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A complete English language course part 1

Ngày tải lên : 20/10/2013, 17:15

... 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 ... Serbian *Czech *Danish *Dutch *English *Estonian *Finnish *French *German *Greek Gujarati *Hebrew *Hindi *Hungarian *Icelandic *Indonesian Italian *Japanese *Korean *Latvian *Lithuanian *Malay *Mongolian *Norwegian Panjabi *Persian *Polish *Portuguese *Portuguese of Brazil *Romanian *Russian *Scottish ... Egypt 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 *Hebrew *Hindi *Hungarian *Icelandic *Indonesian Italian *Japanese *Korean *Latvian *Lithuanian *Malay *Mongolian *Norwegian Panjabi *Persian *Polish *Portuguese *Portuguese...

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A complete English language course part 2

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 ... them. regular verb – a verb that forms its past simple tense by adding -ed. relative clause – a clause that adds information about the main clause in a complex sentence: The man we saw yesterday is ... fellows. For a start, it is written in the target language, and an assump- tion of prior knowledge of the language must therefore be made. Nonetheless, I have tried to keep explanations simple and succinct, allowing...

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A complete English language course part 3

Ngày tải lên : 24/10/2013, 16:15

... like vanilla ice cream? A DRIAN : Yes. G ERRY : What about strawberry? A DRIAN : Yes. G ERRY : What about chocolate? A DRIAN : Yes. G ERRY : What about lemon? A DRIAN : No. G ERRY : And what about ... Then he wants to ask the same about other people – he says What about Gerry and Adrian? and What about Justine?. We use What about . . .? to indicate that we’re asking the same question as before. ... what’s her name? S HAMIRA : That’s Helen. And the man sitting with her . . . K ATH : I know his name – that’s Adrian, isn’t it? S HAMIRA : Yes – he’s our boss. Language point 6 – possessive adjectives Between...

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A complete English language course part 4

Ngày tải lên : 24/10/2013, 16:15

... – Really? Norman’s bought another horse – Really? Chocolate is an aphrodysiac – Really? More than a billion people speak Chinese – Really? Stuart adds Like me! to say that what Rosemary has just ... you? R OSEMARY : I teach in a primary school. Language point 9 – a /‘an’ and ‘the’ In Dialogue 9, Rosemary says I teach in a primary school – she uses the INDEFINITE ARTICLE with the noun because ... Lisa – ______ We use the DEFINITE ARTICLE the when talking about something that has already been mentioned, or that we know about anyway: James is taking a taxi to the airport Tom works in an ofﬁce...

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A complete English language course part 5

Ngày tải lên : 28/10/2013, 22:15

... ______ 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 ... common WEAK PRONUNCIATION otherwise. Here are some that we have had already – if you have the cassettes/ CDs, listen again to the Dialogues we have had so far and see if you can hear the weak pronunciations. Full ... [–] Stephen speak Russian play the piano James drink coffee speak Russian Oliver wear glasses drink coffee Jenny play the piano wear glasses Language point 14 – forms of the verb There are ﬁve main forms...

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A complete English language course part 6

Ngày tải lên : 28/10/2013, 22:15

... 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 ... important thing about phrasal verbs is that they often (though not always) have a meaning that is different from the separate meanings of the verb and adverb. For example, turn up means arrive ... give let ﬁnd make and the ADVERBS that go with them to make phrasal verbs are usually adverbs of place or motion: about away in over across back off through along by on under around down out...

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A complete English language course part 7

Ngày tải lên : 07/11/2013, 20:15

... eggs 2 ____ teabags 12 ____ newspaper 3 ____ loaf of bread 13 ____ melon 50 Language point 24 – ‘did’ auxiliary We have already seen do as an AUXILIARY in the present simple (Language point 12): Do you ... places where you can sit down and eat a meal pub – place where you can sit and drink alcoholic drinks and eat food railway station – place where trains stop could do with – need 46 A SSISTANT : ... is always countable! Another word for tin is can, which is used in the UK particularly for drinks. For an explanation of uncountable and countable nouns, see Language point 23 below. Language...

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A complete English language course part 8

Ngày tải lên : 07/11/2013, 20:15

... sorry about that. You were right, and I was wrong. 56 Dialogue 5 Su is at the supermarket checkout, where the checkout assistant asks her if she has a card. C/ ASSISTANT : Have you got a MegaSave ... sentences all use have got to talk about possession – change them as indicated. The ﬁrst two are done for you. 1 Dave’s got a new car. [?] Has Dave got a new car? 2 You haven’t got a phone. [?] Have ... has already been mentioned, we can use one to refer to it again: Fred had a coffee , and I had one too I need a pencil – have you got one? I’ll have a beer – what about you? – I’ll have one as...

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A complete English language course part 9

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 ... Shall we (buy/buying) an ice cream? 4 How about (take/taking) a walk in the park? 5 Shall we (catch/catching) a bus into town? 6 How about (meet/meeting) James and Terry for a drink? 7 How about ... Later, Andy, Bob and Nina arrive at the cinema. There’s a huge queue! B OB : Look! The place is going to be packed out! A NDY : What shall we do? Wait and see if we get in, or give up and come another...

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