... Terry hasn’t got any money at all Susan’s got a Ferrari Have you got a ten-pound note? Notice that got doesn’t change, but that have changes to has for the third person singular, and that we use ... water. My friend had one, but I had another coffee. W AITER : Ah . . . sorry about that. You were right, and I was wrong. 56 Language point 26 – ‘two coffees’ We saw in Language point 23 t...
... 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 ... 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...
... 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 ... shy away from grammar, and a glance at the index will show how central a component of the course it is. In explaining the grammar in the body of the book, while aiming to keep techn...
... OK Adrian? A DRIAN : OK. G ERRY : Do you 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 ... Dialogue 9, Ben asks Justine Where’s Helen?. 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 indi...
... going to sail to New Zealand in my yacht – Really? Norman’s bought another horse – Really? Chocolate is an aphrodysiac – Really? More than a billion people speak Chinese – Really? Stuart adds Like ... Rosemary. A NN : Rosemary, this is Marian – she’s from Brighton. R OSEMARY : Hello, Marian – what do you do for a job? M ARIAN : I’m a teacher. R OSEMARY : So am I! Where do you teach? M...
... ______ 8 How? is used to identify ______ 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 ... words in English have two pronun- ciations: a FULL PRONUNCIATION when they are given special emphasis, and a more common WEAK PRONUNCIATION otherwise. Here are some t...
... bus.’ 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. ... 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 me...
... milk Has Sandra got any children? Has Sandra got any food in the house? We don’t want any biscuits We don’t want any cake Exercise 1 Candace has made shopping list. Look at the items on it and ... have already seen do as an AUXILIARY in the present simple (Language point 12): Do you speak Italian? (present simple question) I don’t speak Italian (present simple negative) but I speak Italian ....
... we can end up at the Indian for a late dinner? M IKE : Great idea. They can try out Indian food, and we can get a taxi back home. S ANDRA : I’ll go and ask them what they think. Dialogue 4 Andy ... Sarah and John are having a similar discussion, but they’re hungry! S ARAH : Shall we eat in or go out for a meal? J OHN : I don’t know – I can’t decide. S ARAH : Why don’t we go to the Tra...
... speaker, and that for something
that is further away. So, if Anne is holding a red hat and Susan is
holding a blue hat, Anne says this hat for the red one and that hat
for the blue one. For Susan ... restaurant and eating there
takeaway – a meal bought at a restaurant and taken home to eat; also
means the shop
option – choice
chips – potatoes cut up and cooked in oil
order ahead – use...