《提升英語（上）》分上、下兩冊，每冊12課，共24課，既可供報考高中起點的本、專科學生使用一年，又可根據實際需要用於各種類型的短期培訓。每課大都由預習提示（Suggestions for Preview）、正文（Text）、預習檢查（True or False Statem。Preview Check）、生詞及表達法（New Words and Expressions）、課文注釋（Notes Oil the Text）、語音（Phonetics）、語法（Grammar）、詞語用法研究（Word study）、課文練習（Exercises on the Test）、補充練習（Supplementary Exercises）等部分組成。
每部分既自成體繫，又與其他部分彼此關聯，編寫內容由淺入深，可滿足教師對各種層次的學生進軒“因材施教”的實際需要。

Lesson One
Text: First Impressions Count
Phonetics: English Alphabet & International Phonetic Symbols .
Grammar: Nouns
Verb Pattern ( 1 )
Verb Pattern (2)
Word Study

Lesson Two
Text: Olympic Games Set the Standard
Phonetics: Consonant Letters & Their Pronunciation
Grammar: Agreement
Verb Pattern (3)
Word Study

Lesson Three
Text: The Poisoned Planet
Phonetics : Open Syllables
Grammar: Time and Tenses ( I )
Comparison of Tenses ( I )
Verb Pattern (4)
Word Study

Lesson Four
Text: TMe of the Sands--A Philosophical Story
Phonetics : Closed Syllables
Grammar: Comparison of Tenses ( I )
Verb Pattern (5)
Word Study

Lesson Five
Text: Best Teacher I Ever Had (After David Owen)
Phonetics: Vowels in Non-stressed Syllables
Grammar: Comparison of Tenses ( In )
Verb Pattern (6)
Word Study

Lesson Six
Text: Alpha and Omega--Creation and Destruction
Phonetics : R-Syllables
Grammar: Comparison of Tenses (IV)
Verb Pattern (7)
Word Study

Lesson Seven
Text: Issac Asimov
Phonetics : Re-Syllables
Grammar: Passive Voice
Verb Pattern (8)
Word Study

Lesson Eight
Text: Darkness at Noon (After Harold Krents)
Phonetics : Double R-Syllables
Grammar: Adjectives and Adverbs
Verb Pattern (9)
Word Study
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Lesson nine
Lesson ten
Lesson eleven
Lesson twelve