Invincible All-Round American Idioms Beginner's Edition

Author: [USA] Bai Anzhu
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book is written by Bai Anzhu, a teacher with a Master's degree in Education from Harvard University, ensuring you learn authentic American idioms and gain a better, comprehensive understanding of the cultural connotations of English! The American idioms selected in this book cover a wide range of topics, 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 the lottery and attending parties, making it absolutely useful! 150 basic English idioms and expressions are paired with engaging dialogues and exercises, bringing color to idioms and expressions. This book is specially designed to help readers 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 English. The following 2 idiomatic exercises are designed to test learners' understanding and application of idioms. At the end of every 5 chapters, there is a reading unit, which includes an interesting story using all the idioms introduced in the previous 5 chapters, followed by 5 reading comprehension questions.