Colloquial English

The Complete Course for Beginners

Gareth King (Autor)

Media-Kombination

308 Seiten

2014 | 2nd New edition
Routledge
978-0-415-83139-0 (ISBN)

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Colloquial English provides a step-by-step course in English as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in English in a broad range of situations.

Key features include:

progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar
an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises
realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios
useful explanations of idioms throughout the text
additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key and lists of irregular verbs.

This second edition has been extensively revised and updated throughout, and includes up-to-date cultural information, an improved reference grammar and revised audio recordings.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial English is a complete English Language course and will be an indispensable resource for independent learners and for instructors and students on TEFL and EFL courses.

By the end of this course, you will be at Level B2 of the Common European Framework for Languages and at the Intermediate-High on the ACTFL proficiency scales.

Gareth King, who is currently working in Further Education, has a background in Linguistics and is an experienced teacher odf foreign languages and English as a Foreign Language. He is author of Routledge's Colloquial Welsh, Basic Welshand Intermediate Welsh Grammar Workbook titles and is the Series Advisor for the Colloquials. He has previously authored material for OUP's Oxford Junior English titles (pub 1999), aimed at EFL learners in secondary schools.

Acknowledgements. Introduction. English spelling. IPA symbols. Grammatical terms used in this book 1. Pleased to meet you! 2. Where are you from? 3. Could you tell me where the bank is? 4. Have you got any bread? 5. What shall we do today? 6. Hello, could I speak to Vicki? 7. What date is it today? 8. Can I make an appointment? 9. I’ve lost my passport! 10. Which do you prefer? 11. I’ll see you at half past five! 12. You can’t be serious! 13. The people we met were fantastic! 14. What would you do? 15. I said you’d phone back later. Key to exercises. Reference Grammar. Irregular verbs—alphabetical list. Irregular verbs by type. Grammar index

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-415-83139-3 / 0415831393
ISBN-13	978-0-415-83139-0 / 9780415831390
Zustand	Neuware