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... umbrella! 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1211 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211 115 Language point 48 – ‘what if . . .?’ In Language point 41 we saw how the PRESENT CONTINUOUS is often used in English to mean the FUTURE . Sometimes ... lightning umbrella – something for protecting you from the rain 116 Language point 47 – ‘can’, ‘could’ and ‘should’ In Language point 18 we saw the AUXILIARY could /kυd/ used with the BASE - FORM to ... main meaning of can is be able to: Can you swim? =Are you able to swim? I can speak English. = I am able to speak English. Dave can ride a bike. = Dave is able to ride a bike. Note that: 1 can doesn’t...

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... Gareth. Colloquial English: a complete English language course / Gareth King. p. cm. Includes index. 1. English language – Textbooks for foreign speakers. 2. English language – Spoken English – Problems, ... 194 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1211 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211 Colloquial English A Complete English Language Course Gareth King 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1211 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211 ... Colloquial English The Colloquial Series Series Adviser: Gareth King The following languages are available in the Colloquial series: *Afrikaans *Albanian *Amharic Arabic...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 17:15

... learn English all over the world, and they all manage pretty well with the spelling, because the more contact you have with the language, the easier it is. If you approach this aspect of English ... series, Colloquial English necessarily departs in some respects from its fellows. For a start, it is written in the target language, and an assump- tion of prior knowledge of the language must therefore ... you. 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1211 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211 English spelling You will see that sometimes phonetic symbols have been used to help you with pronunciation in this book. This is because English spelling (like French...

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... individuals). Language point 8 – ‘Let’s . . .’ When Rosemary says Let’s go . . . , shall we?, she’s making a sugges- tion to Stuart. This is a very common way of doing this in English – you start ... number of idiomatic meanings in colloquial English. In Dialogue 7, Su asks Is Tim off today?, and in Dialogue 11, Rosemary says that Steve is off on a course – in this kind of-phrase, off 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1211 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211 13 ... on a course 1 somewhere. But there’s his brother, Mike. He’s in computers. S TUART : Really? Like me! R OSEMARY : Let’s go and introduce ourselves, shall we? S TUART : Good idea. 1 off on a course...

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... ‘rise’, ‘get out of bed in the morning’ 2 work out = ‘do exercises’ Language point 12 – present simple There are two present tenses in English: the PRESENT SIMPLE and the PRESENT CONTINUOUS . Mark ... Vicki! R OSEMARY : Bye, Vicki! 18 Language point 10 – saying goodbye You may have noticed that none of the speakers in Dialogue 13 actually said Goodbye – in colloquial English this phrase is usually shortened ... also have said Me too!, Same here! or So am I! Here are some more examples: Posh and Becks are English – Like me! Terry’s a long-distance lorry driver – Me too! My brother’s an accountant – Same...

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... glasses drink coffee Jenny play the piano wear glasses Language point 14 – forms of the verb There are five main forms of the verb in English – let’s look at them quickly, using an ordinary REGULAR ... and James. J ULIE : How handsome they are! C HRIS : Thank you! Language point 13 – weak forms A number of very common short words in English have two pronun- ciations: a FULL PRONUNCIATION when ... talk – this is the same as the base-form, but with to in front However, a lot of common verbs in English are IRREGULAR in the ED - FORM (for example, speak changes to spoke, not ‘speaked’), and there...

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... dive! 10 birthday party ___ j Don’t make too much noise! Language point 18 – asking people to do things Instead of giving commands (Language point 17), we usually ask people to do things for ... moment’ Language point 17 – commands The BASE - FORM of the verb can be used on its own to tell someone to do something: Open the door Close the window Lock the door But in colloquial English ... dictionaries of phrasal verbs in English, with examples of all their different meanings. You have to be careful where you put pronoun objects (me, him, her, etc. – see Language point 5) with phrasal...

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... explanation of uncountable and countable nouns, see Language point 23 below. Language point 23 – counting and quantity There are two types of noun in English: ã nouns such as cup, egg, garden, book, ... gardens, books, mice ã are used in the singular with a/an: a cup, an egg, a garden ã can be used with numbers: three mice, seven books ã are used with many: how many cups?, too many books Uncountable ... 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 speak Italian? (present...

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... etc. 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1211 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211 61 Most dictionaries for learners of English will tell you when a noun can be both UC and C. Some books and dictionaries call UC nouns MASS NOUNS . Language point 27 – ‘don’t think’ In Dialogue ... _____________________ 9 Henry doesn’t read books. _____________________ 10 The students aren’t listening. _____________________ 58 Language point 26 – ‘two coffees’ We saw in Language point 23 that words ... is this? A SSISTANT : A bad one. Language point 25 – ‘have’ We saw got in Language point 24 – but got is also used with have to show possession in colloquial English. In Dialogue 3 the barman says: We...

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... chess? (order the food) Would you like to order the food ? (practise your English) Would you like to practise your English? (do some aerobics) Would you like to do some aerobics ? (have lunch ... What do you think, Nina? N INA : OK by me. We can discuss Danish cinema over some beers, can’t we? Language point 29 – making suggestions to do things There are a number of ways of making a suggestion ... coffee? ____________________ 3 I don’t like fish and chips. ____________________ 4 Are you like English food? ____________________ 5 James isn’t liking hot weather. ____________________ 6 Does...

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... Language point 35 – phone language Speaking on the phone in English is easy once you have learnt a few important phrases: ã Use ... question ‘Do you like fast food?’ at the end of Language point 33 – can you draw two lines to divide the answers into positive, neutral and negative? Language point 34 – choosing between two things, ... but I’m expecting him round later on. D AVE : OK – could you get him to ring me back? V ICKI : Of course. Can you give me your number? D AVE : I think he’s got it, but let me give you it now just...

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... meeting. C YNTHIA : Thanks. Language point 37 – ‘as soon as’ In Dialogue 3 the secretary says she’ll make sure Bob Watford calls: as soon as he gets out of the meeting In English we use the PRESENT ... his secretary. C YNTHIA : Hello, it’s Cynthia Palmer here. Can I speak to Bob Watford please? 86 (In American English people use this for both people, and say Who is this?) If the phone is answered by someone ... It’s Adrian e John Smith? 6 Could you get f that? 7 Is that g back later. 8 I’ll ring h speaking. Language point 36 – direct and indirect objects In Dialogue 1 Vicki says to Dave: Can you give...

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... about this and other holidays. Language point 41 – present for future James asks Henry: What are you doing over the Bank Holiday? He uses the PRESENT CONTINUOUS (Language point 21) to talk about something ... It’s important to keep your mum happy! Language point 42 – empty ‘it’ When we are talking about the time and date we use it as an empty subject (because in English complete sentences usually need ... Asking for things in English is easy. ______________________________ . 5 Setting fire to your nose is stupid. ___________________________ . 6 Learning Vietnamese is very hard for English people. _________________________________________...

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... for twelve o’clock. Language point 44 – more about phrasal verbs As we saw in Language point 20 in Unit 3, PHRASAL VERBS are an important and common feature of colloquial English. And we have to ... it back, I expect they’ll give you your money back. K ELLY : I hope so! Language point 45 – state verbs Most verbs in English are ACTION VERBS – they describe an action that lasts a short period ... expect belong love want smell think hate seem like State verbs work differently from action verbs in English – in partic- ular, they do not normally have a present continuous. Compare these two sentences: 110 ...

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... want to buy? ’ but What other books do you want to buy? not ‘What else books do you want to buy?’ And it is wrong to use else with nouns: The other books not ‘The books else ’ Shall we have another ... pretty useless, aren’t they? J USTINE : True. Language point 49 – more about state verbs In Language point 45 in the last unit we saw that state verbs in English describe a situation that exists ... Ferrari. 8 Dave (doesn’t see/isn’t seeing) his girlfriend this weekend. Language point 50 – -ing and to-forms after verbs In colloquial English there are different ways of joining two verbs together....

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Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 05:15

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 05:15

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 05:15