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Each lesson in English for Italian Speakers Phase 1, Units 1-5 provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Each lesson contains practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons.

効率よくリスニング力を伸ばしたい、ニュース英語に手を出してみたけれど難しすぎて挫折してしまった・・・そんな方には、この『究極の英語リスニングVol.1 1000語レベルで1万語』がオススメ!リスニングが苦手と感じる理由として以下のようなことがよく挙げられますが、本オーディオブックでは、これらの悩みをすべて解決できるよう工夫を盛り込みました! ■使われる語句が難しい→使われている語はSVL(Standard Vocabulary Listの略。アルクが編集した「標準語彙水準12000」のこと)の最初の1000語のみ。この1000語は、英語の基礎を成す必須単語で、どのような英文にも登場する基本単語ばかり。知っている単語ばかりだからこそ、聞き取りに集中できます。 ■早口すぎる→100WPM(1分間に100語)程度のゆっくりスピードから、180WPM以上のナチュラル・スピードまで、さまざまな速さの英文を収録しました。ゆっくりスピードから取り組めます。 ■内容に興味を持てない→日常会話や旅行会話、観光地の説明や物語など、さまざまな内容の英文を計50本聞きます。次はどんな話が飛び出すか、ドキドキしながら音声を聞くのも一興です。 このほかにも、効果音に凝ったりと、多くの工夫を盛り込みました。楽しみながら取り組めば、リスニング力がアップすること請け合いです!

Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life.This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains - and all of them happen here.

An idiom is a group of words with a special meaning of its own that is not clear from the meanings of the individual words. Idioms such as "think out of the box" and "a long shot" are used extensively in English in e-mail, newspapers, and conversations. When you don't understand idioms, you can feel left out of a conversation or miss the point of a story. This audiobook focuses on 100 frequently used idioms.

Adapted from the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.... Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening – and he knows what question the stranger will ask.

In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street – visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world who can help them.

The history of pottery in Japan stretches back a long way, and the Jomon pottery from the Jomon period, that began over 10,000 years ago, is said to be the oldest earthenware in Japan.

The Survival Phrases series is designed to provide world travelers with essential phrases in multiple languages and cultural insight you will not find in a textbook. In this 25-lesson series, you'll learn vital British English phrases in each lesson that will help prepare you for an upcoming trip.

Cuando Usted aprende inglés, las palabras similares en español, llamadas cognados, son más fáciles de aprender porque parecen y significan lo mismo que la palabra que ya conoce. Por ejemplo“gratitude” en inglés tiene el mismo significado que “gratitud” en español.

English for Spanish Speakers Phase 3, Units 21-25 build on material taught in prior units. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation.

The Official IELTS Prep Speaking Strategies audiobook has everything you need to prepare and excel on the speaking section of the IELTS! This powerful audio course was created by expert IELTS tutors and teachers who know the test and all its variations inside and out.

LA GUÍA DEFINITIVA DE TRUQUITOS PARA QUE EMPIECES A LIVING LA VIDA ENGLISH.

Focus your English learning on the most frequently used verbs. Learn just the 100 verbs you need for everyday life to talk about the past, the present, and the future. One of the usual mistakes when learning a foreign language is that the student has no priorities. All the unknown verbs get the same attention. Actually, to communicate, you only need 100 verbs in any language. These verbs are the most frequently used and can be defined using an algorithm that provides the ranking. In this book, you'll find the list.

What is a phrasal verb? A phrasal verb is when you take a verb and add a preposition, but the new combination doesn’t mean what either the original verb or preposition mean. So when someone says, “We will bring up that topic at the meeting,” it doesn’t mean someone is going to carry something upstairs! Instead, the phrasal verb “bring up” means to discuss something.

English for French Speakers Phase 1, Units 6-10 build on material taught in prior units. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation.

London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry 10-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread.But Oliver Twist finds some friends – Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of ’games’ they play. An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Charles Dickens original by Richard Rogers.

Without knowing idioms, it's impossible to fully integrate into the business world. Native English speakers use idioms and phrasal verbs in their daily vocabulary to express their opinions on important matters - and so will you after learning these 99 essential phrases. This book features only the most commonly used idioms within a workplace setting and includes FIVE real-world example sentences for each of them.

Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.

"A Scandal in Bohemia" was the first of Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories to be published in The Strand Magazine. Holmes did not think much of the "fair sex" until the met a character in this story, Irene Adler, who became to him "the woman".

The Survival Phrases series is designed to provide world travelers with essential phrases in multiple languages and cultural insight you will not find in a textbook. In this 25-lesson series, you'll learn vital British English phrases in each lesson that will help prepare you for an upcoming trip.

English for Spanish Speakers Phase 2, Units 6-10 build on material taught in prior units. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation.