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... paid spectator – someone who watches a game ground – the field (or stadium) where a game is played action – what’s happening on the field match – a game between two teams live – at the time that ... exactly did you lose your passport? SHAMIRA: Oh, I didn’t notice until about half an hour ago, but I was in the bank at about 9.30 this morning BANK: Have you lost anything else? SHAMIRA: Anything ... [The checkout assistant greets them] C/ASSISTANT: Hello Have you got a dividend card? SHAMIRA: Yes – hang on it’s in my bag [Shamira looks in her bag for her card, and notices her passport is

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 05:15

... past simple: ‘be’ and ‘have’ The verb have is easy in the past simple: had /hd/; and questions and answers are done in the usual way: + I had an apple ? Did I have an apple? – I didn’t have an ... Candace hasn’t come back yet, has she? – No, she hasn’t. Candace didn’t come back yesterday, did she? – No, she didn’t. Finally, notice another use of do as an AUXILIARY – the policeman in Dialogue ... No, I really did see him. I was walking down the High Street and all of a sudden I saw Johnny! C ANDACE : What was he doing? J ENNY : He was sitting in a café reading a newspaper. I saw him through

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 05:15

... it’s a takeaway, but I’d rather have Indian when I go out What about you? STUART: Indian is my favourite And I don’t like Italian food at all ROSEMARY: Neither do I Dialogue 2 Hannah and Natalie ... poetry, and so does Gary – Diane doesn’t read junk mail, and Gary doesn’t either. Exercise 3 Look at the information in the box about what languages Jack speaks, and what languages Jill speaks Then ... quite sure’ See also Language point 89 • at all after a NEGATIVEverb means ‘completely’ – I don’t like Italian food at all means ‘I really dislike Italian food’. • favourite means ‘(the one) I

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 05:15

... ITV, which are increasingly in competition with each other. These days there are also many additional channels available via satellite and cable – you can subscribe to a service, and for a monthly ... you like a sandwich? – Yes, have you got one? And we also use one with ADJECTIVESto take the place of a noun Helen and the shop assistant are talking about tops; the assistant says: That green ... Leasa – we can get a bus at the end of the road LEASA: A bus? Look at the time, Vicki!! VICKI: [looks with difficulty at her watch] Midnight – what’s the big deal? LEASA: We’ll never get a bus at

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 05:15

... have a look at the clock: Notice that: • we say a quarter, but half (not ‘a half’) • we usually say ten past (etc.), not ‘ten minutes past’ which sounds rather formal • we always say half past, ... waiting for about half an hour LEASA: I’ve been stuck in a traffic jam since a quarter to one Half an hour is a period of time; a quarter to one is a point in time. Here are examples of words and ... we were meant /mεnt/ to means ‘we had arranged to’ or ‘we had expected to’ • stuck means ‘unable to move’ or ‘unable to get out/away’ Trang 10Compare what Sophie and Leasa say in Dialogue 3:SOPHIE:

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 05:15

... back and look at this again if you need to before reading through this Language point In English we also have a small number of ADJECTIVES that describe physical and mental STATES They all have ... We’ll probably stay _ several weeks – I expect we’ll come back to the UK _ the end of January in next in nearlyat Language point 69 – a-adjectives We learnt about STATE VERBS in Language point ... are the names of the months in English, with the number of days each one has: February (28 or 29) August (31) February usually has 28 days, but has an extra day every fourth year, which we call

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 13:15

... similar’ • at a distance means ‘not near’ • (It) can’t do any harm means ‘Nothing bad will happen if we do it’ Idioms • I’m off means ‘I’m going now’ Trang 3Here are some examples using all of ... have kept a back-up, surely? HENRY: If only! Language point 73 – ‘must have’ When Henry says in Dialogue 4: The hard drive must have crashed he uses must (not have to/have got to) + have + PAST ... came with full instructions and it was dead easy to set up PAUL: Was it expensive? DAVE: I’ll say! It was the most expensive one in the shop But I arranged to pay for it over five years PAUL: Are

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 13:15

... that has to be sorted out’ But the NOUN+ to-form structure can have other meanings as well Here are some examples: Can I have a book to read? = ‘Can I have a book that I can read?’ That is a ... the place [ and another one ] JAMES: And this must be the driver who drove you around SU: Yes We had two drivers – a man who didn’t speak any English, and a young woman who really did speak ... normally used to join sentences in colloquial English, although it is okay in colloquial English as a question word – see Language point 60 At the end of the dialogue Su says: The food we ate was

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 13:15

... SIMPLE and PAST SIMPLE, and in negatives, and in tags But do is also a verb with a real meaning In Dialogue 2 we see another verb as well: make. These two verbs have similar meanings and it is easy ... week I always leave very early for work, and I have yoga classes every weekend on both Saturday and Sunday mornings M/RESEARCHER: And finally, what do you think about the amount of TV you watch ... prepositions We saw in Language point 75 that we can change: We phoned the restaurant into The restaurant (that) we phoned Now look what happens when we add a PREPOSITION: We went to the restaurant → The

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 13:15

... Chinese, Cantonese, Trang 3Hindi, Urdu, Panjabi, Gujarati, Somali, for example, as well as two language which, like English, are indigenous to the UK: Welsh and Scottish Gaelic This cultural and linguistic ... things that are possible. Conditional sentences have two parts: a MAIN CLAUSE and an IF-CLAUSE There are two main types of conditional in English – C1 and C2 – and we are going to look at both ... nearly inhabitants – people who live in a place broaden – widen, make more broad as well as – and also indigenous – something or someone that arose or was born in a place rather than being imported

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 13:15

... ’ Dialogue 3 Sarah has dropped Dave at the station car park. Dave’s got a train to catch, and he’s late. S ARAH : You’d better get a move on, darling. If you don’t hurry you’ll miss the train. ... Unless is another way of saying if . . . not – Sarah says . . . if I don’t hear, but Dave says unless you hear instead of if you don’t hear. And Sarah could have said unless I hear. More examples: ... because she doesn’t know the number. Here are some more examples: [C1] If the train arrives late, we’ll have to get a taxi from the station [C2] If the train arrived late, we’d have to get a taxi

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 13:15

... already gone (past) (past perfect) In this example we are talking about an event that happened in the past (Dave arrived), and when that happened, something else was already in the past (Jenny had ... told me (that) she’d gone abroad ‘We’ll phone later’ They said (that) they’d phone later ‘We can call a taxi’ They said (that) they could call a taxi Notice that we can use that after said/told ... BEATRICE: We can’t go to Sicily this year ANDY: But you said ! 5 BEATRICE: Dave and Rhoda aren’t coming tonight ANDY: But you said ! Trang 56 BEATRICE: Anna doesn’t speak English.ANDY:

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 13:15

... Trang 6range – choice, selectiondaily – appearing every day style – general appearance and effect content – what something contains; the articles and reports that are in a paper coverage – treatment ... 4 Abigail is reading a dramatic news item from the local paper to Gary. ABIGAIL: Listen to this, Gary: ‘Two men were arrested last night after a car was stolen in the town centre Police said ... popular style and language, and covering news in rather less depth They have more pictures as well, and they sell more than the broadsheets These days one or two of the broad-sheets are also available

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 13:15

... Colloquial English The Colloquial Series Series Adviser: Gareth King The following languages are available in the Colloquial series: *Afrikaans *Albanian *Amharic Arabic (Levantine) *Arabic of ... Serbian *Czech *Danish *Dutch *English *Estonian *Finnish *French *German *Greek Gujarati *Hebrew *Hindi *Hungarian *Icelandic *Indonesian Italian *Japanese *Korean *Latvian *Lithuanian *Malay *Mongolian *Norwegian Panjabi *Persian *Polish *Portuguese *Portuguese of Brazil *Romanian *Russian *Scottish ... Egypt Arabic of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia Basque *Breton Bulgarian *Cambodian *Cantonese *Chinese *Croatian and Serbian *Czech *Danish *Dutch *English *Estonian *Finnish *French *German *Greek Gujarati *Hebrew *Hindi *Hungarian *Icelandic *Indonesian Italian *Japanese *Korean *Latvian *Lithuanian *Malay *Mongolian *Norwegian Panjabi *Persian *Polish *Portuguese *Portuguese...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 17:15

... there are a number of compre- hensive and reliable works readily available on the TEFL market, and at a reasonable price. I have made sparing use of the IPA phonetic alphabet (and in a broad rather ... them. regular verb – a verb that forms its past simple tense by adding -ed. relative clause – a clause that adds information about the main clause in a complex sentence: The man we saw yesterday is ... fellows. For a start, it is written in the target language, and an assump- tion of prior knowledge of the language must therefore be made. Nonetheless, I have tried to keep explanations simple and succinct, allowing...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 17:15

... like vanilla ice cream? A DRIAN : Yes. G ERRY : What about strawberry? A DRIAN : Yes. G ERRY : What about chocolate? A DRIAN : Yes. G ERRY : What about lemon? A DRIAN : No. G ERRY : And what about ... Then he wants to ask the same about other people – he says What about Gerry and Adrian? and What about Justine?. We use What about . . .? to indicate that we’re asking the same question as before. ... what’s her name? S HAMIRA : That’s Helen. And the man sitting with her . . . K ATH : I know his name – that’s Adrian, isn’t it? S HAMIRA : Yes – he’s our boss. Language point 6 – possessive adjectives Between...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 16:15

... – Really? Norman’s bought another horse – Really? Chocolate is an aphrodysiac – Really? More than a billion people speak Chinese – Really? Stuart adds Like me! to say that what Rosemary has just ... you? R OSEMARY : I teach in a primary school. Language point 9 – a /‘an’ and ‘the’ In Dialogue 9, Rosemary says I teach in a primary school – she uses the INDEFINITE ARTICLE with the noun because ... Lisa – ______ We use the DEFINITE ARTICLE the when talking about something that has already been mentioned, or that we know about anyway: James is taking a taxi to the airport Tom works in an office...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 16:15

... ______ a place an owner a time a person a choice a thing a reason a way/method Language point 16 – mine and yours In Dialogue 7, Fred says That’s mine, meaning That’s my latte. Look at these ... common WEAK PRONUNCIATION otherwise. Here are some that we have had already – if you have the cassettes/ CDs, listen again to the Dialogues we have had so far and see if you can hear the weak pronunciations. Full ... [–] Stephen speak Russian play the piano James drink coffee speak Russian Oliver wear glasses drink coffee Jenny play the piano wear glasses Language point 14 – forms of the verb There are five main forms...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 22:15

... Language point 20 – phrasal verbs A PHRASAL VERB is a VERB + ADVERB which together have a special meaning. For example, carry on in Dialogue 4 means continue – it has nothing to do with carry. Phrasal ... important thing about phrasal verbs is that they often (though not always) have a meaning that is different from the separate meanings of the verb and adverb. For example, turn up means arrive ... give let find make and the ADVERBS that go with them to make phrasal verbs are usually adverbs of place or motion: about away in over across back off through along by on under around down out...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 22:15

... eggs 2 ____ teabags 12 ____ newspaper 3 ____ loaf of bread 13 ____ melon 50 Language point 24 – ‘did’ auxiliary We have already seen do as an AUXILIARY in the present simple (Language point 12): Do you ... places where you can sit down and eat a meal pub – place where you can sit and drink alcoholic drinks and eat food railway station – place where trains stop could do with – need 46 A SSISTANT : ... is always countable! Another word for tin is can, which is used in the UK particularly for drinks. For an explanation of uncountable and countable nouns, see Language point 23 below. Language...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 20:15