... BBC news
on the radio because it's too fast for me and I can't
understand it.' That's a pity! When it's too fast for
you, when you can't understand it, that is ...
language? When you were 3 weeks old, or 2 months, or 1
year, did you understand everything? Of course not! But
you *learned* to understand by *listening*. Think about
it. You learned to understand ...
radio play. Let the cassette play. But DON'T listen.
Just HEAR. Your subconscious will listen for you. And
you will still learn. If you listen and try to
understand, you may block on one word...
... such as: Englishfor Education, English
for Finance and Banking, Englishfor Economics, Business English, and so on, so that they
can obtain technical terms and specialized knowledge for their ... learning English as most respondents (38/42) accounting for 90%
say that they study Englishfor finding a good job in the future. The remaining accounting
for 10% claim that they study Englishfor ... business course to be taught forEnglish
majors in Haiphong University
2.1.1. The course syllabus
The Foreign Language Department of Haiphong University consists of 3 major sub-
divisions: The English, ...
... Bank (2004) emphasizes the need for appropriate policies for
regional development, besides the importance of flexibility in labour markets, for exploiting the
forward and backward linkages provided ... attractive countries for FDI for past
two decades. All the three PICs were among the top 10 destinations for FDI in developing Asia-
Pacific region (Table 1).
Table 1: Top 10 Destinations for FDI in ... sản xuất
Thép trong nước sau khi gia nhập WTO.
BY
Nguyễn….& Howard….
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Course Leader: Nguyen Huu loc
TOPICS for Inter Econ Assignment
Chọn một sản phẩm xuất khẩu của Việt nam vào thị...
... Don't go away. For more information and for rates and
reservations, please stay on the line. We'll be right with you.
Now let's take a look at a brochure for The Hotel Royale, ... she could afford to travel
to the swimming competition.
13. Ralph was ______ for breaking and entering.
14. Mary was ______ for driving with her lights off.
15. The Rangels filed for ______ ... Intonation in Questions in
Statement Form 92
10
B English At Work: Dialogue-It's a Great
Day for Baseball! 92
10
C Build Your Vocabulary 93
10
D English Under the Hood:
1. Reported...
... these conversation
classes poses a daunting task in terms of designing a course that will serve to develop the
students' conversation skills. In order to effectively plan for such Englishconversation ...
Assignment
Another important facet of the course design forEnglishconversation classes is coming up
with homework activities that address and develop the students' Englishconversation
skills. This ... this course design week in
and week out will result in an Englishconversationcourse that lives up to its billing.
Facilitating EnglishConversation
Development in Large Classrooms
Gerry Gibson
This...
... just to yours. Plus it provides an oft-needed
review of the frequent problem of question formation in English.
• Try not to echo your students or summarize their comments.If you "help out" ...
ignore them and wait for you to repeat it more clearly.
Work on Everyone's Difficulties
• If you are doing a pronunciation exercise or discussing a false cognate for one
linguistic group ... with one for another group. This will help teach the
students to be patient with each other's linguistic limitations, as they learn that
while the problems may not be the same for each...
... Höõu Leã
Lesson plan forEnglish 8
II/ Practice:
* Language Focus 1: Talk about intentions with
“begoing to”
- Ask sts to work in pairs.
- Call on some pairs to perform before class.
Ex: S1: ... Nguyeãn Höõu Leã
Lesson plan forEnglish 8
13’
8’
Ask sts to do exercise 1(p20). The sts have to
work in pairs to put the sentences in the correct
order to make a complete conversation.
- Give the ... in dividually
Work in pairs.
Teacher in charge: Nguyễn Hữu Lễ
Danger in the
home for
children
Lesson plan forEnglish 8
10’
15’
answering the questions about what she is
doing.
- Model: a. what...
... language course /
Gareth King.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. English language – Textbooks for foreign speakers.
2. English language – Spoken English – Problems,
exercises, etc. I. Title. II. Series.
PE1128.K43 ... catalogue record for this book is available from the
British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
King, Gareth.
Colloquial English: a complete English language course /
Gareth ... bunker for populating a
significant proportion of the book; my fellow CaRPistas in cix:carp
for real and useful pedantry of a consistently high order; and of
course Adam, Liam and Jonquil for being...
... Vicki
• I’m is the short form for the
FULL FORM
I am.
And in Dialogue 3, Paul says:
you’re Mo
• you’re is the short form for the full form you are.
With verbs that have short forms (not only be but ... speech.
s-form – the
BASE
-
FORM
of the verb with -s or -es added: comes, goes,
studies, drives, stops.
short form – colloquial shortened forms of verbs, such as I’m for
I am, and wasn’t for was ... contain special
SHORT FORMS
of the verb be. Let’s have a
look at how they work.
In colloquial English – when we are speaking in informal situa-
tions – we use special
SHORT FORMS
for some verbs. So,...
... that there is no short form for questions: for example, instead
of he is we usually say he’s, but we cannot say ‘’s he?
’ instead of
is he?
(Most verbs in English don’t form questions in this ... very common way of doing this in English
– you start with Let’s and then add the verb in its
BASE
-
FORM
(the
dictionary form with nothing added):
Let’s go for a walk
Let’s phone James
Let’s ... number of idiomatic meanings in colloquial
English. In Dialogue 7, Su asks Is Tim off today?, and in Dialogue 11,
Rosemary says that Steve is off on a course – in this kind of-phrase, off
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... action
that happens regularly.
The present simple is easy to form in English: with I, you, we
and they we use the
BASE
-
FORM
of the verb (the form of the verb
without any endings, as listed in the ... and about the city, but not
about the taxi or the office – these are ‘new information’.
old information – ‘the’
new information – ‘a’/‘an’
We also use a/an to talk about one thing out of many, ... /əυz/. The s-forms of two verbs, does
and says, have irregular pronunciations: /dz/ and /sεz/.
We form questions in the present simple by using the
AUXILIARY
verb do, which is also used for the...