本教材編寫中把以英國歷史文化發(fā)展為線索，展現(xiàn)英國各段歷史進程中的國家概況，既訓(xùn)練語言技能，也豐富相關(guān)知識。涉及了系統(tǒng)的歷史內(nèi)容,幫助讀者了解英國各段歷史時期的重大事件，系統(tǒng)介紹英國歷史文化發(fā)展背景。
本次改版對難度有所調(diào)整，并增加教師資源包，以適應(yīng)不同層次學(xué)生的需要。根據(jù)閱讀材料的時效性進行增刪。改版中增加“互聯(lián)網(wǎng)+”因素， 通過二維碼呈現(xiàn)網(wǎng)絡(luò)資源，增強文化類教材的特色。
本套教材是國家哲學(xué)社會科學(xué)項目成果，獲得第六屆教學(xué)成果優(yōu)秀成果獎、遼寧省兩級教學(xué)成果一等獎。
常俊躍，大連外國語大學(xué)英語學(xué)院院長。主持并完成國家哲學(xué)社會科學(xué)項目“英語專業(yè)基礎(chǔ)階段內(nèi)容依托式教學(xué)改革研究”，主持并正在進行國家社會科學(xué)基金項目立項“內(nèi)容依托教學(xué)理論指導(dǎo)下英語專業(yè)整體課程體系的改革與實踐研究”。 負(fù)責(zé)的專業(yè)2010年獲國家特色專業(yè)建設(shè)點。
Unit 1 The Birth of a Nation /
Text A The Ancient Britons 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) /
Unit 2 The Normans /
Text A The Norman Monarchs /
Text B Feudalism after the Norman Conquest /
Text C The Doomsday Book /
Unit 3 The Early Plantagenet /
Text A The Rule of Law /
Text B The Canterbury Tales /
Text C The Crusades /
Unit 4 The House of Plantagenet /
Text A The Birth of Parliament /
Text B The Magna Carta /
Text C King John /
Unit 5 The 14thcentury England /
Text A The Hundred Years’ War /
Text B The Black Death and Wat Tyler Uprising /
Text C Wat Tyler and His Revolting Peasants /
Text D Joan of Arc—Maid of Orleans /
Unit 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 Ages /
Unit 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 /
Unit 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 Armada /
Unit 9 The House of Stuart /
Text A The Age of Revolution /
Text B King James VI and I /
Text C The English Civil War /
Unit 10 The House of Hanover /
Text A 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) /
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 Churchill /
Unit 14 Towards the New Millennium /
Text A House of Windsor /
Text B Live the Queen! /
Text C Margaret Thatcher /
Unit 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 /
Appendixes/
Appendix 1: Kings and Queens of England and Britain /
Appendix 2: Genealogy of the Monarchs of England /
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