Even high-level students often say that they find understanding spoken English one of the hardest skills to master. At pre-intermediate level students need confidence-building listening tasks which arc progressively more challenging in terms of speed, length, and language difficulty, but are always achievable. | Clive Oxenden Christina Latham-Koenig Paul Seligson 100 NEW New ENGLISH FILE Pre-intermediat Student s Book elt englishfile pre-intermediate OXFORD Contents Grammar Vocabulary Pronunciation 4 Q Who s who word order in questions common verb phrases classroom language vowel sounds the alphabet 6 D Who knows you better present simple family personality adjectives third person and plural -s 8 Q At the Moulin Rouge present continuous the body prepositions of place vowel sounds 10 El The Devil s Dictionary defining relative clauses aperson thing which. expressions for paraphrasing like for example etc. pronunciation in a dictionary 12 Practical English At the airport 13 Writing Describing yourself 14 Revise Check What do you remember What can you do 16 Right place wrong time past simple regular and irregular verbs holidays ed endings irregular verbs 18 A moment in time past continuous prepositions of time and place at in on lol 20 Fifty years of pop questions with and without auxiliaries question words pop music w and h 22 One October evening so because but although verb phrases the letters 24 Practical English At the conference hotel 25 Writing The story behind a photo 26 Revise Check What do you remember What can you do 28 Where are you going going to present continuous future arrangements look after for etc. sentence stress 30 The pessimists phrase book opposite verbs contractions will won t o and oq 32 Q I ll always love you will won t promises offers decisions verb back word stress two-syllable words 34 1 was only dreaming review of tenses present past and future verbs prepositions sentence stress 36 Practical English Restaurant problems 37 Writing An informal letter 38 Revise Check What do you remember What can you do 40 From rags to riches present perfect experience ever never present perfect or past simple clothes vowel sounds 42 Family conflicts present perfect simple yet just already verb phrases Ihl fy and Idÿ 44 B Faster faster comparatives
