Bilingual Two-Way Speaking Practice: The All-New Classic Essential English Speaking 600 Phrases

Author: Wen Wen
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book will address our common difficulties, meet our shared needs, and realize our collective dreams. It offers a correct understanding of English and truly reveals the intrinsic patterns of the English language, making the complex simple and the difficult easy. Starting from simple English knowledge, it progresses step by step. It encourages truly thinking in English to understand, perceive, express, and learn English, achieving a natural transition from "Chinese" to "English." It breaks the conventional way of learning English by filtering out "known" and "unknown" through "dual shaping" and facilitates comprehensive learning through "bidirectional" study, making it time-saving, effort-saving, and highly efficient.
During the process of learning English, the study and mastery of spoken English are particularly important. Spoken language is one of the primary forms of language existence and the ultimate goal of language learning. It is an essential means for people to express their thoughts and communicate. One of the greatest challenges for beginners in learning spoken English is the lack of understanding of English expression habits. To help English learners improve their spoken English expression skills, we have selected 600 of the most commonly used high-frequency core spoken English expressions frequently used by people in English-speaking countries and compiled them into this book, hoping to benefit a wide range of English learners.
This book includes fixed idioms, polite expressions, and common colloquialisms (excluding outdated phrases, slang, and jargon). In terms of layout, it is designed to be concise, clear, and distinctive. The main text consists of typical example sentences, definitions, and additional examples. In terms of teaching methods, it not only helps readers learn spoken English easily and efficiently but also enables them to grasp it flexibly and firmly, apply it effectively, and achieve practical results.
(1) Typical example sentences are used to introduce the expressions being introduced. The expressions selected here are all high-frequency, commonly used core spoken English expressions. For example: "I really had a ball at your party." (I had a great time at your party! In this sentence, "have a ball" means "to have a good time" or "to enjoy oneself," which is a very common spoken English expression.
(2) In the definitions, the usage, precautions, synonyms, and antonyms of these spoken expressions are explained and described precisely. For example: "I'm not about to go out shopping in all this rain." (With this kind of rain, I definitely don't plan to go shopping.) Definition: This phrase does not merely mean the negative form of "be about to do something." The affirmative form means "to do it right now," and the negative form does not mean "not doing it right now" but expresses strong opposition: "there is absolutely no intention of doing it." In addition to the detailed explanations of the definitions, each entry is accompanied by rich example sentences, allowing readers to understand, truly master, and flexibly apply the expressions through these examples.
(3) Most of the example sentences in this book are sourced from English and American newspapers, broadcasts, novels, etc., breaking free from the grammatical patterns found in English textbooks. The expressions are flexible, vivid, reliable, accurate, and authoritative. Each entry in the book is self-contained, helping readers improve their English proficiency and speak English naturally and authentically.