This episode is for Upper Intermediate or Advanced students, a kind of checking you know where you are in terms of uses for the passive! Read the transcript http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/usefullanguage_passives01.mp3
Sentences sent in by Belén (Intermediate 1, 2007-08) & completed by YTRead the sentences http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/usefulclassroomlanguageprimary01.mp3
This audio includes “sorry” sentences you can use in conversations and in notes and letters/emails. It also includes some language comments, like the comment about the three different “that” words you can find! Read the sentences in this episode. More: Apologies Accepted at TP and some sorry letters at the TP Writing section. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/usefullang_apologies01.mp3
With this audio we’re pushing our section of Useful Language a bit further, to include… letter-writing! Why record audios of that? Well, you can learn to read the language we may use in letters. In this way, you’ll remember it better. You’ll probably consolidate your speaking skills and you are likely to improve in terms … Continue reading Useful Language. Letter-Writing. Requesting information 01
Read the thank you sentenceson this Talking People linkRead the thank you notes on this Talking People linkThis episode contains mostly drilling (the same structure with changes in some words), so at times I won’t be repeating each sentence twice, just once. It has two sections: first, a one-page list of useful sentences to thank people … Continue reading Useful Language. Saying thank you 01
Read the sentencesIt includes drilling with indirect questions, too. More on indirect questions here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/usefullang_requests01.mp3
This episode contains sentences you can use while speaking or in writing to give contact information.Read the sentences. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/usefullang_givingcontactinfo.mp3
Read those sentences at the TP Website. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/usefullang_suggestions01.mp3
This episode is devoted to communicative strategies, fluency and correction in conversations. Check out Part 1 and Part 2 (below). Here you’ll be able to read the transcript of the audio:Defending a Position,Disagreeing & Challenging an Opinion,Problem-solving, Reaching an Agreement, Moving On, Recap(itulating) http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/usefullanguage_conversations03.mp3
This episode is devoted to communicative strategies, fluency and correction in conversations. Check out Part 1 (below) and Part 3 (above).Read Part 2. Agreeing, Sitting on the Fence, Showing You Follow and Making Comments to “accompany” the person who is speaking, Inviting People to Speak http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/usefullanguage_conversations02.mp3
This episode is devoted to communicative strategies, fluency and correction in conversations. Sentences are taken from the TP section called “Useful Language – Conversations”. We will deal with all of this parting from the different language functions we need to perform while communicating, such as clarifying and the like. This episode is divided into 3 … Continue reading Useful Language. Communicative Strategies Part 1
Transcript of the sentences read /red/ aloud in this episode. You will also find an explanation you can also print. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/skills/phonetics/audios/edending_verbsincontext01.mp3
Listen and repeat the following sentences to improve your fluency and accuracy. Notice that the subject comes first in the indirect question. Post your questions on the thread of this episode at http://www.talkingpeople.net/tppodcast/ Transcript at Talking People http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/usefullang_indirectquestions01.mp3
Sorry for taking so long to post again.We’ll be posting new episodes and sometimes the old episodes again, to get them to this new site. We haven’t found a better way!Transcript of this episode http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/usefullang_money01.mp3