Exploring Spoken English

Exploring Spoken English is a practical guide to the features of natural spoken English, designed for teachers and advanced learners of English for use in groups and for self-study. The material consists of 20 varied extracts of authentic spoken English drawn from the Cambridge University Press and University of Nottingham corpus of spoken English. All the extracts are on an accompanying cassette. Each unit contains an activity for the reader and a line-by-line commentary offering new insights into grammar, vocabulary and discourse patterns in the text. The accompanying cassette contains all the extracts, some re-recorded for the purposes of clarity.

Introduction

7

(12)

Glossary of important terms

12

(8)

Notes on transcription

20

(3)

Section A Narrative

This section consists of anecdotes told with active listener participation.

Dangerous childhood pranks

23

(8)

Flying over Budapest

31

(6)

Ken's mother

37

(5)

Section B Identifying

This section consists of extracts in which people talk about themselves, and their present and past lives.

Two old friends meet up again

42

(5)

An elderly lady reminisces

47

(8)

Section C Language-in-action

This section has extracts recorded while people were doing things, (e.g. cooking, moving things, packing, etc.).

Doing a job

55

(9)

Cooking rice

64

(7)

Section D Comment-elaboration

Extracts of people giving casual opinions and commenting on things, other people, events, etc. around them and in their daily lives.

Family and relatives

71

(7)

Two teachers chatting

78

(6)

Students chatting round the tea-table

84

(7)

Section E Service encounters

Extracts in a variety of goods-and-services settings.

At the post office

91

(6)

Ordering food in a restaurant

97

(7)

At the hairdresser's

104

(6)

Section F Debate and argument

Extracts in which people take up positions, pursue arguments, expound on their opinions on a range of matters.

Local radio phone-in

110

(5)

Student discussion

115

(6)

Section G Language, learning and interaction

Language in an institutional sense and in the context of learning.

School discussion

121

(7)

Kid's stuff

128

(6)

University tutorial

134

(6)

Section H Decision-making/negotiating outcomes

Extracts in which people work towards decisions/consensus or negotiate their way through problems towards solutions.

Planning a family holiday

140

(7)

Publisher's planning meeting

147

(8)

References

155

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