Comprehensive American Idioms - Intermediate Version

Author: Bai Anzhu
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book is personally written by Bai Anzhu, a Master of Education from Harvard University in the United States, ensuring you learn authentic American idioms and gain a better, all-around understanding of the cultural connotations of English! The book selects a wide range of American idioms, including everyday expressions and situational idioms, allowing you to communicate seamlessly and comprehensively with foreign friends through this shortcut. Various practical scenarios are used, such as winning prizes and attending parties, covering all aspects and being absolutely practical! Pairing 150 elementary English idioms and colloquialisms with engaging dialogues and exercises, this book makes idioms and colloquialisms come alive. This book is specially designed to enable readers to learn 150 English idioms quickly and enjoyably. Each chapter introduces 5 new idioms through an interesting dialogue. The dialogues use natural spoken English, and by presenting how Americans respond in different situations, they enhance readers' understanding of cultural connotations. Next, each idiom is accompanied by a meaning explanation. 3 sentence patterns are provided to improve fluency in spoken language. The following 2 idiom exercises are designed to test learners' understanding and application of idioms. After every 5 chapters, there is a reading unit that uses all the idioms introduced in the previous 5 chapters in an interesting story, followed by 5 reading comprehension questions at the end of the story.