Practice Makes Perfect: English Conversation

✍ Scribed by Jean Yates

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gain the skills needed to converse in English with confidence!

Conversing comfortably in a new language can seem like a daunting task. This accessible guide will help you build the skills to communicate in English with confidence. The book is packed with crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of engaging exercises to help you hone your conversation skills. You’ll learn how to introduce yourself, make appointments, strike up conversations, and much more. 

Practice Makes Perfect: English Conversation is organized around 12 units that present specific conversational situations and common, everyday scenarios. Each unit offers helpful instructions on correct pronunciation, grammar, syntax, and word usage. The exclusive McGraw-Hill Language app features streaming audio recordings of all dialogues in the book plus the answers to more than 100 exercises.

Practice Makes Perfect: English Conversation will help you:

• Engage in dialogues that illustrate practical conversations
• Expand your English vocabulary
• Get clarification of new concepts with numerous realistic examples
• Reinforce your new conversational skills through extensive exercises
• Test your understanding of key themes in the book
• Improve your pronunciation through audio dialogs and exercises, online and via the McGraw-Hill Language app
 

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
1 Introducing yourself and others
2 Expressing opinions, likes, and dislikes
3 Describing people, places, and things
4 Striking up a conversation
5 Making dates and appointments
6 Expressing wants and needs
7 Making requests and offers
8 Expressing doubts and uncertainty
9 Talking about future events
10 Making a case or arguing a point
11 Narrating a story
12 Retelling a conversation
13 Talking about controversial issues
14 Electronic conversation
Appendix A: Irregular past tense and past participle forms
Appendix B: Short tag questions and answers
Appendix C: Glossary
Answer key