This series of practice books is designed for learners aspiring to achieve natural, fluent English. It focuses on practical skills and idiomatic expressions crucial for authentic communication. Each volume offers structured lessons and realistic scenarios for effective practice. It's ideal for those seeking to elevate their English proficiency to the next level.
Strategies for Speaking Natural English
Using recent corpus research into spoken English the Handbook of Spoken Grammar teaches learners to speak more naturally, using the patterns that native speakers use when speaking English.
Collocations are the key to fluent English. Learning words on their own may enable students to communicate, but to sound natural, students must learn what words typically go together. Using Collocations for Natural English helps students improve the way they use the words they already know. Comprising twenty-four units and six review sections, collocations are first presented in simple exercises. Students go on to understand and use the collocations with confidence in a variety of contexts. Using Collocations for Natural English puts an emphasis on learning to use collocations appropriately. Collocations are always presented in typical contexts, and information on formality or informality is included. Exercises include working on a range of text types from tweets to emails, postcards to letters and adverts to newspaper articles. Examples of conversational English are also included with texts recorded on Audio CD, which allow students to notice features of stress and intonation.
Natural Business English presents and practises not only essential business vocabulary and expressions, but also natural business language using idiomatic expressions and metaphorical language. This book is designed to help learners to understand this language, and to practise using it in appropriate ways to improve their fluency. It is suitable for people studying business English, doing courses with a business English component at university or equivalent level, as well as those already working who need English in their careers. After each block of four units, there is a two-page review section. In each of these, there are sixty questions relating to language presented in the previous units. Learners can consolidate learning, test themselves and use the answer key to check their progress. Natural Business English contains a glossary of words and expressions. The audios are available online free of charge. This input includes business people and business experts speaking, conversations, and research interviews, all of which help learners to improve their pronunciation as well as enrich their vocabulary.