1. 本书根据教育部民国八十七年九月公佈之职业学校英文 I 、II 课程标准编写而成。

　　2. 本书共贰册，各十二课，适合职业学校一年级第一、二学期、每週授课2～4 节、4～8 学分之英文课程教学之用。

　　3. 本书配合学生学习所需，编纂简易有趣与日常生活相关的内容，包括个人关系、嗜好、兴趣与休闲活动、书信范例、文化习惯、社区关系、现代科技、文学作品介绍等。

　　4. 每课课文后之字汇(Vocabulary)及片语与惯用语(Idioms and Phrases)系根据其在课文中使用的意义，予以中英文双解，所有字汇皆註明词性，动词标示以及物(v.t)与不及物(v.i)，名词则说明可数 [c]与不可数[u]，并附有简易例句，帮助学生了解与活用各词汇的正确用法。

　　5. 为配合实际教学需要，每课之后还包括会话 ( Dialogue )、发音 ( Pronunciation ) 和句型与口头练习 (Sentence Structure and Oral Practice)。会话部份目的在教学生活用课文中出现的文法、字汇及片语，以简易的英语交谈。发音部份则由认识最基本的 K.K.音标、母音及子音的规则与不规则变化 到标准语调练习，希望同学能说一口正确的英语。句型和口头练习系借着将课文中出现的文法规则，由浅入深，由简到繁地作句型结构的分析，并配合口头练习，使学生能熟悉基本文法的 使用原则。

　　6. 本书每课均附有各类型的习题(Exercises)，包括课文内容测验、文意字汇复习、介系词、翻译及 文法。

　　7. 本书字汇之音标採美国语言学家J.S. Kenyon与T.A. Knott两氏所编着「美语发音字典」(A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English)之K.K.音标。

”You’ve Got Mail”: A New Way of Communication

　　Every morning when Joy arrives at her office, the first thing she does is to turn on the computer and check her e-mail. This morning, there were three messages for Joy: one was from her customer, Mr. Brown, in Tokyo, one from her pen pal Mei-li, and one from Susan. Mr. Brown asked Joy to send him a catalogue, because he wanted to shop for something from home. In her e-mail, Susan told Joy how wonderful her life was at New York University. She said that next week her American friends would give a party to celebrate her 22nd birthday. Mei-li’s message was about using the Internet. She told Joy how excited she was when she was chatting with her friends on the net for hours.

　　After reading the messages, Joy returns the mails right away. She sends an electronic birthday card to Susan to wish her happy birthday. She tells Susan that she will fly to New York next month on a business trip. She hopes that they will meet at that time. Then she writes to Mei-li. She tells her to send some interesting website addresses to her so that she can surf the Net without wasting too much time. To Mr. Brown, she e-mails him her company’s catalogue and expects that he will place the order that afternoon. Within twenty minutes, Joy completes her communication. She feels satisfied.

　　Now more and more people are choosing to communicate with their friends or customers via e-mail like Joy. People like to e-mail their messages, because they think it’s cheaper and faster than talk on the phone. E-mailing our messages via internet is becoming a popular way of communication as we are entering into the twenty-first century.

作者简介

张月珍

＊学历
　　美国南伊利诺大学英语教学硕士
　　台湾大学英美文学博士

＊现任
　　长庚大学通识中心助理教授

魏馥梅

＊学历
　　高雄师范学院英语学士
　　台湾师范大学英语研究所暑期班结业

＊现任
　　台湾省立基隆女子中学专任教师

Lesson 1
　Introducing Myself

Lesson 2
　Talking about a Movie

Lesson 3
　A Visit to the Hospital

Lesson 4
　A Trip to Alaska

Lesson 5
　Mr. Booth: A Happy Volunteer

Lesson 6
　”You’ve Got Mail”: A New Way of Communication

Lesson 7
　The Skin

Lesson 8
　Narcissus and Self-love

Lesson 9
　People and Food

Lesson 10
　Susan’s Plan for Losing Weight

Lesson 11
　How do You Handle it?

Lesson 12
　”Nurse’s Song” by William Blake