Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills, Premium Third Edition

Book excerpt: A handy ESL phrase guide that helps you converse like a native English speaker—now enhanced via app with audio recordings of key expressions If you’re an intermediate level speaker of English, you know that idiomatic speech, slang and other English phrases can create a barrier to conversing confidently in casual and work-related situations. In Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills, Premium Third Edition you’ll find a phrase guide that allows you to say the right words at the right time in any setting with perfect confidence. Written in an accessible, easy-to-understand way by a highly experienced ESL instructor, Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills helps you navigate idiomatic speech and nuanced conversation with hundreds of ready-to-use English phrases and example dialogues. You’ll discover phrases for talking with friends, offering opinions, collaborating with co-workers, addressing misunderstandings, and more—including common slang expressions frequently used by native English speakers. Now enhanced with audio recordings of key expressions available online and via app, Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills give you the confidence you need to participate fully and confidently in any situation. Features: • Clear, straightforward style, geared specifically for non-native speakers • Ideal level for intermediate ESL (nonnative) speakers of English • Essential phrases to communication in any situation • Helpful direction on idiomatic speech and nuanced conversation • Useful phrase clusters that range from formal to casual speech • Audio recordings of key phrases example conversations via app