- Reading A: To Give or Not to Give: What Prompts Us to Donate to Charity?
- Reading A: To Give or Not to Give: What Prompts Us to Donate to Charity?(Vocabulary Focus)
- Grammar in Use: -ing forms — used as subjects and objects
- Listening, Viewing and SpeakingListening: Non-profit Organisations Founded by TeenagersViewing: Teaching Kids About CharitySpeaking: Suggesting a creative charity event for your school
- Reading B: Pay It Forward
- Critical thinking: Evaluating from different perspectives
- Writing: Writing a narrative to share your experience of helping others
- Further exploration: Exploring charity traditions of ancient ChinaSelf-assessment
- Reading A: Surviving the Earthquake
- Reading A: Surviving the Earthquake (Vocabulary Focus)
- Grammar in Use: Complex -ing Forms
- Listening, Viewing and Speaking Listening: Typhoon Mangkhut Struck Southern China Viewing: How to Survive an EarthquakeSpeaking: Conducting a Survey
- Reading B: How to Survive Natural Disasters
- Critical Thinking: Creating a Personlised Plan
- Writing: Writing an Expository Essay on a Natural Disaster
- Further Exploration: Role-playing in a Disaster SceneSelf-assessment
- Reading A: Stress
- Reading A: Stress (Vocabulary Focus)
- Grammar in Use: Infinitives 2 — used as subjects and predicatives
- Listening： Dealing with School Stress Viewing： How to Make Stress Your Friend Speaking： Giving a presentation on ways to relax
- Reading B: Anxiety and Teens
- Critical Thinking: Creating a solution to a problem
- Writing: Writing a letter of advice on how to deal with a problem
- Further Exploration: Designing a teen stress questionnaire Self-assessment
- Reading A: With One Small Gesture
- Grammar in Use: Complex infinitives
- Listening and SpeakingListening: Interview on FriendshipSpeaking: Conducting an interview on friendship
- Reading B: The Last Leaf
- Reading A: With One Small Gesture (Vocabulary Focus)
- Viewing: Peas and CarrotsCritical Thinking: The Value of Friendship
- Writing: Write a thank-you letter
- Further Exploration: Introducing classical Chinese poems to foreign friendsSelf-assessment
- Reading A: Stonehenge
- Reading A: Stonehenge (Vocabulary Focus)
- Grammar in Use: Appositive clauses
- Listening, Viewing and Speaking Listening: Living in the Land of the Giants Viewing: China's Chang'e-4 Probe Makes Historic Landing on Moon's Far Side Speaking: Conducting an interview on teenagers' curiosity about the moon
- Reading B: The Most Unknown and Mysterious Places on Earth
- Critical Thinking: Forming hypotheses and giving possible explanations
- Writing: Writing a survey report on how people view different theories of a mystery
- Further Exploration: Raising doubts about existing explanations of a mysterySelf-assessment
- Reading A: The Villain in the Atmosphere
- Reading A: The Villain in the Atmosphere (Vocabulary Focus)
- Grammar in Use: Emphatic structures
- Listening: Interview with a Young Environmentalist Viewing: Saving the World
- Reading B: Together for Our Ocean
- Critical Thinking: Evaluating solutions with criteria Culture Link: Carbon FootprintSpeaking: Giving a presentation on how to reduce carbon footprint
- Writing: Writing a proposal letter for the Green Club