Contents Contents
Unit 1 You¡¯ve Got to Find What You Love ................................1
Competence Building: Three Types of Multiword Verbs ......................................7
Integrated Learning in Action: When You Say Nothing at All............................10
Extensive Reading: ¡°You¡¯ve Got to Find What You Love,¡± Jobs Says................13
Translating & Having Fun ..................................................................................18
Unit 2 Should You Become an Engineer? ..............................19
Competence Building: Word Formation and Vocabulary Building .....................26
Integrated Learning in Action: How to Increase Your Vocabulary?...................30
Extensive Reading: Engineer Career Information ..............................................31
Translating & Having Fun ..................................................................................34
Unit 3 Many Engineers Are Licensed PEs .............................35
Competence Building: Parts of Speech and Their Syntactic Functions.............46
Integrated Learning in Action: How to Sound like a Native Speaker? ..............51
Extensive Reading: The Qualifications of a Mechanical Engineer .....................52
Translating & Having Fun ..................................................................................54
Unit 4 Think like an Engineer
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Competence Building: Think in English Way and Learn All the Way .................65
Integrated Learning in Action: Five Tips to Improve Your Writing.....................73
Extensive Reading: How to Tell If You Have a Great Idea?................................74
Translating & Having Fun ..................................................................................77
Unit 5 Work out a Logic Sequence Unit 5 Work out a Logic Sequence
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Competence Building: To Know the Unknown...................................................85
Integrated Learning in Action: How to Understand Native Speakers? .............89
Extensive Reading: Don¡¯t Try Just to Think in English¡ªSpeak It All Out Loud!.....90
Translating & Having Fun ..................................................................................94
Unit 6 Deal with Math and Visual Aids .....................................95
Competence Building: A Bird View on Grammar .............................................103
Integrated Learning in Action: How to Get a British Accent?..........................107
Extensive Reading: Data Visualizations ...........................................................108
Translating & Having Fun ................................................................................114
Appendix 1: Top 100 English Idioms.................................................................115
Appendix 2: Rules for Frequently Used Prepositions in English.......................133
Appendix 3: Roots¨CPrefixes¨CSuffixes ...............................................................136
Appendix 4: Simple, Compound, Complex & Compound-Complex Sentences....152
Appendix 5: How to Write a Complete Sentence? ............................................160
