Reading English Objectively 3 [antikvár]

The material in this book is suitable for advanced students of English, for those preparing for the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, for Stage III of the Royal Society of Arts Examination or for Grade II of the Institute of Linguists. It has alsó proved helpful to Diploma and University students. The units are designed for training in comprehension and for practice in reading and writing at an advanced level. We hope too that many of the topics covered will lend themselves to discussion in class-controlled or free-at the discretion of the teacher. We have tried to make our material as varied as possible, basing questions and exercises not only on prose passages, but alsó on dialogues, newspaper reports, travel brochures and even very simple statistics. Up to this point in their studies many students may have been acquainted only with rather literary English on the one hand, and somewhat over-contrived colloquial English on the other. Colloquial English must obviously be carefully selected and graded at the earlier stages of language learning, but in many textbooks the resulting dialogues and passages often fail to ring true. We feel that the really advanced student can be expected to come to grips with the idiom and structures of the everyday English he can expect to hear all around him if he comes to England; equally, he should be able to cope fairly competently with the language of mass média. These considerations have greatly influenced us in our choice of material. Finally, we have tried to select topics which can be said to have somé bearing on everyday life in England-or, perhaps more accurately, in London. For example, they touch on typical leisure activities, education, public transport, the