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UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION
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UNDERSTANDING EVERYDAY AUSTRALIAN
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Understanding Everyday Australian

The Understanding Everyday Australian series which includes student and teacher books and audio CD resources. These resources are enjoyable and easy to use and explain contemporary Australian language. It incorporates widely used everyday Australian expressions, pronunciation and practical hints for general conversation. It also assists those who are teaching English grammar, pronunciation and listening skills. Order your copy today!

"Contents Lists" - Click on book number   UEA Book 1   UEA Book 2   UEA Book 3

Understanding Everyday Australian has been designed for students who have reached an intermediate level of Australian language proficiency. As a guide to Australian language as it is spoken in everyday situations throughout mainstream Australian society, it will be beneficial to anyone interested in Australian English and Austrlaian expressions.

Using this Australian Language guide you will

  • Learn over 200 widely used everyday Australian expressions.
  • Find the step by step format easy to use for learning the Australian language.
  • Find it practical and relevant to everyday life.
  • Discover useful advice on social conventions of some everyday situations.
  • Find language reviews, exercises and answers useful to learning.
  • Find the accompanying audio cassette will improve your Australian language listening skills.
  • Feel your confidence grow as you become familiar with the everyday Australian language.

"Understanding Everyday Australian is an invaluable and much needed resource for intermediate students and teachers of Australian English. It is innovative, user-friendly and highly relevant to learners' needs as it presents Australian English to learners in context, as it is spoken across a broad range of situations, throughout mainstream Australian Society. I highly recommend it."
Ann Baker - Author of "Ship or Sheep", Cambridge University Press
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Understanding Everyday Australian - Student Book One
Contents

UNIT 1 STARTING SOMETHING NEW
Focus on Spoken Language: Contracted speech; Telephone Language
UNIT 2 TALKING ABOUT THE FAMILY
Focus on Spoken Language: Using Question Tags
UNIT 3 TALKING ABOUT THE NEIGHBOURS
Focus on Spoken Language: Changing the Topic of Conversation;
Giving an opinion

LANGUAGE REVIEW ONE
 
UNIT 4 TALKING ABOUT SHOPPING
Focus on Spoken Language: Revision: Units 1 - 3
UNIT 5 VISITING THE DOCTOR
Focus on Spoken Language: Stages in a Medical Consultation
UNIT 6 WORRYING ABOUT MONEY
Focus on Spoken Language: Giving Feedback; Justifying Opinions

LANGUAGE REVIEW TWO
 
UNIT 7 TALKING ABOUT HOLIDAYS
Focus on Spoken Language: Intonation; Sentence Stress
UNIT 8 PHONING A TRADESPERSON
Focus on Spoken Language: Stages in a Phone Request for Service;
Checking meaning; Using Polite Language when Requesting Service.
UNIT 9 SOCIALISING AT A BARBECUE
Focus on Spoken Language: Making Small Talk
Informal introductions; Turn Taking in Conversation

LANGUAGE REVIEW THREE
ANSWERS TO EXERCISES AND CROSSWORDS
REFERENCE LISTS
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Understanding Everyday Australian - Student Book Two
Contents

GLOSSARY OF LANGUAGE TERMS 2
UNIT 1 A TELEPHONE ENQUIRY
Focus on Spoken Language:
Telephoning strategies: Giving a reason for the call; Making polite requests.
Pronunciation: Unstressed syllables; Word linking.
4
UNIT 2 TALKING ABOUT STUDY PROBLEMS
Focus on Spoken Language: Making suggestions; Giving Reasons
Pronunciation: /I/ and /i:/; Using a Dictionary Pronunciation Key.
14
UNIT 3 TALKING ABOUT EMPLOYMENT
Focus on Spoken Language: Use of articles (a, an, the)
Pronunciation: unstressed articles - listening practice
Present perfect/ past simple tense
Interview strategies: Giving informative answers.
24

LANGUAGE REVIEW ONE
34
UNIT 4 TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS
Pronunciation: Hearing & Pronouncing Syllables; Syllable stress.
Focus on Spoken Language: Discourse markers
36
UNIT 5 POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Focus on Spoken Language: Conversation Strategies: Disagreeing politely.
Use of Pronouns; Pronunciation/spelling of they're/their; we're/were, etc.
48
UNIT 6 A NEW VENTURE - MAKING DECISIONS
Focus on Spoken Language: 'it' & 'one' as noun substitutes.
Giving advice: 'If I were you, I'd…; Revision: Syllable stress
58

LANGUAGE REVIEW TWO
68
UNIT 7 TALKING ABOUT THE PAST
Focus on Spoken Language: used to/would (for past habits).
Pronunciation: 'ed' ending on words; the sounds /I/, /e/.
70
UNIT 8 ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS
Focus on Spoken Language: Giving instructions/imperatives.
Pronunciation: the sound /aI/; Words beginning with the letter 'u'.
80
UNIT 9 FUTURE PLANS AND POSSIBILITIES
Focus on Spoken Language: Future tenses: will/going to…
Present continuous for future arrangements.
90
UNIT 10 HAVING DINNER WITH FRIENDS
Focus on Spoken Language: Pronunciation: different sounds of the letter 'o'.
'Me neither'/Me too; Ways of using of the verb 'have'.
100

LANGUAGE REVIEW THREE
110

ANSWERS TO EXERCISES AND CROSSWORDS
112

VERB LIST
124

A LIST OF AUSSIE WORDS ENDING IN 'ie' & 'y'
125

REFERENCE LISTS
126

PHONEMIC CHART
136
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Understanding Everyday Australian - Student Book Three
Contents


GLOSSARY OF LANGUAGE TERMS
UNIT 1 OTHER CULTURES
Focus on Spoken Language:
Noticing ‘weak’ forms in spoken English
we’re, were and where (and other words that are pronounced similarly)
A ‘cultural thing’.
6
UNIT 2 SPORT AND HOBBIES
Focus on Spoken Language:
Using the correct verb when talking about sport and hobbies - play, go or do?
Describing feelings and situations - adjectives ending in with ‘ed’ and ‘ing’
Expressing attitudes and preferences.
18
UNIT 3 DIET AND FITNESS
Focus on Spoken Language:
Uses of ‘on’ and ‘off’
Sequencing in storytelling
As the saying goes… (popular sayings)
Giving an opinion using : When it comes to…it’s a matter of…
Nouns used as adjectives
28

LANGUAGE REVIEW ONE
40
UNIT 4 THE ENVIRONMENT
Focus on Spoken Language: Discourse markers
Definite article ‘the’
Uses of the word ‘take’
Phrasal verbs
Describing what is happening
Reference Pages
Phrasal verbs
Examples of phrasal verbs with ‘take’
42
UNIT 5 FEARS AND PHOBIAS
Focus on Spoken Language:
Word Linking in Spoken English
Word combinations – using the correct preposition
Plural nouns
Uses of ‘only’
Synonyms
Reference Page – Understanding Connected Speech
56
UNIT 6 PEOPLE AND RELATIONSHIPS
Focus on Spoken Language:
Regular and irregular past tense verbs
Discourse markers in story telling
‘So ‘and ‘such’ to add emphasis
Reference Page – Irregular past tense verbs
66

LANGUAGE REVIEW TWO
76
UNIT 7 TALKING ABOUT SOCIAL ISSUES
Focus on Spoken Language:
Giving conversational feedback & disagreeing politely
As the saying goes… (more popular sayings)
Grammar - reflexive pronouns
Asking an opinion with a negative question
Incomplete sentences in spoken language
Reference Pages
Conversation strategies
Agreeing, disagreeing, staying neutral, asking for clarification
Discourse Markers
78
UNIT 8 THE MEDIA
Focus on Spoken Language:
The definite article - review
‘That’ to refer back to a previous statement
Open ended questions
‘You get used to it’.
Uses of the verb ‘get’
Reference Page – Phrasal verbs with ‘get’
90
UNIT 9 BUSINESS NEGOTIATIONS
Focus on Spoken Language:
Forming questions - review of the ‘rules’. Questions in Spoken English
Telephone introductions
Incomplete sentences in spoken English
Greetings and replies
The Negotiating Process
100

LANGUAGE REVIEW THREE
110

ANSWERS TO EXERCISES AND CROSSWORDS
112

REFERENCE LISTS - everyday rexpressions with definitions
124

British versus North America spelling conventions
133

Phonemic Chart of English Sounds
134

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