林語堂所著的《開明第三英文讀本(精)》適合小
學高年級及中學生使用，以短、長篇文章為主，內容
多選自中外經典故事，如《論語》、《史記》、《安
徒生童話》、《希臘神話》等，使得這套教材有著非
同一般的文化含量。

INTRODUCTION
GENERAL PREFACE
TO THE TEACHER
1.The English Class.Something New, Nothing New, etc
2.The Sphinx's Riddle (1)
3.The Sphinx's Riddle (2).A Riddle
4.Knowledge and Practice
5.Comes and Does Come, Etc
6.The Eel of Gotham
7.Parts of Speech."Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater".
8.To Do and To Be
9.The Story ofIo (1)
10.The Story of Io (2)
11.The Story of Io (3)
12.The Story of Io (4)
13.Subject and Predicate.Objects of Verbs and Prepositions
14.A Verb in Every Sentence.Feel, Grow, Become, etc
15.Why We Study
16.Apollo and Coronis (1)
17.Apollo and Coronis (2).Begin, Stop, Continue
18.Apollo and Coronis (3)
t9.Verbs Before Subjects.It ls, Isn't It, etc
20.The Fisherman and The Genie (1)
21.The Fisherman and The Genie (2)
22.The Fisherman and The Genie (3)
23.Infinitive and Prep.Phrases
24.Some Useful Phrases.By -ing, etc
25.The Greek People
26.A Football Game
27.May, Can, Must, Etc.Shall, Will, Won "t
28.Would, Should, Might, Etc.I Wish, I Hope, If...Should
29.The Spartan Training (1).Would Rather
30.The Spartan Training (2)
31.Verbs as Adjectives
32."To" and No "To".Let, Make; Heard Sing, Heard Singing
33.About Reading Books
34.The Barmecide's Feast (1)
35.The Barmecide's Feast (2)
36.Long and Short Vowels: the Eight Pairs."Jack Sprat", etc
37.English Vowels and Diphthongs.The Vowel Series
38.Su Ch'in's Salt-egg (1)
39.Su Ch'in's Salt-egg (2)
40.Phonetic Marks.Phonetic Analysis
41.Verbs as Nouns.Without -ing, etc
42.School Work
43.Ulysses's Coming Home (1)
44.Ulysses's Coming Home (2)
45.Ulysses's Coming Home (3)
46.Ulysses's Coming Home (4)
47."It ls".Possible, Necessary
48.Voice and Breath: English Consonants."Peter Piper", etc
49.Foreign Dress
50.The Story of Arachne (1)
51.The Story of Arachne (2)
52.The Story of Arachne (3)
53.Relative Clauses.That, Who, Which
54.Relative Pronouns Dropped.When, Where, Why
55.The Emperor's New Clothes (1)
56.The Emperor's New Clothes (2)
57.The Emperor's New Clothes (3)
58.The Emperor's New Clothes (4)
59.Mobbing the Umpire
60.In Which, By Which, Etc.Whose, Whom
61.Using Short Words.On, Off, Get, See, etc
62.Confucius and the Girls (1)
63.Confucius and the Girls (2)
64.Use of Subjunctives.Shifting Tense Backwards
65.Should Have Seen, Etc.Didn't Know, Should Have Known
66.The Piper of Hamelin (1)
67.The Piper of Hamelin (2)
68.The Piper of Hamelin (3)
69.The Piper of Hamelin (4)
70.The Piper of Hamelin (5)
71.That, If, Etc
72.Some Conjunctions
73.A Schoolboy's Diary (1)
74.A Schoolboy's Diary (2)
75.Pan-hu the Dog (1)
76.Pan-hu the Dog (2)
77.Pan-hu the Dog (3)
78.The Founding of Carthage (1)
79.The Founding of Carthage (2)
80.The Founding of Carthage (3)
SYNOPSIS OF GRAMMAR
I.REVIEW OF GRAMMATICAL FACTS
II.OUTLINE OF FORMAL GRAMMAR
LIST OF IRREGULAR VERBS
PHONETIC SCHEME
COMPARATIVE TABLE OF THE POCKET OXFORD DICTIONARY
PHONETIC SCHEME, THE INTER- NATIONAL PHONETIC
ALPHABET AND THE WEBSTER NOTATION
TABLE OF ENGLISH CONSONANTS
TABLE OF ENGLISH VOWELS AND DIPHTHONGS
WORD-LISTS FOR PHONIC DRILLS IN SOUND COMPARISON
PHONETIC TEXT: PRONUNCIATION IN CONNECTED SPEECH
CLASSIFIED GLOSSARY
GLOSSARY OF WORDS AND PHRASES