英语口语教程·2·英语中级口语

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本书从指导思想的酝酿，资料的收集到练习的编写长达六年之久。
中国学生常常感到掌握英语口语困难。数量有限的口语问答以及对短文、对话的记忆背诵难以提高学生在日常生活中用英语进行口头实际的能力。学生对口语有惧怕感，突破不了口语关。为了寻找一种学生乐于用英语口头实际的办法，我们进行了试验与探索，研究了国内外的口语教材以及中国学生学习英语口语的特定环境。我们从中外60多种书刊中选取素材，完成了这套《英语口语教程》。它具有以下特点：
1）课文主题与年轻人生活、思想紧密相关，题材广泛，多是年轻人感兴趣且乐于交谈的题目。学习此书有助于年轻人产生用英语进行口头实际的强烈欲望。
2）训练由易到难，循序渐进；练习精心设计，形式生动活泼，《英语初级口语》和《英语中级口语》每课都配有图画及练习，练习方法多是我们在教学中多年来反复使用、卓有成效的。
3）培养学生全面的口语能力，包括叙述、对话、交谈、讨论、辩论等多种能力。
4）教材适用性强，既适合在校的不同年轻的学生，也适用于水平不一的英语自学者。
5）每套教材都配有英语录音，录音者皆是英语国家的学者和专家，配音清晰、流畅、优美、语音、语调标准纯正。
《英语口语教程》分初级、中级、高级三册。训练重点不同，内容各异。《英语初级口语》共有40课。内容包括饮食起居、节假日、晚会、舞会、作客、通信、电视、电影、购物、求医、求学、旅游等。课文多是与日常生活相关的小故事与对话。《英语中级口语》共有35课，内容包括爱情友谊、生儿育女、公共道德、人际关系、个性特点、生活习惯、趣味爱好、生活经历、体育运动、勤工俭学、学习方法、健康减肥、犯罪案例等。《英语高级口语》共有28课，内容包括对各种问题的辩论，诸如青年人的思想情绪，广告的优劣，寻找对象的方式，妇女的地位，住户改造，对“大锅饭”的态度，对老板的态度，工作意义，独生子女的教育，城乡差别，教育改革，时装美容，对钱的态度，批评与表扬，两代人的差别，对时间的看法等等。

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I guess the main reason I was mad at Daddy was because it all made my mother so unhappy, and I ended up feeling sorry for both of them--my mother because she was struggling to make ends meet , and my Dad because he couldn't really do much about it.
Even though my parents separated more than three years ago, it's still very vivid in my mind and I doubt if I'll ever forget the way I felt at the time. Yet, as awful as it was, I never hoped they'd get back together. And now I think I'd die if they did, because it would be so awkward for me. I think they're both much happier now, and it's obvious to me that they both lead totally different lives. Since the breakup I've been able to see my parents' true colors, especially my mother's. I've seen a side of her that I never saw before. When she was married, she and Daddy were the perfect couple, always quiet, talking about dignified things, and they would never laugh or anything. Nowadays my mother is always happy and gay. Another way she's changed is that she always used to hide her problems from me but now she's more apt to discuss things. I think she's more relaxed--and so's my Dad.
Both of my parents started dating other people right away, and I think they'll both get remarried eventually, which is fine with me. They don't discuss their love lives with me all that much, but of course I'm not blind. For example, one night I had a sleep-over at a friend's house and the next morning I came home earlier than I'd planned to. Well, I just stormed into my mother's bedroom, and there was this guy in her bed--she was somewhere else, in another room. I started crying and everything, and my mother tried to convince me she had slept on the couch. Now that I look back, it was pretty hilarious, and of course I don't care--I mean, I understand about those kind of arrangements. In the beginning, when my father had a girlfriend sleep over,