Foundations of English for foreign students - Students' Book 3. [antikvár]

FOREWORD TO THE STUDENT note: This course is not suitable for students working alone; it is intended for use with a teacher, and each of the three Students' Books has a corresponding Teacher's Book in which full instructions can be found on the use of the course and on the conduct of the individual lessons. If you have worked carefully through Books I and II of Foundations of English you have learnt most of the main constructions of the language. You have alsó learnt about two thousand words and a great many idiomatic expressions. In Book III the object is to give you opportunities of putting your knowledge to use and of increasing it in the following ways: (a)By eompleting the aeeount of constructions which are used in modern, everyday, educated English and giving you opportunities of practising them. (b)By widening the rangé of your vocabulary, both of words and of idioms. (c)By showing how similar ideas can often be expressed in various ways. (d)By including a few examples of good modern writing which you may use as models for your own style; and a few examples of poetry, to give you an idea of the rhythm of the language. In all this we are concentrating attention on the plain conversational style, avoiding an over-literary use of the language on the one hand and an over-colloquial use on the other. It is, after all, the straightforward English of ordinary educated people that you need to learn and will find most useful.