tailieunhanh - Fluent English

Studying grammar will only slow you down and confuse you. You will think about the rules when creating sentences instead of naturally saying a sentence like a native. Remember that only a small fraction of English speakers know more than 20% of all the grammar rules. Many ESL students know more grammar than native speakers. I can confidently say this with experience. I am a native English speaker, majored in English Literature, and have been teaching English for more than 10 years. However, many of my students know more details about English grammar than I do. I can easily. | LIVING LANGUAGE Perfect Natural speech Sharpen Your Grammar Master Idiomatic Expressions Speak Fluently Engfisn FOR SPEAKERS OF ANY LANGUAGE 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 1 HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HERE 1 1 A Say It Clearly Pronunciation of-ed Ending 1 1 B English At Work Dialogue - Making SmallTalk 1 1 C Build Your Vocabulary 2 1 D English Under the Hood 1. The Present Perfect Tense vs. The Simple Past Tense 3 2. Verbs with Irregular Forms in the Past and Present Perfect Tenses 4 3. Using or and since with the Present Perfect and Simple Past Tenses 5 1 E Phrasal Verbs with pick 6 1 F Real English See You Later 6 1 G Bring it All Together 7 1 H Listen Up 9 1 I Why Do They Do That Greetings and SmallTalk 9 LESSON 2 DON T GO AWAYI 11 2 A Say It Clearly -s Endings 11 2 B English At Work Recorded Message The Hotel Royale 11 2 C Build Your Vocabulary 11 2 D English Under the Hood 1. -s Endings in the Third Person Singular 14 2. The Negative Simple Present Tense 14 3. Questions in the Present Tense 15 2 E Phrasal Verbs with turn 16 2 F Real English Hold On 17 2 G Bring it All Together 17 2 H Listen Up 19 2 I Why Do They Do That Americans on the Move 19 LESSON 3 WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO 21 3 A Say It Clearly Reductions 21 3 B English At Work Dialogue -Would You Mind if I Looked at Your Resume 21 3 C Build Your Vocabulary 22 3 D English Under the Hood 1. Questions and Negatives in the Simple Past Tense 24 2. The Past Habitual Used to Didn t Use to and Would Always 24 3. Making Polite Requests 26 3 E Phrasal Verbs with work 27 3 F Real English Put Your Nose to the Grindstone 28 3 G Bring it All Together 28 3 H Listen Up 30 3 I Why Do They Do That Shaking Hands 30 LESSON 4 LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK 32 4 A Say It Clearly Y-Vowel Link 32 4 B English At Work Reading - Banks in the . 32 4 C Build Your Vocabulary 33 4 D English Under