Idioms in English volume one
Idioms like think out of the box and plugged in are used frequently in English. If you don't understand the idioms, you can miss the point of a presentation conversation or email.
All of the idioms are organized in stories and dialogues. Each chapter starts with a listening practice, listen to the story, then click on quiz one in the lower right to see the questions. Then there's a quiz to check your listening comprehension mouse over the tool, listening practice button to get more information. Next, you can read the story or dialogue, a quiz to clarify the meaning of each idiom follows after the story or dialogue, each idiom is shown with the definition, two examples and pronunciation notes. Then you practice the idiom with a scored dictation at the end is a scored final review with fill in the blank multiple choice dictation and word scrambles. With this program, you can improve your listening comprehension, pronunciation and vocabulary in English for lectures and discussions at school for conference calls and meetings at work and for tests like the TOEIC and TOEFL.
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