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Collins English for Life : Listening. Do you understand textbook English recordings but struggle to understand what you hear in real English situations? To improve your listening skills, you need to hear real conversations. That's why Collins Listening is based entirely on 38 authentic everyday interactions to make sure that everything you learn is useful. From buying a mobile phone to asking for directions, joining a gym to understanding transport announcements, Listening will help you understand what is said to you, whatever the circumstances. Collins English for Life : Writing. Are you com for table writing English in the classroom but nervous about writing in the real world? To write confidently in English you need to practise different styles of written English . Collins Writing helps you recognize different styles and choose the right language to get your message across. The twenty units focus on a wide variety of texts so that you can feel just as com for t...

Collins English for Life: Speaking. To improve your speaking skills you need to learn how to get your message across in the right way and make sure people understand what you say. With Collins Speaking you will learn what to say and how to say it, by practising the right words, phrases and pronunciation. Includes practice on: - meeting new people - buying and ordering things - speaking on the phone - apologizing - asking for and giving opinions - making a complaint - agreeing and disagreeing; - Twenty units with a clear design in full colour. - Recordings of both native and non-native speakers of English, covering a wide variety of accents from around the world. - Appendices contain detailed advice targeting specific speaking skills. - Mini-dictionary with definitions of the most difficult words in each unit, taken from the Collins COBUILD dictionary. - Answer key Collins Speaking is part of the English for Life series. It is suitable for self-study and classroom use, and can ...

Communication skills in American English. Self-study. The Student's Book focuses on a language function-such as requesting information, thanking, complimenting, and inviting-while readings explain the cultural "rules" students need to know to communicate naturally and effectively. Structured exercises, as well as freer role plays, often involve pairs or small groups and encourage interaction in the classroom. Review ' ... presents useful information for helping students learn the situational use of language. Explanations are clear ... and easily understood. The dialogues are well constructed ... and the tapes generally contain very natural sounding language.' Noticias ' ... the dialogues are varied, interesting, and authentic ... No matter what level your conversation class is, Speaking Naturally is a text you will want to consider.' Illinois TESOL/BE Book Description The Student's Book focuses on a language function-such as requesting information, tha...

This series presents key issues in English Language Teaching today, to help you keep in touch with topics raised in recent educational reforms.  The books all contain a mixture of analysis, development work, ideas and photocopiable resources for the classroom. The key note throughout is what is practical, realistic and easy to implement. Our aim is to provide a useful resource which will help you to develop your own teaching and to enjoy it more. The Link helping_students_to_speak.pdf 18.5 MB

Progressive Skills Levels 1-4 (+Audio) The Links Listening & Speaking Reading Writing

Progressive Skills Levels 1-4 (+Audio) The Links Listening & Speaking Reading Writing

The Links progressive_skills_L1_listening_speaking_SB+WB.pdf 27.6 MB Progressive Skills_L1_Listening_Speaking_SB+WB_CDs.7z 161.8 MB progressive_skills_level_2_listening_speaking_course_book_workbook.pdf 28.3 MB Progressive Skills_L2_SB+WB_CDs.7z 191.6 MB progressive_skills_L3_listening_speaking_SB+WB.pdf 31.7 MB progressive_skills_level_3_listening_speaking_SB+WB_CDs.7z 170.6 MB progressive_skills_level_4_listening_speaking_SB+WB.pdf 42 MB Progressive_Skills_Level_4_CDs_1-2.7z 122.6 MB Progressive_Skills_Level_4_CDs_3-4.7z 102.2 MB

The best-selling How to Say It® is now better than ever. The second edition of this one-of-a-kind book has been updated with ten new chapters-that’s fifty chapters in all-offering readers even more material for quickly and effortlessly constructing original, effective letters. How to Say It® provides short lists of what to say, and sometimes more importantly, what not to say when writing business or personal letters. It begins with examples of why and when certain letters are appropriate, tips on writing the letter, and advice for special situations. It then offers sample words and phases for each type of correspondence, as well as examples of sentences and paragraphs that are best suited for the task. Finally, it provides full sample letters giving readers a sense of what to look for in the final product. Includes appendices offering tips on etiquette, formatting, and grammar. The Links Rosalie_Maggio]_How_to_Say_It__Choice_Words,_Phra.pdf

"Reading the News" is designed to help students improve and develop their reading comprehension and general language skills for reading newspapers. The book contains 24 high-interest, authentic, and challenging articles from the International Herald Tribune – The World’s Daily Newspaper. Each article is accompanied by useful and supporting materials; the purpose of which is to aid student’s understanding. The LINKS Reading the News 44.1 MB Reading the News 14.7 MB Reading the News - Instructor's Manual 7.3 MB Newspaper Articles to Get Teenagers Talking 3.4 MB

The Links  Just_Grammar_--_Pre-Intermediate.pdf 59.7 MB Just_Listening_and_Speaking_--_Pre-Intermediate.7z 61.3 MB Just_Listening_and_Speaking_--_Pre-Intermediate.pdf 13.7 MB Just_Vocabulary_--_Pre-Intermediate.pdf 17 MB Just_Vocabulary_--_Pre-Intermediate_Audio.7z 36.8 MB

The Primary Box Series in the Cambridge Copy Collection is a set of six independent books that provide a host of very solid tasks for your younger learners. Each book contains 50-70 photocopiable activities, each with a teacher's page that gives the activity type, the skills focus, the language focus, level, age range, time & materials.  Then there is the detailed 'before class', 'in class' & 'extension' information. The Map of each book is clearly set out, making activities easy to locate, & the introduction passes on sensible ideas on using the book . You really cannot go wrong with the activity outline. The quality of the black & white photocopiable pages is excellent, nicely laid out & generally appealing. Click here to download  

E4 is a series of 32 flexible vocabulary development lessons each focusing on an everyday concept and brainstorming other words that describe the concept. Each activity can be used for a few minutes a day over the course of a week. The heart of each E4 vocabulary lesson is the word web, describing in detail various meanings of each word and showing other words with similar meanings, plus idioms, common phrases and a unique E4 feature called the Spanish Connection that shows English-Spanish cognates relating to each word. Each lesson also includes a morphology web that summarizes word changes such as inflected endings, prefixes, suffixes and compound words. We provide two versions of the webs for each lesson, one filled-in and one with blank boxes. These can be projected using an interactive whiteboard or as overheads (they’re even simple enough to redraw on a blackboard), making possible a variety of flexible usage scenarios. You can also adapt the blank form for use as a worksheet. A ...

Integrated Skills Work and Language Practice provides with authentic practice in all aspects of English: reading, speaking, listening and writing.  Designed to develop real-life communicative skills on the basis of contextualized vocabulary. Click here to download  

One way to pass your speaking part in exams is to familiarize yourself with natural connectors in speech. These differ from those in writing and are used in conversations to fill in awkward gaps, to link ideas to earlier statements and questions, and keep the conversation flowing.  When asked for your opinion, natural fillers include sounds of hesitation, expressions of surprise at the question, or comments that are later followed by an answer. • I can’t tell you that with certainty, but....  • That’s a tough/interesting/good/tricky question. • Let's see.... • Oh, let me think about that for a moment. • To be honest.... • Offhand, I’d say… • In a way ... • So to speak ... • Without any doubt... • Wow, I really have no idea what to say.  • It's a tough question, let me think... • As far as I’m concerned… • I've never been asked that before. Let me think... • I've never thought about that, actually.  • It was just on the tip of my tongue... • Oh, it has slipped my mind...

1. Don’t Be too Ashamed to Speak By believing that you can’t speak English you close your mind to trying, and never give yourself the opportunity to improve. There is only one way to learn how to speak English, and that is to open your mouth and speak English! The only way you will ever get better at speaking is by speaking, and speaking a lot! 22. Don’t Be Afraid of Making Mistakes This may sound funny, but you should try making as many mistakes as possible. If you are making mistakes that means you are actually speaking English and improving. Of course, you shouldn’t intentionally make them, and you should try to be aware of your mistakes so you can learn from them and improve your skills. 33. Don’t get frustrated with yourself Learning English will come with a certain amount of frustration. At some point, you will come to a stage where you won’t be able to fully express yourself like you would be able to in your native language, and there will be times when you won’t be able to find...

This book helps you to learn by yourselfe English conversation and pronounciation in everyday situations such as at the bank,hotel,post-office,railway station,market place,bookshop and so on. Click here to download  

All Clear teaches students to recognize and produce the high-frequency idioms, phrases, and contemporary expressions needed in a range of conversational situations.  Each lesson focuses initially on chunks of language in the form of idioms and other expressions (collocations) and then provides many structured and communicative activities for speaking, listening, grammar, writing, pronunciation, and public speaking practice. The Links all_clear_1_listening_and_speaking.pdf PDF file, 64.6 MB all_clear_1_listening_and_speaking_CDs.7z 7Z file, 85.8 MB all_clear_2_listening_and_speaking.pdf PDF file, 88.3 MB all_clear_2_listening_and_speaking_CDs.7z 7Z file, 119.3 MB all_clear_3_listening_and_speaking.pdf PDF file, 88 MB all_clear_3_listening_and_speaking_CDs.7z 7Z file, 97.5 MB

All Clear teaches students to recognize and produce the high-frequency idioms, phrases, and contemporary expressions needed in a range of conversational situations.  Each lesson focuses initially on chunks of language in the form of idioms and other expressions (collocations) and then provides many structured and communicative activities for speaking, listening, grammar, writing, pronunciation, and public speaking practice. Click here to get the Links  

Are you learning English and struggle to talk or say the right thing? Do you have trouble thinking of the correct English phrases to say in everyday situations? Do you get confused on how to form sentences in English correctly? Learning English can be difficult and many people get nervous when learning to speak. This book was designed to give you helpful phrases about forty (40) common everyday topics such as: work, directions, food, agreeing, asking questions, and many more. This book is for beginning and intermediate students of the English language (ESL or EFL) In addition to helpful phrases most sections have links to videos and educational posts about that topic. You will be able to learn more phrases and information about the topics that most interest your (or that you need the most help with) in the additional resources section. Stop struggling to speak English. It shouldn't be hard. Download this book now and start learning and using phrases to help you better com...

Four-level speaking course that helps students to communicate with confidence Speak Now is the first conversation course with fully integrated video to help students develop communication skills. Click here to get the Links