* Key Words and Expressions
A. 1. court 2. racquetball 3. equipment 4. require
5. indoors 6. wide 7. rules 8. energy

B. (Answers can vary)

1. basketball 2. a ball
3. must bounce the ball when running and must not kick the ball

* Practice Outlining
A. Topic Sentence: Sirum and Sumo are different sports, but they have a few things in common.
Details: 1. stand in a circular area
2. the referee blows a whistle to start
3. force the other wrestler to touch the ground
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4. Korea, Japan
5. traditional Asian sports

* Write Your Own Outline

A. Title: Two kinds of Sports: Racquetball and Squash
Topic Sentence: Racquetball and squash are two similar sports that are different in several
ways. Details: 1. The sports are similar in the required equipment and the courts they are
played on.
2. Both sports require a racket and a small ball.
3. Both are played indoors.
4. The racquetball racket is shorter and wider than a squash racket, and the ball is
larger.
5. The squash court is smaller than the racquetball court, and the rules of squash
make the game harder to play.

Part 3

* Practice Drafting

B. Topic Sentence: Water skiing and snow skiing are different sports, but they have several things
in common.
Details: The number of skis in water skiing is the same as in snow skiing.
Snow skiing and water skiing are similar, too, in their goal.

C. 1. Skiing is a very popular sport in the Western world. It comes in two main forms: snow skiing
and water skiing.
Both sports use long, narrow skis.
Two skis are used in both.
Both sports are the same in one more way.
One is a winter sport. One is a summer sport. Both types of skiing, though, are almost the
same in the way they are done.
2. First, Also

* Grammar Practice 2
A. 1. similar to 2. different from 3. the same as
4. similar to 5. the same

B. (Answers can vary.)

1. Summer is different from winter.

Part 4

* Practice Revising
A. 1. First / Firstly / First of all 2. Then / Next / Second 3. and

* Grammar Review
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A. 1. similar to 2. the same as 3. different from 4. different from

* Revise
A. They are different, however, in a few ways.
Racquetball and squash are very similar, and both require a lot of energy. Though I was ready
for more rides, my mother said we had to go home.
the slightly different equipment and rules make squash a bit harder to play.

-Linking words: Also, However

Unit 6 Special Events and Special People Around the World

Part 1

* Paragraphs

1. Thanksgiving, Moon Festival , Chuseok 2. a lot of traditional food 3. length

* Key Words and Expressions

A. 1. gathering 2. distance 3. once 4. reason

5. enjoy 6. country 7. celebration

B. 1. fall 2. bonfires 3. controlled 4. independence

5. free 6. age

* Writing Form

1. Title Harvest Celebrations Around the World

2. Topic All three countries celebrate the fall harvest, but the three holidays are
sentence different in age and length.

3. 1. the oldest, the Chinese Moon Festival

Differences 2. American Thanksgiving, the youngest
3. the longest, Korean Chuseok

4. 1. get together with family and friends

Similarities 2. eat delicious food and have parties
* 3. celebrate the fall harvest

Grammar Practice 1
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A. 1. the highest 2. the longest 3. the nicest 4. the noisiest 5. worst

B. 1. tallest 2. warmer
3. more difficult 4. the most exciting

5. the best

Part 2

* Key Words and Expressions

A. 1. adult 2. begin 3. law 4. event
5. religious 6. repeat 7. ceremony 8. local

B. (Answers can vary)

1. Ddeok guk, which is rice cake soup, New Year’s Day, visit relatives.
3. New Year’s Day 4. visit out relatives

* Practice Outlining
A. Topic Sentence: Most countries celebrate the New Year; however, the celebration dates are
different.
Details: 1. peace and good health
2. light barrels on fire
3. light bonfires
4. throw water
5. make all bad things go away, bring good luck

* Write Your Own Outline

B. Title: Coming of Age Day in Japan and Israel
Topic Sentence: Coming of age in Japan and Israel are celebrated in different ways.
Details: 1. Israel has one of the oldest celebrations, and it is called a “bar mitzvah.” On the day
a child turns 13, he must begin to obey the Jewish law.
2. There is often a special event. Young men have to repeat some religious laws.
3. In Japan, on the second Monday of January, everyone who is 20 on that day comes
of age at the same time.
4. There is a ceremony in a local city office.

Part 3

* Practice Drafting

B. Topic Sentence: Brazil, the Philippines, and Finland got their independence at different times,
but their celebrations are alike.
Details: They began celebrating their independence from Portugal in 1822.
All three countries celebrate by having parties, eating food, and shooting fireworks.

C. 1. Three countries that celebrate their independence are Brazil, the Philippines, and Finland.
That was in 1917.
Though the history of Independence Day is different in the three countries, the celebrations
are much the same.
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The people enjoy food and fun and think about how they became free.

2. One day, That day, Then,

* Grammar Practice 2
A. 1. the fastest 2. the most difficult 3. the best
4. the hottest 5. the most expensive

B. (Answers can vary.)

1. Seoul is the biggest city in Korea.
2. A blue whale is the heaviest animal in the world.
3. Istanbul is the most beautiful city I have ever visited.
4. My teacher is the tallest of all the teachers.
5. Joan is the nicest girl in my class.

Part 4

* Practice Revising
A. It is a more serious holiday in many Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia
I heard about it from my Iranian friends.
I want to visit Scotland some day.

* Grammar Review

A. 1. the fastest 2. fast 3. the fastest 4. the fastest 5. the fastest

* Revise
A. In most countries, a child becomes an adult at a certain age. In some countries, this event is
celebrated
Often, there is a large party.
People usually celebrate with a party.
People usually celebrate with a party.
Coming of age is celebrated in some countries. Japan and Israel both do it, but in different
ways.

-Linking words: During the event, Also