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Colloquial English là chương trình tiếng Anh giao tiếp thông dụng, đơn giản giúp người học tiếp thu nhanh thông qua các Dialogue (đoạn hội thoại ngắn) và sau đó phân tích các điểm ngữ pháp (Language point) có trong bài học
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 Egypt 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 *Hebrew *Hindi *Hungarian *Icelandic *Indonesian Italian *Japanese *Korean *Latvian *Lithuanian *Malay *Mongolian *Norwegian Panjabi *Persian *Polish *Portuguese *Portuguese of Brazil *Romanian *Russian *Scottish Gaelic *Slovak *Slovene Somali *Spanish *Spanish of Latin America *Swahili *Swedish *Tamil *Thai *Turkish *Ukrainian Urdu *Vietnamese *Welsh Accompanying cassette(s) (*and CDs) are available for all the above titles. They can be ordered through your bookseller, or send payment with order to Taylor & Francis/Routledge Ltd, ITPS, Cheriton House, North Way, Andover, Hants SP10 5BE, or to Routledge Inc, 270 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10016, USA. COLLOQUIAL CD-ROMs Multimedia Language Courses Available in: Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish Colloquial English A Complete English Language Course Gareth King 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1211 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211 First edition published 2005 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 2005 Gareth King All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data King, Gareth. Colloquial English: a complete English language course / Gareth King. p. cm. Includes index. 1. English language – Textbooks for foreign speakers. 2. English language – Spoken English – Problems, exercises, etc. I. Title. II. Series. PE1128.K43 2004 428.2′4 – dc22 2004010470 ISBN 0–415–29953–5 (pbk) 0–415–29952–7 (CD) 0–415–29950–0 (Cassette) 0–415–29951–9 (Pack) This edition published in the Taylor and Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” ISBN 0-203-53691-6 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-67024-8 (Adobe eReader Format) I dedicate this book to the memory of my dear friend Buzz Burrell 1956–2003 who loved the English language always 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1211 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211 Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction x English spelling xi IPA symbols xii Grammatical terms used in this book xiii 1 Pleased to meet you! 1 2 Where are you from? 20 3 Could you tell me where the bank is? 33 4 Have you got any bread? 47 5 What shall we do today? 64 6 Hello, could I speak to Vicki? 81 7 What date is it today? 98 8 Can I make an appointment? 117 9 I’ve lost my passport! 135 10 Which do you prefer? 155 11 I’ll see you at half past five! 175 12 You can’t be serious! 194 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1211 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211 13 The people we met were fantastic! 209 14 What would you do? 226 15 I said you’d phone back later 241 Key to exercises 259 Reference grammar 276 Irregular verbs – alphabetical list 280 Irregular verbs by type 283 Grammar index 286 viii Acknowledgements I thank Sophie Oliver and Suzanne Cousin at Routledge Language Reference Editorial for their unstinting support and encouragement throughout this project; the various reviewers of the original proposal for their positive response and helpful feedback; Linda Paulus, Production Editor, for her hard work and accuracy; the Guardian and Daily Mirror newspapers for permission to use material; my friends and colleagues in the bunker for populating a significant proportion of the book; my fellow CaRPistas in cix:carp for real and useful pedantry of a consistently high order; and of course Adam, Liam and Jonquil for being the best family in the world. 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1211 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211