1. 本書根據教育部民國八十七年九月公佈之職業學校英文 I 、II 課程標準編寫而成。

　　2. 本書共貳冊，各十二課，適閤職業學校一年級第一、二學期、每週授課2～4 節、4～8 學分之英文課程教學之用。

　　3. 本書配閤學生學習所需，編纂簡易有趣與日常生活相關的內容，包括個人關係、嗜好、興趣與休閑活動、書信範例、文化習慣、社區關係、現代科技、文學作品介紹等。

　　4. 每課課文後之字匯(Vocabulary)及片語與慣用語(Idioms and Phrases)係根據其在課文中使用的意義，予以中英文雙解，所有字匯皆註明詞性，動詞標示以及物(v.t)與不及物(v.i)，名詞則說明可數 [c]與不可數[u]，並附有簡易例句，幫助學生瞭解與活用各詞匯的正確用法。

　　5. 為配閤實際教學需要，每課之後還包括會話 ( Dialogue )、發音 ( Pronunciation ) 和句型與口頭練習 (Sentence Structure and Oral Practice)。會話部份目的在教學生活用課文中齣現的文法、字匯及片語，以簡易的英語交談。發音部份則由認識最基本的 K.K.音標、母音及子音的規則與不規則變化 到標準語調練習，希望同學能說一口正確的英語。句型和口頭練習係藉著將課文中齣現的文法規則，由淺入深，由簡到繁地作句型結構的分析，並配閤口頭練習，使學生能熟悉基本文法的 使用原則。

　　6. 本書每課均附有各類型的習題(Exercises)，包括課文內容測驗、文意字匯復習、介係詞、翻譯及 文法。

　　7. 本書字匯之音標採美國語言學傢J.S. Kenyon與T.A. Knott兩氏所編著「美語發音字典」(A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English)之K.K.音標。

”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.

作者簡介

張月珍

＊學曆
　　美國南伊利諾大學英語教學碩士
　　颱灣大學英美文學博士

＊現任
　　長庚大學通識中心助理教授

魏馥梅

＊學曆
　　高雄師範學院英語學士
　　颱灣師範大學英語研究所暑期班結業

＊現任
　　颱灣省立基隆女子中學專任教師

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