Practical English Speaking

Author: Liu Xueyun
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book focuses on situational dialogues and covers almost all aspects of daily language, effectively meeting people's needs for daily communication. It emphasizes practicality, combining real-life scenarios in Qingdao to enable learners to apply what they learn. The material is fresh and interesting, sourced from the latest English and American oral language books. The language is fluent, natural, and vivid, reflecting the currently popular spoken English in English-speaking countries. The book is divided into 30 units, each including basic sentences, additional sentences, dialogues, vocabulary, notes, related words, and exercises. At the back of the book are appendices: I. Introduction to Qingdao; II. Qingdao's Policies and Regulations on Foreign Economic and Trade; III. The Olympic Spirit; IV. Major Olympic Sports; V. General Announcements; VI. The United Nations and Major International Organizations; VII. International Standard Time Zones for Major Cities in the World. At the end are the answers to the exercises. To facilitate self-study, the book uses English-Chinese (bilingual), with vocabulary annotated with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The notes help readers overcome difficulties in dialogues and understand the content correctly. The book selects 900 daily spoken sentences, allowing readers to learn sentence patterns through sentences and memorize them in context. This book is suitable for both English beginners and college/university students with a certain level of English proficiency, as well as English workers.