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ISBN: 9781877074271
Size: A4 paperback with audio CD
Level: Intermediate Age group: school age students to adult
Other: Self study: Yes Answers: Yes Audio CD available: Yes (included with this book)
Teacher’s book available: Yes
Skills practised: Idioms & everyday expressions, spelling, grammar, pronunciation, reading, writing, dictionary use, learn about conventions of spoken English in business & social situations and learn strategies for improving listening skills and overcoming pronunciation problems.
Other features: Language reviews, Reference lists of everyday expressions, Phonemic Chart
Table of Contents Understanding Spoken English – Three – Student Book
GLOSSARY OF LANGUAGE TERMS
6 – 7
UNIT 1 OTHER CULTURES 8 – 17
Conversation with ‘everyday’ expressions 10
Focus on Spoken Language: 15 – 17
A) Noticing ‘weak’ forms in spoken English
B) we’re, were and where (and other words that are pronounced similarly)
C) A ‘cultural thing’
UNIT 2 SPORT AND HOBBIES 18 – 27
Conversation with ‘everyday’ expressions 20
Focus on Spoken Language: 25 – 27
A) Using the correct verb when talking about sport and hobbies – play, go or do?
B) Describing feelings and situations – adjectives ending in with ‘ed’ and ‘ing’
C) Expressing attitudes and preferences
UNIT 3 DIET AND FITNESS 28 – 39
Conversation with ‘everyday’ expressions 30
Focus on Spoken Language: 35 – 39
A) Uses of ‘on’ and ‘off’
B) Sequencing in storytelling
C) As the saying goes… (popular sayings)
D) Giving an opinion using : When it comes to…it’s a matter of…
E) Nouns used as adjectives
LANGUAGE REVIEW ONE 40 – 41
UNIT 4 THE ENVIRONMENT 42 – 53
Conversation with ‘everyday’ expressions 44
Focus on Spoken Language: 49 – 53
A) Definite article ‘the’
B) Uses of the word ‘take’
C) Phrasal verbs
D) Describing what is happening
Reference Pages – Phrasal verbs 54
Examples of phrasal verbs with ‘take’ 55
UNIT 5 FEARS AND PHOBIAS 56 – 64
Conversation with ‘everyday’ expressions 58
Focus on Spoken Language: 63 – 64
A) Word Linking in Spoken English
B) Word combinations – using the correct preposition
C) Plural nouns
D) Uses of ‘only’
E) Synonyms
Reference Page – Understanding Connected Speech 65
UNIT 6 PEOPLE AND RELATIONSHIPS 66 – 74
Conversation with ‘everyday’ expressions 68
Focus on Spoken Language: 73 – 74
A) Regular and irregular past tense verbs
B) Discourse markers in story telling
C) ‘So’ and ‘such’ to add emphasis
Reference Page – Irregular past tense verbs 75
LANGUAGE REVIEW TWO 76 – 77
UNIT 7 TALKING ABOUT SOCIAL ISSUES 78 – 87
Conversation with ‘everyday’ expressions 80
Focus on Spoken Language: 85 – 87
A) Giving conversational feedback & disagreeing politely
B) As the saying goes… (more popular sayings)
C) Grammar – reflexive pronouns
D) Asking for an opinion with a negative question
E) Incomplete sentences in spoken language
Reference Pages – Conversation strategies:
Agreeing, disagreeing, staying neutral, asking for clarification 88
Discourse Markers 89
UNIT 8 THE MEDIA 90 – 98
Conversation with ‘everyday’ expressions 92
Focus on Spoken Language: 97 – 98
A) The definite article – review
B) ‘That’ to refer back to a previous statement
C) Open ended questions
D) ‘You get used to it’.
E) Uses of the verb ‘get’
Reference Page – Phrasal verbs with ‘get’ 99
UNIT 9 BUSINESS NEGOTIATIONS 100 – 109
Conversation with ‘everyday’ expressions 102
Focus on Spoken Language:
A) Forming questions – review of the ‘rules’
Questions in Spoken English
B) Telephone introductions
C) Incomplete sentences in spoken English
D) Greetings and replies
E) The Negotiating Process
LANGUAGE REVIEW THREE 110 – 111
ANSWERS TO EXERCISES AND CROSSWORDS 112 – 123
REFERENCE LISTS – Everyday expressions with definitions 124 – 132
Reference Page – British versus North America spelling conventions 133
Phonemic Chart of English Sounds 134
