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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

conversational material

Hi there. I am a British native English teacher working in Egypt. I really need to very good English conversational books to recommend course work for my students. Please can you advise?
  

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Forget textbooks. Use newspapers and magazines—current articles of interest. Every Sunday I buy the newspaper, cut out the photographs of news stories, paste them onto a sheet of paper, and have my students (of virtually all levels of fluency) talk about them.

— Mister Micawber

  • Forget textbooks.
  • Use newspapers and magazines—current articles of interest.
  • Every Sunday I buy the newspaper, cut out the photographs of news stories, paste them onto a sheet of paper, and have my students (of virtually all levels of fluency) talk about them.
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Forget textbooks. Use newspapers and magazines—current articles of interest. Every Sunday I buy the newspaper, cut out the photographs of news stories, paste them onto a sheet of paper, and have my students (of virtually all levels of fluency) talk about them.
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Many of us learnt English from textbooks. We cannot carry on everyday conversations naturally!
I read newspapers everyday - the language is different from what you need to learn to carry out everyday conversation like the English kids do!
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Yes tried them too but not enough you can say - you can understand news, documentaries even dramas but it's difficult to understand English teenagers and all those folks in the streets, and even those movies - what a waste of talent they are most of the time!
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The Express English section of BBC English is particularly good. Have you had a look at that? It is interviews with people on the street and includes people of all different ages and with different regional accents.
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I find them interesting though Emotion: smile
I couldn't remember the name of another website, here you are:
www.english-test.net/esl/less
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Thank you all for pointing to good sources. I'll be listening to both Express English and English-test.
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