englishbanana.com’s .pdf file users: Click this icon (left) to access the contents! Talk a Lot Spoken English Course by Matt Purland A Great Way to Learn How to Really Speak English! Intermediate Book 1 • Four full-length spoken English courses • Over 200 hours of quality learning materials! • Brand new and unique learning method • Learn to use 8 essential intermediate level verb forms • Learn real English – idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang! • Practise using sounds, stress, and connected speech • 100% photocopiable englishbanana.com’s Talk a Lot Spoken English Course by Matt Purland A Great Way to Learn How to Really Speak English! Intermediate Book 1 • Four full-length spoken English courses • Over 200 hours of quality learning materials! • Brand new and unique learning method • Learn to use 8 essential intermediate level verb forms • Learn real English – idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang! • Practise using sounds, stress, and connected speech • 100% photocopiable • Includes Free Copying Licence and Free Licence to Run Courses This book is dedicated to Anna and Julia with much love and thanks xx and also: ………………………………………………………………. (Insert the name of the teacher who has most inspired you to learn) English Banana.com [email protected] First published in the UK by English Banana.com 2011 Public Domain The author and sole copyright holder of this document has donated it to the public domain. Anybody can use this document, for commercial and non-commercial purposes. Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 1 Introduction Hello! …and a very warm welcome to the first Talk a Lot course book for intermediate level! Following the great response to the first three elementary level books (750,000+ downloads and counting!) this book has been specially designed to help English students to tackle the next stage of learning. In this book you will find four complete spoken English courses on the following topics: 1. Hotel 2. Problems 3. Media 4. Getting a Job As well as the teaching material for each course – around 45 hours in total – this book contains more than 100 pages of additional material which complements the course activities, for use in the classroom or for self-study at home. This book is for students who are studying from intermediate level (B2/FCE) to advanced level (C1/CAE), although there will also be plenty of good material for students at pre- intermediate level. The main proposal of this book is that intermediate level can come as something of a shock for students who realise that, despite dutifully learning all the basic grammatical forms and vocabulary at elementary level, the English language remains just as unknowable as ever, thanks to the introduction – at intermediate level – of non-literal English – i.e. idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang. Despite knowing plenty of words with their literal meanings, the goal of fluent communication retreats further into the distance, as the student begins to find coded language wherever they look – English that doesn’t make sense as they know it. For example, they may have learned the vocabulary words “cost”, “arm”, and “leg”, but do they know what it means “to cost an arm and a leg”? (To be very expensive!) Talk a Lot Intermediate provides plenty of practice with these bewildering forms. The aim of these courses is the same as for any Talk a Lot course – to enable students to improve their English speaking skills. There is much that will be familiar from Elementary Book 3, because each course is based on the unit structure of that book. However, in Talk a Lot Intermediate, everything is harder! For example, there are still sentence blocks, but the verb forms have got tougher – e.g. present perfect continuous instead of present simple, and so on. The vocabulary used is more complex too throughout the book, and there are many new activities offering students rewarding practice at this level – for example the Multi- Purpose Text: Guess the Function Words activity, or any of the many new activities for practising non-literal English. Of course, it’s totally up to you how you build your course from the material in this book. Talk a Lot worksheets are used in so many different situations around the world, that it would be pointless to try to tell you how to structure your course – you can simply pick and choose what you need to use – that goes without saying! If you are feeling particularly motivated and creative, you could design your own Talk a Lot Intermediate course on a similar model to these four courses. To do this you would need to: • Choose a topic for your course (e.g. Hotel) • Choose 4 related sub-topics (e.g. Facilities, Guests, Staff, and Food and Drink) • Choose 40 Discussion Words and Phrases – and think up some questions • Choose 20 common idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang words and phrases – Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 1 English Banana.com Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 1 Introduction 5 of each for each sub-topic – and devise some questions and gap-fill sentences • Write your own 8 Sentence Block starting sentences using given verb forms, from which you can then make the Sentence Stress and Connected Speech activities • Think of a good idea for an Information Exchange – of course, related to your topic • Find or write a text for the Multi-Purpose Text activities, then make a glossary • Get your students to think of their own ideas for Role Plays and What Would You Do? situations, on the given course topic • Get your students to write Discussion Questions or Agree or Disagree? statements on the course topic, which they can then ask each other …and so on! English Banana.com material is designed to empower teachers, so I would really encourage you to have a go building your own Talk a Lot Intermediate course using the model provided here – with a topic that is motivating for you and your students. With this in mind, although there are Vocabulary Tests and Lesson Tests in Talk a Lot Intermediate, the teacher will need to prepare their own end of course assessments to suit the situation in which they are working. I haven’t tried to write long assessments for these courses, because the needs of teachers using this book will be sure to vary enormously. However, if I were to assemble a test for students based on this material, I might include some (or all) of the following tasks: • Make sentence blocks from given starting sentences • Talk for 3-4 minutes on a given topic related to an aspect of the course topic • Engage in discussion with another student or myself using discussion questions • Match idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang words with their literal English counterparts …the list could go on! See Talk a Lot Elementary Handbook (2009) for more guidance on planning and assessing Talk a Lot courses, as well as general advice and ideas for many of the activities included at intermediate level. Finally, a quick promo for the new Talk a Lot Foundation Course (2011). It would really benefit students of Talk a Lot Intermediate if they were able to look at the theory of English pronunciation before they started an intermediate level course, because they would gain a lot of valuable background information about the principles of pronunciation that inform many of the activities in these four courses, e.g. the Connected Speech Template and Discussion Words activities. Thanks, as ever, to all of my students who have gamely tried out the material in this book – both in the classroom and online. Thank you for your feedback, which has been invaluable! If you have any feedback about Talk a Lot Intermediate, or indeed anything related to English Banana.com, please feel free to contact me at: [email protected] Wishing you every success – whether you are teaching or learning English! All the best, Matt Purland, Ostróda, Poland (28th July 2011) Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 1 English Banana.com Talk a Lot Contents Introduction Contents Instructions for Teachers Discussion Words – Sample Lesson Plan Idioms Practice Activities – Sample Answers Slang Practice Activities – Sample Answers Blank Certificate Templates The 48 Sounds of English with the IPA Unit 1 Hotel Unit 2 Problems Unit 3 Media Unit 4 Getting a Job Supporting Material More Features of Non-Literal English: 1 Abbreviation / Short Form; Banter; Double Entendre 2 Expressions; Funny Voices / Funny Accents; Innuendo 3 Joke / Gag; Parable 4 Running Joke; Satire Notes on Intermediate Verb Forms: 6 Intermediate Verb Forms – Matching Game 7 Present Perfect Continuous 8 Past Perfect 9 Past Perfect Continuous 10 Future Perfect 11 Future Perfect Continuous 12 Second Conditional 13 Third Conditional 14 Reported Speech 16 Passive Voice 18 Imperative Form Idioms: 21 200 Top Idioms in Spoken English Today – Main List 22 200 Top Idioms in Spoken English Today – with Definitions and Examples 26 Love and Relationships – English Idioms and Slang 32 How Did You Feel When…? (English Idioms of Mood/Emotion) 33 Football – 20 Common English Idioms 34 Common English Idioms 1 35 Common English Idioms 2 Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 1 English Banana.com Talk a Lot Contents 36 Common English Idioms 3 37 Common English Idioms 4 38 Common English Idioms 5 39 Common English Idioms 6 40 Common English Idioms – Parts of the Body 1 41 Common English Idioms – Parts of the Body 2 42 Really Motivational Page of Encouraging Thoughts Phrasal Verbs: 44 20 Basic English Phrasal Verbs 45 200 Top Phrasal Verbs in Spoken English Today – Main List 46 200 Top Phrasal Verbs in Spoken English Today – Translation 48 Eat Up Your Phrasal Verbs! – Introduction 50 Eat Up Your Phrasal