A complete English language course part 4

... 14 I’m going to sail to New Zealand in my yacht – Really? Norman’s bought another horse – Really? Chocolate is an aphrodysiac – Really? More than a billion people speak Chinese – Really? Stuart ... Rosemary. A NN : Rosemary, this is Marian – she’s from Brighton. R OSEMARY : Hello, Marian – what do you do for a job? M ARIAN : I’m a teacher. R OSEMARY : So am I! Where do you teach? M A...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 16:15

... Colloquial English The Colloquial Series Series Adviser: Gareth King The following languages are available in the Colloquial series: *Afrikaans *Albanian *Amharic Arabic (Levantine) *Arabic of ... Arabic of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia Basque *Breton Bulgarian *Cambodian *Cantonese *Chinese *Croatian and Serbian *Czech *Danish *Dutch *English *Estonian *Finnish *French *German *Greek Gujarati...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 17:15

... there are a number of compre- hensive and reliable works readily available on the TEFL market, and at a reasonable price. I have made sparing use of the IPA phonetic alphabet (and in a broad rather ... shy away from grammar, and a glance at the index will show how central a component of the course it is. In explaining the grammar in the body of the book, while aiming to keep techn...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 17:15

... Just answer yes or no, OK Adrian? A DRIAN : OK. G ERRY : Do you like vanilla ice cream? A DRIAN : Yes. G ERRY : What about strawberry? A DRIAN : Yes. G ERRY : What about chocolate? A DRIAN : ... 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 11 9 4 Where are Paul and Gerry? That’s ___! 5 Where’s Su? That’s ___! 6 Where are Ann and Tim? That’s ___! Dialogue 10 Shami...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 16:15

... ______ a place an owner a time a person a choice a thing a reason a way/method Language point 16 – mine and yours In Dialogue 7, Fred says That’s mine, meaning That’s my latte. Look at these two sentences: This ... words in English have two pronun- ciations: a FULL PRONUNCIATION when they are given special emphasis, and a more common WEAK PRONUNCIATION otherwise. Here...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 22:15

... bus.’ Language point 20 – phrasal verbs A PHRASAL VERB is a VERB + ADVERB which together have a special meaning. For example, carry on in Dialogue 4 means continue – it has nothing to do with carry. Phrasal ... – and Sasha says she doesn’t want to get lost again – she means become lost. Get is a verb with many different meanings in colloquial English – have a look in a di...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 22:15

... that sells meat greengrocer’s – shop that sells vegetables restaurants – places where you can sit down and eat a meal pub – place where you can sit and drink alcoholic drinks and eat food railway ... any bread left? A SSISTANT : Yes – we’ve got white and brown, sliced and unsliced. H ELEN : Give me a brown sliced loaf, please. Oh, and a box of matches, and a bottle of milk. A SSIS...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 20:15

... coffees’ We saw in Language point 23 that words such as coffee are UNCOUNTABLE (UC), and that this means that they: • can’t have plurals • can’t be used with numbers But in Dialogue 4 the waiter says: Did ... two mineral waters. D AVE : No. I didn’t have a mineral water. My friend had one, but I had another coffee. W AITER : Ah . . . sorry about that. You were right, and I was wrong. 56...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 20:15

... we can end up at the Indian for a late dinner? M IKE : Great idea. They can try out Indian food, and we can get a taxi back home. S ANDRA : I’ll go and ask them what they think. Dialogue 4 Andy ... Sarah and John are having a similar discussion, but they’re hungry! S ARAH : Shall we eat in or go out for a meal? J OHN : I don’t know – I can’t decide. We make like negative by using d...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 20:15

... restaurant and eating there takeaway – a meal bought at a restaurant and taken home to eat; also means the shop option – choice chips – potatoes cut up and cooked in oil order ahead – use the ... mean either eating out (which we’ll talk about in the next unit) or a takeaway – and in Britain there are usually plenty of choices either way. The cheaper option is a takeaway – going to a...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 05:15