Perfect phrases for ESL conversation skills : hundreds of ready-to-use phrases that help you express your thoughts, ideas, and feelings in English conversations of all types / Diane Engelhardt.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : McGraw Hill, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: Premium third editionDescription: xix, 322 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781264285631
- 1264285639
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Main Library | World Languages Collection | 428.24 E57 | Spanish | Available | 33111010942809 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A handy ESL phrase guide that helps you converse like a native English speaker--now enhanced via app with audio recordings of key expressions
If you're an intermediate level speaker of English, you know that idiomatic speech, slang and other English phrases can create a barrier to conversing confidently in casual and work-related situations. In Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills, Premium Third Edition you'll find a phrase guide that allows you to say the right words at the right time in any setting with perfect confidence.
Written in an accessible, easy-to-understand way by a highly experienced ESL instructor, Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills helps you navigate idiomatic speech and nuanced conversation with hundreds of ready-to-use English phrases and example dialogues. You'll discover phrases for talking with friends, offering opinions, collaborating with co-workers, addressing misunderstandings, and more--including common slang expressions frequently used by native English speakers. Now enhanced with audio recordings of key expressions available online and via app, Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills give you the confidence you need to participate fully and confidently in any situation.
Features:
* Clear, straightforward style, geared specifically for non-native speakers
* Ideal level for intermediate ESL (nonnative) speakers of English
* Essential phrases to communication in any situation
* Helpful direction on idiomatic speech and nuanced conversation
* Useful phrase clusters that range from formal to casual speech
* Audio recordings of key phrases and conversations via app
Previous edition: 2017.
"Audio phrases and conversations via app"--Front cover.
Includes index.
"This handy reference will help you navigate social and business situations, with hundreds of ready-to-use English phrases and example dialogues for conversing with friends, collaborating with coworkers, and engaging those around you. And the new edition of this bestselling guide includes a new chapter on tele- and video conferencing, as well as audio recordings, available via app, of typical conversations and key phrase clusters throughout the book"-- Back cover.
Part 1 Phrases for conversation. Small talk ; Past experiences ; Likes, dislikes, and interests ; Objects and processes ; Problems and advice ; Decisions and goals -- Part 2 Phrases for discussions. Opinions ; Group discussions ; Serious subjects -- Part 3 Phrases for special occasions. Special occasions -- Part 4 Phrases for telephone and video conversations. Telephone basics ; Telephone messages ; Telephone business ; Telephone/video conferencing.