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Colloquial English

A Course for Non-Native Speakers

By Gareth King

Published November 4th 2004 by Routledge

Series: Colloquial Series

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Description

Colloquial English is an easy-to-use course, specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use. It teaches current spoken and written English, as used in the UK, through the medium of English itself. This course assumes a basic knowledge of English and is suitable for post-beginners, whether studying on their own or as part of a class.

Features include:

  • full explanations and illustrations of grammatical terms
  • pronunciation guide to help with areas of particular difficulty
  • a variety of exercises to help learners to grow in confidence
  • full answer key.

Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on CD/MP3 format, or comes included in the great value Colloquials Pack.

Author Bio

Gareth King, who is currently working in Further Education, has a background in Linguistics and is an experienced teacher odf foreign languages and English as a Foreign Language. He is author of Routledge's Colloquial Welsh, Basic Welshand Intermediate Welsh Grammar Workbook titles and is the Series Advisor for the Colloquials. He has previously authored material for OUP's Oxford Junior English titles (pub 1999), aimed at EFL learners in secondary schools.

Listen to Sample Audio For The Course:

These are samples from the audio CD, designed to accompany the paperback, or included in our great value Colloquial Pack.