Using English Expressions for Real Life: Stepping Stones to Fluency for Advanced ESL Learners
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Now with Audio. English is full of expressions that convey slang meanings, sarcastic meanings, informal meanings, and many other meanings that are not immediately apparent by defining the single words in an expression. This book was written for the advanced ESL learner who wants to explore the next level of English proficiency: understanding how English native speakers communicate daily needs, feelings and desires using expressions.
This book is for all advanced English learners who want to improve their fluency in English: ESL and ESOL students, TOEIC and TOEFL students, Cambridge students, GED students and anyone wanting to improve their English proficiency by expanding their knowledge of how English speakers compile idioms and expressions in real-life conversation.
Thomas Celentano
Thomas Celentano has published seven books and multiple articles about English grammar for English students worldwide. His 810-page "The Big Book of English Grammar" is a culmination of his work. He is also the novelist behind R. Cameron Bryce's "When Pigs and Horses Fly" ("Under the Giant Mimosa") and "Killing Tony, Excerpts from My Diary." He has taught English as a second language for more than 20 years and has held directorships in various ESL schools over his career. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Hawaii, at Manoa, he holds degrees in foreign language studies and anthropology. An avid surfer, sailor and adventurer, he has spent years crisscrossing the South Pacific Ocean on his 8.3 meter sailboat, Carrie Ann, capturing, on film and in audio recordings, the sights and sounds of island communities there.
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Using English Expressions for Real Life - Thomas Celentano
Chapter 1 - TRAVEL
CORRECT USAGE OF SOME common English expressions and idioms in travel situations
In this first chapter Louise Gibessi’s column deals with traveling.
Directions: Read and / or listen to Louise’s column and try to understand the general meaning. Don’t stress out* about every little thing.** After you have read (or listened to) the story, you will have a chance to read (or hear) the meanings of the idioms used in the story with some brief examples. After you’ve learned what everything means, there will be a practice and review session at the end of the chapter. By this time you will be up to snuff*** on the meanings of all of the idioms and other expressions in the story.
(* stress out= don’t worry)
(** every little thing= about every detail)
(*** up to snuff= you will know about or be up to date on)
Some common English expressions and idioms when talking about