English Conversation

10 Practice Makes Perfect English Conversation 1 · 5 EXERCISE Match the words or expressions in the first column with words or e ...

Introducing yourself and others 11 I work all the time. a. Yes, you’re a party animal. c. Yes, you have just arrived. b. Yes, y ...

12 Practice Makes Perfect English Conversation 1 · 9 EXERCISE Imagine you are introducing two of your friends to each other. Wri ...

13 Expressing opinions, likes, and dislikes Conversation: Getting acquainted Lauren: Hi—you must be Sarah. I can tell from your ...

14 Practice Makes Perfect English Conversation Improving your conversation Like Like has a number of different meanings and uses ...

Expressing opinions, likes, and dislikes 15 Up for To be up for something means to want to do it. Are you up for going to the mo ...

16 Practice Makes Perfect English Conversation Tell me is a way of asking someone to relate information. Call me and tell me abo ...

Expressing opinions, likes, and dislikes 17 Speaking of which is an expression that indicates that something mentioned reminds o ...

18 Practice Makes Perfect English Conversation Yeah Yeah is an informal way of saying yes. It is pronounced with two syllables: ...

Expressing opinions, likes, and dislikes 19 2 · 1 EXERCISE Write a question using like for each of the following answers. 1. I’d ...

20 Practice Makes Perfect English Conversation Can you we’ve been fighting? what you think. Please don’t that about us. Please ...

Expressing opinions, likes, and dislikes 21 2 · 4 EXERCISE Match the words or expressions in the first column with words or expr ...

22 Practice Makes Perfect English Conversation We are interested in buying the house we saw this afternoon. , it’s much nicer t ...

Expressing opinions, likes, and dislikes 23 2 · 7 EXERCISE Write an appropriate remark or question for each of the following res ...

24 Practice Makes Perfect English Conversation 2 · 9 EXERCISE Answer the following questions. Ask an English-speaking friend to ...

25 Describing people, places, and things Conversation: Talking about roommates Eric: So, Michael, what’s your new roommate like? ...

26 Practice Makes Perfect English Conversation Improving your conversation So So has many different uses. In the example convers ...

Describing people, places, and things 27 The same contraction can be used to emphasize that an activity is habitual. Sometimes w ...

28 Practice Makes Perfect English Conversation At least At least indicates that a situation could be worse. Ooh, it’s so cold ou ...

Describing people, places, and things 29 Wonder I wonder expresses an unanswered question or doubt. The subject-verb order is di ...