内容介绍
本教材具备以下主要特色：
遵循了全新的教学理念
以英国历史文化发展为线索，展现英国各段历史进程中的国家概况，既训练语言技能，也丰富相关知识。
涉及了系统的历史内容
帮助读者了解英国各段历史时期的重大事件，系统介绍英国历史文化发展背景。
引进了真实的教学材料
真实、地道的语言材料，穿插图表、照片等真实的视觉材料，表现手法活泼，效果生动直观。
设计了新颖的教材板块
每·单元均包括课前热身、课文正文、课后练习、辅助阅读、专有名词列表、娱乐园地等。结构安排系统合理，突出学生的主体地位。
提供了多样的训练活动
培养学生综合运用语言和知识进行沟通的能力、逻辑思维能力和探索求知的能力。
推荐了经典的学习材料
在每个章节的最后部分向学生推荐经典的书目、影视作品、名诗欣赏以及英文歌曲等学习资料，延伸课堂教学，激发学生的学习热情。
作品目录
Unit 1 The Birth of a Nation
Text A The Ancient Briton and Invasions
Text B Anglo-Saxon England
Text C King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Text D The Venerable Bede (673-735)
Text E William and the Conquest Unit 2 The Normans
Text A The Norman Monarchs
Text B William the Conqueror
Text C Feudalism after the Norman Conquest
Text D The Doomsday Book Unit 3 The Early Plantagenet
Text A The Rule of Law
Text B The Feudal Way of Life Text C The Canterbury Tales
Text D The CrusadesUnit 4 The House of Plantagenet Text A The Birth of Parliament Text B The Magna Carta Text C King John Unit 5 The 14th-century England
Text A The Hundred Years' War
Text B The Black Death and Wat Tyler Uprising
Text C A Horrible Disease-The Black Death Text D War Tyler and His Revolting Peasants Text E Joan of Arc——Maid of OrleansUnit 6 The House of Lancaster and York Text A The Wars of the Roses
Text B The Mystery of the Princes in the Tower
Text C The Middle AgesUnit 7 The Tudor Age
Text A The Tudor Monarchy
Text B The Reformation in England (1517-1563) Text C King Henry VII Text D Henry VIII and His Marriage Text E Thomas More and the UtopiaUnit 8 The Elizabethan Age Text A The Reign of Elizabeth I
Text B Queen Elizabeth I
Text C Entertainment in Elizabethan Age
Text D Defeat of the Spanish ArmadaUnit 9 The House of Stuart Text A The Age of Revolution
Text B King JamesVIandI Text C The English Civil War
Text D Oliver Cromwell Unit 10 The House of Hanover
Text A The Hanoverian Monarchs
Text B Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Text C King George III Unit 11 The Industrial Revolution
Text A The British Industrial Revolution
Text B Machines for the Industrial Revolution
Text C The Consequences of the Industrial Revolution Unit 12 The Victorian Age (1837-1901) Text A Queen Victoria and Her Reign
Text B Everyday Life in Victorian England Text C Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Text D Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) Unit 13 The World at War
Text A The Great Britain in the World Wars
Text B Causes of World War I Text C Winston ChurchillUnit 14 Towards the New Millennium
Text A House of Windsor
Text B Long Live the Queen!
Text C Margaret Thatcher
Text D The Growth of Great Britain in Americans' EyesUnit 15 Wales, Scotland and Ireland
Text A The English Conquest of Wales
Text B The Story of Scotland
Text C The Ties between Ireland and the Great Britain
Text D History of Wales
Text E Duncan and Macbeth Appendixes Appendix 1 : Kings and Queens of England and Britain
Appendix 2 : Genealogy of the Monarchs of England
Appendix 3. Keys to the Exercises
