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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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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 ?

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5 of each for each sub-topic ? and devise some questions and gap-fill sentences ? Write your own 8 Sentence Block starting sentences using given verb forms, from

which you can then make the Sentence Stress and Connected Speech activities ? Think of a good idea for an Information Exchange ? of course, related to your topic ? Find or write a text for the Multi-Purpose Text activities, then make a glossary ? Get your students to think of their own ideas for Role Plays and What Would You

Do? situations, on the given course topic ? Get your students to write Discussion Questions or Agree or Disagree?

statements on the course topic, which they can then ask each other

...and so on! English material is designed to empower teachers, so I would really encourage you to have a go building your own Talk a Lot Intermediate course using the model provided here ? with a topic that is motivating for you and your students.

With this in mind, although there are Vocabulary Tests and Lesson Tests in Talk a Lot Intermediate, the teacher will need to prepare their own end of course assessments to suit the situation in which they are working. I haven't tried to write long assessments for these courses, because the needs of teachers using this book will be sure to vary enormously. However, if I were to assemble a test for students based on this material, I might include some (or all) of the following tasks:

? Make sentence blocks from given starting sentences ? Talk for 3-4 minutes on a given topic related to an aspect of the course topic ? Engage in discussion with another student or myself using discussion questions ? Match idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang words with their literal English counterparts

...the list could go on! See Talk a Lot Elementary Handbook (2009) for more guidance on planning and assessing Talk a Lot courses, as well as general advice and ideas for many of the activities included at intermediate level.

Finally, a quick promo for the new Talk a Lot Foundation Course (2011). It would really benefit students of Talk a Lot Intermediate if they were able to look at the theory of English pronunciation before they started an intermediate level course, because they would gain a lot of valuable background information about the principles of pronunciation that inform many of the activities in these four courses, e.g. the Connected Speech Template and Discussion Words activities.

Thanks, as ever, to all of my students who have gamely tried out the material in this book ? both in the classroom and online. Thank you for your feedback, which has been invaluable! If you have any feedback about Talk a Lot Intermediate, or indeed anything related to English , please feel free to contact me at: info@

Wishing you every success ? whether you are teaching or learning English!

All the best,

Matt Purland, Ostr?da, Poland (28th July 2011)

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Contents

Introduction Contents Instructions for Teachers

Discussion Words ? Sample Lesson Plan Idioms Practice Activities ? Sample Answers Slang Practice Activities ? Sample Answers Blank Certificate Templates The 48 Sounds of English with the IPA

Unit 1 Hotel

Unit 2 Problems

Unit 3 Media

Unit 4 Getting a Job

Supporting Material

More Features of Non-Literal English:

1

Abbreviation / Short Form; Banter; Double Entendre

2

Expressions; Funny Voices / Funny Accents; Innuendo

3

Joke / Gag; Parable

4

Running Joke; Satire

Notes on Intermediate Verb Forms:

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Intermediate Verb Forms ? Matching Game

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Present Perfect Continuous

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Past Perfect

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Past Perfect Continuous

10 Future Perfect

11 Future Perfect Continuous

12 Second Conditional

13 Third Conditional

14 Reported Speech

16 Passive Voice

18 Imperative Form

Idioms:

21 200 Top Idioms in Spoken English Today ? Main List 22 200 Top Idioms in Spoken English Today ? with Definitions and Examples 26 Love and Relationships ? English Idioms and Slang 32 How Did You Feel When...? (English Idioms of Mood/Emotion) 33 Football ? 20 Common English Idioms 34 Common English Idioms 1 35 Common English Idioms 2

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36 Common English Idioms 3 37 Common English Idioms 4 38 Common English Idioms 5 39 Common English Idioms 6 40 Common English Idioms ? Parts of the Body 1 41 Common English Idioms ? Parts of the Body 2 42 Really Motivational Page of Encouraging Thoughts

Phrasal Verbs:

44 20 Basic English Phrasal Verbs 45 200 Top Phrasal Verbs in Spoken English Today ? Main List 46 200 Top Phrasal Verbs in Spoken English Today ? Translation 48 Eat Up Your Phrasal Verbs! ? Introduction 50 Eat Up Your Phrasal Verbs! ? Question Sheet 51 Eat Up Your Phrasal Verbs! ? 50+ Great Activities for Practising Phrasal Verbs 54 Eat Up Your Phrasal Verbs! ? Activity Cards 60 Eat Up Your Phrasal Verbs! ? Sample Answers 69 Phrasal Verbs Dice Game ? Instructions 71 Phrasal Verbs Dice Game ? Most Common Verbs and Particles Dice 72 Phrasal Verbs Dice Game ? Combinations 73 Phrasal Verbs Dice Game ? Object Dice 74 Phrasal Verbs Dice Game ? Two Blank Dice 75 Politics ? Phrasal Verbs ? Sentence Bash! (Test Material)

Slang:

78 An A-Z of English Slang Terms ? Part 1 79 An A-Z of English Slang Terms ? Part 2 80 Australian Slang Phrases 1 81 Australian Slang Phrases 2 82 Derbyshire Accent Project ? Notes 84 Derbyshire Accent Project ? Slang Phrases 1 85 Derbyshire Accent Project ? Slang Phrases 2 86 Derbyshire Accent Project ? Slang Phrases 3

Special Topics and Bonus Material:

88 Comprehensive List of State Verbs in English 89 State Verbs in English ? Matching Game 1 90 State Verbs in English ? Matching Game 2 91 Why Use Politically Correct Language? 99 Christmas ? Discussion Words 100 How to Pronounce the Past -ed Form of Regular Verbs 101 200 Common Regular Verbs in English 102 200 Common Regular Verbs in English ? Ordered List 103 The Story of a Music Group (Lesson Plan) 107 Surviving without the Media ? an Experiment

118 Answers to Supporting Material

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