This book is for adult preintermediate and intermediate learners.

It comprises a series of dialogues to help your listening and speaking skills in English.

It is designed to practice the essential language skills needed for general proficiency in everyday conversations and is suitable for students who want to improve their survival skills needed for socializing and travelling abroad in realistic crosscultural situations. it is also suitable for students follovving a course in business subjects vvhich English as part of the curriculum.

The listening extracts have been chosen to help you learn new language useful vocabulary and expression and pronunciation items so that you will become a better listener and speaker of English.

The listening extracts situational dialogues intervievvs telephone calls as well as everyday conversations. The language used in the extracts reflects the degree of formalityinformality appropriate to the situation.

It contains short selfcontained dialogues organised around the most common functions in everyday life such as greeting entertaining visitors meeting new people and asking for directions as well as situations vvhich you may encounter in the vvorkplacevvhen socializing and travelling abroad.