| STARTING UP Well begun is half done | 5 |
| Lesson 1 Every summer has a story | 6 |
| Lesson 2 You change the world by changing yourself | 8 |
| Lesson 3 Back to school? | 10 |
| UNIT 1 Who opens a school door … | 11 |
| Lesson 1 Let the kids walk to school! | 12 |
| Lesson 2 Joyful school days | 14 |
| Lesson 3 We never stop learning | 16 |
| Lesson 4 Never leave those years behind | 18 |
| Lesson 5 A practice for the future | 20 |
| Lesson 6 It’s where our friends come from | 22 |
| Lesson 7 The child is what he is taught | 24 |
| Lesson 8 School is a challenge | 26 |
| UNIT 2 You are what you read | 29 |
| Lesson 1 A key to the world | 30 |
| Lesson 2 Never lonely | 32 |
| Lesson 3 A bright world is born! | 34 |
| Lesson 4 A book side for everything | 36 |
| Lesson 5 It’s time to cheer | 38 |
| Lesson 6 More than treasure | 40 |
| Lesson 7 Live a thousand lives | 42 |
| Lesson 8 Let your dreams go on | 44 |
| UNIT 3 Love life, keep fit | 47 |
| Lesson 1 You earn your body | 48 |
| Lesson 2 The body achieves what the mind believes | 50 |
| Lesson 3 Live healthy – live happy | 52 |
| Lesson 4 No time for exercise – plenty of time for illness | 54 |
| Lesson 5 Doing the best | 56 |
| Lesson 6 Take care of yourself | 58 |
| Lesson 7 It is a priority – not an obsession | 60 |
| Lesson 8 Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand | 62 |
| UNIT 4 Soundtrack of your life | 65 |
| Lesson 1 Where words fail, music speaks | 66 |
| Lesson 2 A universal language of the world | 68 |
| Lesson 3 Without music life is a mistake | 70 |
| Lesson 4 An explosive expression of humanity | 72 |
| Lesson 5 Music in the soul is heard by the universe | 74 |
| Lesson 6 The strongest form of magic | 76 |
| Lesson 7 Moonlight in the gloomy night of life | 78 |
| Lesson 8 Music has no expiration date | 80 |
| UNIT 5 Nation talking to itself | 83 |
| Lesson 1 The endless book, the newspaper | 84 |
| Lesson 2 To bring us nearer to … | 86 |
| Lesson 3 The press rules | 88 |
| Lesson 4 Schoolmasters of the common people | 90 |
| Lesson 5 Find the positive side | 92 |
| Lesson 6 Reason to smile | 94 |
| Lesson 7 A series of happy thoughts | 96 |
| Lesson 8 Window to the world | 98 |
| UNIT 6 Possibility and pride | 101 |
| Lesson 1 This royal throne of kings | 102 |
| Lesson 2 My folks were English … | 104 |
| Lesson 3 Under an English heaven | 106 |
| Lesson 4 England’s green and pleasant land | 108 |
| Lesson 5 An orderly queue of one | 110 |
| Lesson 6 First prize in the lottery of life | 114 |
| Lesson 7 There’ll always be an England … | 116 |
| Lesson 8 That is forever England | 118 |
| UNIT 7 Of gold and blue | 121 |
| Lesson 1 I am because we are | 122 |
| Lesson 2 Gemstone of Europe | 124 |
| Lesson 3 Where mighty Dnipro roars | 126 |
| Lesson 4 This place is our own | 128 |
| Lesson 5 My native soul | 130 |
| Lesson 6 Delicious land | 132 |
| Lesson 7 All that I am, I owe to my mother | 134 |
| Lesson 8 All rivers must have a beginning | 136 |
| EXTRA UNIT Nothing but a hobby | 139 |
| Lesson 1 Taking an effort | 140 |
| Lesson 2 Hobbies, hobbies and… more hobbies | 142 |
| Lesson 3 As many of them as possible… | 144 |
| Lesson 4 No matter how eccentric… | 146 |
| Lesson 5 Way too many of them… | 149 |
| Lesson 6 Keeping together | 151 |
| Lesson 7 A great choice to make | 152 |
| Lesson 8 Fussy or quiet? | 154 |
| Lesson 9 That’s all I do… | 156 |
| APPENDIX 1 Culture focus | 159 |
| Lesson 1 Sunny and funny | 160 |
| Lesson 2 Of valour and worth | 162 |
| Lesson 3 A fiction that became alive | 164 |
| Lesson 4 Filled with loving glow | 168 |
| Lesson 5 Getting absorbed | 171 |
| Lesson 6 Not for how you look, just for who you are | 173 |
| Lesson 7 Stand still, stand proud | 175 |
| Lesson 8 Be loyal to the royal | 178 |
| Lesson 9 The one and the only | 180 |
| APPENDIX 2 Everyday English | 183 |
| Lesson 1 Inviting and accepting | 184 |
| Lesson 2 Meeting and greeting | 186 |
| Lesson 3 Thanking and apologising | 188 |
| Lesson 4 Suggesting | 190 |
| Lesson 5 Talking about news | 192 |
| APPENDIX 3 Texts for listening | 195 |
| APPENDIX 4 Reference | 209 |