Practical English Intermediate Course

Author: Zhang Jicheng
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: This book consists of 28 lessons, divided into two parts. Part 1: Functional and Notional Expressions, with 7 units covering: wishes and hopes, likes and dislikes, certainty and uncertainty, worries and fears, agreement and disagreement, belief and disbelief, regret and apologies. It aims to train learners on how to achieve communicative goals through the use of communicative content. Part 2: Situational Expressions, with 21 units covering: public transportation, at the airport, on the train, at the gas station, at the hotel, sightseeing, at customs, at the post office, at the bank, at the hospital, at the cinema, at the library, at the office, at the hair salon, sports and hobbies, attending parties, attending meetings, giving and receiving gifts, computers and the internet, discussing laws and regulations, discussing the WTO. It aims to train learners to use the language they have learned for practical communication through simulations of specific daily-life scenarios. The book is arranged primarily based on real-life situations while also considering linguistic functions and notions. Each unit consists of eight parts: background information, basic sentence patterns, situational dialogues, listening, reading, and speaking, background notes, grammar, oral exercises, and vocabulary and phrases. The content is closely tied to real-life situations, with moderate difficulty and broad coverage, arranged scientifically and reasonably, integrating linguistic functions, notions, and situations.