Fluent English is a high intermediate-/advanced-level course in English as a second or foreign language. It is designed to meet the needs of the intermediate-level student in vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension, idiomatic usage, and pronunciation. It offers a great deal of practice in each of these areas, through both written exercises and recorded materials. The language used in this course is realistic and practical, and the situations in each of its twenty lessons offer a cultural context that will be recognizable and relevant to most intermediate-level students of English | Scan and OCR by maillo LIVING LANGUAGE FLUENT English Written by Barbara Raifsnider Edited by Christopher A. Warnasch Scan and OCR by maillo Contents Introduction LESSON 3 WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO? 21 3 A Say It Clearly!: Reductions 21 LESSON 1 3 B English At Work: Dialogue -Would You HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HERE? 1 Mind if I Looked at Your Resume? 21 1 A Say It Clearly!: Pronunciation of-ed Ending 3 C Build Your Vocabulary 22 1 3 D English Under the Hood: 1 B English At Work: Dialogue – Making 1. Questions and Negatives in the Simple SmallTalk 1 Past Tense 24 1 C Build Your Vocabulary 2 2. The Past Habitual: Used to, Didn't Use 1 D English Under the Hood: to, and Would Always 24 Present Perfect Tense vs. The 3. Making Polite Requests 26 Simple Past Tense 3 3 E Phrasal Verbs with work 27 with Irregular Forms in the Past and Present Perfect Tenses 4 3 F Real English: Put Your Nose to the Grindstone 28 and since with the Present Perfect and Simple Past Tenses 5 3 G Bring it All Together 28 1 E Phrasal Verbs with pick 6 3 H Listen Up! 30 1 F Real English: See You Later! 6 3 I Why Do They Do That? Shaking Hands 30 1 G Bring it All Together 7 1 H Listen Up! 9 1 I Why Do They Do That? Greetings and LESSON 4 SmallTalk 9 LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK 32 4 A Say It Clearly!: Y-Vowel Link 32 LESSON 2 DON'T GO AWAYI 11 4 B English At Work: Reading - Banks in the . 32 2 A Say It Clearly!:-s Endings 11 4 C Build Your Vocabulary 33 2 B English At Work: Recorded Message— The Hotel Royale 11 4 D English Under the Hood: 2 C Build Your Vocabulary 11 1. Simple Future vs. Immediate Future 34 2 D English Under the Hood: 2. The Present Continuous and Simple Present to Express the Future 35 1. -s Endings in the Third Person Singular 14 3. The Simple Present Tense with 2. The Negative Simple Present Tense 14 Prepositions of Time 35 4 E Phrasal Verbs with pay 36 3. Questions in the Present Tense 15 4 F Real English: In the Black 36 2 E Phrasal Verbs with turn
