TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oxenden, Clive
AU  - Latham-Koenig,Christina
AU  - Hudson,Jane
TI  - American English File 4
SN  - 9780194774642 (Student Book)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - United States
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Problems, exercises, etc
KW  - B2 (CEFR)
KW  - High Intermediate
N1  - "Four-skills American English course with a communicative methodology, engaging texts, and a strong pronunciation syllabus - designed to get students speaking. With texts and topics that make learners want to speak, American English File is the course that gets students talking.
; It gives you full skills coverage with a clear focus on pronunciation, plus wide-ranging support and resources too."(Publisher's website); CONTENTS; UNIT 1:; a. Q and A; Grammar: review question formation
; Vocabulary : guessing meaning from context
; Pronunciation : intonation, stress, and rhythm in questions; B. Do you believe it?
; Grammar: auxiliary verbs; the...the...+ comparatives
; Vocabulary: personality
; Pronunciation: using a dictionary to check word stress; intonation and sentence rhythm; C. You`re the doctor!
; Grammar: present perfect (simple and continuous)
; Vocabulary : illness and treatment
; Pronunciation : consonant and vowel sounds; COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
; What does the future hold?; WRITING
; An informal e-mail/letter; REVIEW & CHECK
; What do you remember? What can you do?; UNIT 2
; A. National stereotype: truth or myth?
; Grammar : adjective as nouns, adjective order
; Vocabulary: clothes and fashion
; Pronunciation : vowels sounds; B. Air travel : the inside story
; Grammar: narrative tenses, past perfect continuous; so/such ...that
; Vocabulary: air travel
; Pronunciation: irregular past forms; C. Incredibly short stories
; Grammar: adverbs and adverbial phrases
; Vocabulary:  confusing adverbs and adverbial phrases
; Pronunciation: word and sentences stress; COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
; Flying high; WRITING
; A short story; REVIEW & CHECK
; What do you remember? What can you do?; UNIT 3:; A. The one place a burglar won`t look
; Grammar: passive (all forms), it is said that he is thought to..., etc
; Vocabulary: crime and punishment
; Pronunciation: the letter u; B. Stormy weather
; Grammar: future perfect and future continuous
; Vocabulary: weather
; Pronunciation: vowel sounds; COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH; High risk?; WRITING
; Expressing your opinion; REVIEW & CHECK
; What do you remember? What can you do?; UNIT 4
; A. Would you get out alive?
; Grammar: unreal conditionals
; Vocabulary: feelings
; Pronunciation: sentences rhythm; B. How I trained my husband
; Grammar: past modals; would rather, had better
; Vocabulary: verbs often confused
; Pronunciation: reduced form of have; C. Let your body do the talking
; Grammar: verbs of the senses
; Vocabulary: the body
; Pronunciation: silent letters; COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
; Stage and screen; WRITING
; An article; REVIEW & CHECK
; What do you remember? What can you do?; UNIT 5
; A. The psychology of music
; Grammar : gerunds and infinitives
; Vocabulary: music
; Pronunciation: ch and y; B. Counting sheep
; Grammar: used to, be used to, get used to
; Vocabulary: sleep
; Pronunciation: linking words; C. Breaking news
; Grammar: reporting verbs; as
; Vocabulary: the media
; Pronunciation: word stress; COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
; Music festivals; WRITING
; A formal letter; REVIEW & CHECK
; What do you remember? What can you do?; UNIT 6
; A. Speaking to the world
; Grammar: articles
; Vocabulary: collocation: words pairs
; Pronunciation: sentence stress; B. Bright lights, big city
; Grammar: uncountable, plural, and collective nouns; have something done
; Vocabulary: cities and towns
; Pronunciation: word stress in multisyllable words; C. Eureka!
; Grammar: quantifiers: all/every, etc
; Vocabulary: science
; Pronunciation: changing stress in word families; COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
; Great cities; WRITING
; A report; REVIEW & CHECK
; What can you remember? What can you do?; UNIT 7:
; A. I wish you wouldn't...!
; Grammar: structure after wish
; Vocabulary: -ed/ -ing adjectives and related verbs; expressions with go
; Pronunciation: sentence rhythm; B. A test of honesty
; Grammar: clauses of contrast and purpose; whatever, whenever, etc
; Vocabulary: business and advertising
; Pronunciation: changing stress in nouns and verbs; C. Tingo
; Grammar: relative clauses
; Vocabulary: prefixes
; Pronunciation: word stress; COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
; Words; WRITING
; "For and against"; REVIEW & CHECK
; What do you remember? What can you do?; Communication; Audioscripts; Grammar Bank; Vocabulary Bank; Phrasal verbs in context; Sound Bank
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