1+X Speak English Communicative Situational Dialogues (with CD-ROM)

Author: Chang Junyue, Ma Lidong
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Publish Date: 2000-11-01
Features: Dear readers, perhaps like many of you, you have struggled for years to master English. Maybe you have been lost in the maze of English grammar rules for a long time. Maybe the progress of the times has made you realize— the ultimate goal of learning English is not to pass exams, but to communicate successfully. Maybe you have already started your new efforts, then your understanding and efforts are a good beginning! As the saying goes, "Say what the person can understand," "Sing different songs on different mountains," and "Express the same idea in different ways." In communicative teaching theory, the "people" and "mountains" here refer to "situations": the "different ways of saying" refer to the fact that one idea (1) can be expressed in multiple (X) ways. If you don’t pay attention to the communicative context when learning a language, the language cannot be appropriate; if you don’t pay attention to the diversity of expression when learning a language, the language cannot be rich. The common point between these Chinese proverbs and communicative teaching theory is the emphasis on the importance of communication and the necessity of multiple expressions. "1+X Spontaneous English Communication" was written under the guidance of these ideas, based on the actual needs of English learners. This book highlights the following features in its writing:
- Classifying actual English communicative situations;
- Dividing different communicative situations into various communicative scenes;
- Setting up practical communicative sentences and sentence patterns in Chinese for each scene;
- Selecting appropriate English expressions for communicative sentences and patterns;
- Providing multiple English expressions for communicative sentences and patterns to enrich readers' communicative language;
- Marking replaceable parts in communicative sentences in italics for easy reference and generalization by readers;
- Supplying necessary definitions for potentially unfamiliar words to facilitate learning;
- Providing appropriate explanations for communicative knowledge, background knowledge, and cultural points;
- Including authentic English recordings by foreign experts.
This book is systematic, practical, and rich in content. I hope you memorize the common spoken sentence patterns, imitate them frequently, and practice them often. In this way, you will be able to speak spontaneously and accurately express your thoughts in future communications.