《剑桥国际英语教程》专为非英语国家的英语学习者编写，是目前国际上最有影响的综合性英语教程之一，也是剑桥大学出版社在全球销量最大的教材。
《剑桥国际英语教程》采用“交际教学法”，强调在实际交流中培养语言的流利性、灵活性与精确性，它旨在培养综合技能，主要活动内容包括：主题讨论、语法结构、语言功能、词汇扩展和语音训练，给予学生最大限度的实践机会。
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Unit 1 Friends and family
A What kind of person are you?
B Every family's different

Unit 2 Education adn learning
A how can schools be improved?
B What's the best way to learn?

Unit 3 Cities
A Fascinating destinations
B It's my kind of city
Unit 4 Day and night
A Your energy profile
B Sweet dreams

Unit 5 Generally speaking
A What's typical?
B Topics of concern
Unit 6 Interpersonal communication
A Making conversation
B Personal secrets

Unit 7 Telling the news
A Stotytelling
B What's in the news?

Unit 8 Values
A Growing up
B The wisdom of age

Unit 9 Putting the mind to work
A Explorign creativity
B Ideas that work

Unit 10 The art of complainging
A That really bugs me!
B Let's do something about it!

Unit 11 On the other side of the wourld
A Culture shock
B Globe-totting

Unit 12 Dilemmas
A Public concerns
B How honest are you?