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Editor's note: AWL is well
known for its dictionaries and English language teaching materials. Some readers have written in to ask us for the latest information on high quality books on English speaking, so here we introduce two texts that aim to improve spoken English fluency(流利).
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Let's Speak (Beginner)
By Bev Dusuya, Nako Ozeki and Kevin Bergman
ISBN: 962001359X
Speak Up (PreIntermediate)
By Bev Kusuya, Nako Ozeki
ISBN: 058222505O
“Teach the students about your culture(文化) and help them talk about their own.”How often are these worthy goals kept from being achieved by the limitations of your beginnerlevel learners? Students at all levels want to talk about culture.
Topics include food, shopping, sports, fashion, the roles of men and women, health, music, and many more.
These are all thosen from surveys(调查) of over 15,000 students about their own interests in cross cultural communication.
“Let's Speak”and“Speak Up”share a special but excellent way that allows all students to take part.
The series has questions which start thinking and then help collect opinions about personal topics. Conversation practice is provided by readytouse models of basic exchanges on the topic. Also, the cultural information presented in the series comes in the form of interesting, relevant(相关的) facts and ideas from other countries through listening tasks and Culture Quiz exercises.
Team activities in books provide lively problemsolving games to enable sharing and comparison of cultural values.
“Let's Speak”is fit for entrylevel students of all ages.“Speak Up”provided for the needs of higher level beginners, offering the same careful listening and speaking help, but with slightly more openended discussion.
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1．In the sentence“Teach the students about your culture(文化) and help them talk about their own”, “your culture”here means the culture of ________.
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A．the English native speakers
B．the English learners
C．the readers of the two books
D．the readers of the newspaper
2．Which of the following are mentioned about the two books in the passage above?
a．publisher b．titles c．content
d．writers e．prices f．pages
g．book number
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3．The two books have in common everything except ________.
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A．the same interesting topics
B．the same level of learners
C．proper ways to excite the learners to talk
D．right kinds of activites for cultural communication
4．According to the passage, you can have at least ________ ways to be connected if you want to know something about AWL's books.
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5．The passage above is probably taken from the ________ section in a newspaper.
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