Москва: Высшая школа,1963.-156 с.
This is not an ordinary textbook or manual of English—it is intended to be read for pleasure as well as profit. It does not hope to teach you a lot of new words, in fact you are expected to know most of the words in the vocabulary of these dialogues. Its main practical purpose is to show you how the words you already know are used in their native surroundings by English speakers of the language.
Each of the eighteen chapters of the book is a conversation between two or more people on a given theme. They have been kept more or less thematic because vocabulary extension, although not the major purpose of the book, has not been forgotten. The English is purely colloquial and very modern, and is the type of language that would normally be used by educated speakers.
The conversations are all original and have been specially written for this book; they have not been adapted from other books or culled from "classic" authors. Every effort has been made to keep them natural and to give the student really typical conversations.
For whom is the book intended?
For all those who have completed a general course of English and wish to make their spoken language easier and more flexible; for students of language institutes in their fourth and fifth years; for viva voce interpreters who would like their language to be more readily understood by visitors from abroad for whom they interpret; lastly, for teachers of English who feel in need of a refresher course and who would like to acquire greater facility of speech.
Contents:
A Letter from England
Getting Ready
A Sea Trip
At a London Hotel
Looking for Lodgings
A Trip to the Suburbs
Meeting the Family
Lunch with the Family
Shopping
A Quiet Afternoon
An Evening at the Theatre
The Sights of London
The Hike
The Great Picnic
A Visit to a Farm
Politics in a London Pub
London by Night
Farewell!
