Môn học tiếng Anh giao tiếp thương mại (TAGTTM) nhằm giúp sinh viên trau dồi và phát triển khả năng sử dụng tiếng Anh như là một công cụ giao tíếp trong môi truờng thương mại, kinh doanh quốc tế. | ESSENTIAL ENGLISH . for Foreign Students BOOK THREE revised edition by c. E. ECKERSLEY Illustrations by CHARLES SALISBURY BURGESS SHARROCKS PORTEOUS WOOD and from Punch and Woman s Journal F o R EIGN L A N GL AGES PRES So fi a 1967 PREFACE Essential English is a course in four books of which this is the third for the teaching of English to adult foreign students. It aims at giving the student a sound knowledge of the essentials of both spoken and written English and taking him well on the way to a mastery of idiomatic conversational and literary English. The normal constructions and sentence patterns of English are introduced gradually and systematically and are well drilled at every stage. The learner is guided through essential grammar in the simplest possible manher and every new construction is explained and illustrated as soon as it is used. The restricted vocabulary within which the four books are written has been based on A General Service List of English Words But neither this list nor any other list has been followed slavishly and blindly the vocabulary and the grammar and the structures taught have been tested constantly by the experience gained during some thirty years of teaching English to foreign students or writing text-books for them. Because I believe that a knowledge of the spoken tongue is the true basis of language learning much of this book is in conversational form and my constant endeavour has been to ensure that despite the restrictions that a limited vocabulary naturally imposes every sentence in these conversations is expressed in the living colloquial idiom that an educated Englishman would use. And since the most effective spur to learning a language or anything else is interest every effort has been made to cover the linguistic pill with the jam of gaiety. So as soon as the preliminaries are mastered the reader is introduced to Mr. Priestley his household and his group of students. We see them here and in all the other books chatting .
