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Talk a Lot

Spoken English Course by Matt Purland

A Great Way to Learn How to Really Speak English!

Intermediate Book 1

? Four full-length spoken English courses ? Over 200 hours of quality learning materials! ? Brand new and unique learning method ? Learn to use 8 essential intermediate level verb forms ? Learn real English ? idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang! ? Practise using sounds, stress, and connected speech ? 100% photocopiable

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Talk a Lot

Spoken English Course by Matt Purland

A Great Way to Learn How to Really Speak English!

Intermediate Book 1

? Four full-length spoken English courses ? Over 200 hours of quality learning materials! ? Brand new and unique learning method ? Learn to use 8 essential intermediate level verb forms ? Learn real English ? idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang! ? Practise using sounds, stress, and connected speech ? 100% photocopiable ? Includes Free Copying Licence and Free Licence to Run Courses

This book is dedicated to Anna and Julia with much love and thanks xx

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First published in the UK by English 2011

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Talk a Lot

Intermediate Book 1

Introduction

Hello!

...and a very warm welcome to the first Talk a Lot course book for intermediate level! Following the great response to the first three elementary level books (750,000+ downloads and counting!) this book has been specially designed to help English students to tackle the next stage of learning. In this book you will find four complete spoken English courses on the following topics:

1. Hotel

2. Problems

3. Media

4. Getting a Job

As well as the teaching material for each course ? around 45 hours in total ? this book contains more than 100 pages of additional material which complements the course activities, for use in the classroom or for self-study at home.

This book is for students who are studying from intermediate level (B2/FCE) to advanced level (C1/CAE), although there will also be plenty of good material for students at preintermediate level. The main proposal of this book is that intermediate level can come as something of a shock for students who realise that, despite dutifully learning all the basic grammatical forms and vocabulary at elementary level, the English language remains just as unknowable as ever, thanks to the introduction ? at intermediate level ? of non-literal English ? i.e. idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang. Despite knowing plenty of words with their literal meanings, the goal of fluent communication retreats further into the distance, as the student begins to find coded language wherever they look ? English that doesn't make sense as they know it. For example, they may have learned the vocabulary words "cost", "arm", and "leg", but do they know what it means "to cost an arm and a leg"? (To be very expensive!)

Talk a Lot Intermediate provides plenty of practice with these bewildering forms.

The aim of these courses is the same as for any Talk a Lot course ? to enable students to improve their English speaking skills. There is much that will be familiar from Elementary

Book 3, because each course is based on the unit structure of that book. However, in Talk a

Lot Intermediate, everything is harder! For example, there are still sentence blocks, but the verb forms have got tougher ? e.g. present perfect continuous instead of present simple, and so on. The vocabulary used is more complex too throughout the book, and there are many new activities offering students rewarding practice at this level ? for example the MultiPurpose Text: Guess the Function Words activity, or any of the many new activities for practising non-literal English.

Of course, it's totally up to you how you build your course from the material in this book. Talk a Lot worksheets are used in so many different situations around the world, that it would be pointless to try to tell you how to structure your course ? you can simply pick and choose what you need to use ? that goes without saying!

If you are feeling particularly motivated and creative, you could design your own Talk a Lot Intermediate course on a similar model to these four courses. To do this you would need to:

? Choose a topic for your course (e.g. Hotel) ? Choose 4 related sub-topics (e.g. Facilities, Guests, Staff, and Food and Drink) ? Choose 40 Discussion Words and Phrases ? and think up some questions ? Choose 20 common idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang words and phrases ?

Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 1 English

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