本套英语口语教材是在结合我国大学英语口语教学和高校学生口语实际水平和需要的基础上,对国内外众多口语教材进行了深入、彻底的研究,具有系统性、适用性和可操作性,符合英语口语教学规律。本书是教师用书,力图从教学原则、教学目的、教学方法、教学步骤、时间分配等方面进行了具体的指导,是教师课堂教学的指导用书。学生也可从本书中提供的教学活动资源及材料中获得口语学习的指导,养成英语表达的习惯和能力。
本书适合大学本科一、二年级学生作为教辅之用,是英语口语教师的**书,也可作为英语口语自学爱好者及参加相关英语口语考试的人员参考之用。

Introduction
LESSON ONE My Island
LESSON TWO Family Tree
LESSON THREE Gestures
LESSON FOUR Parents and Children
LESSON FIVE Education
LESSON SIX Bicycle
LESSON SEVEN Knife and Fork
LESSON EIGHT Descriptions
LESSON NINE Ghosts
LESSON TEN Restaurants
LESSON ELEVEN New Year
LESSON TWELVE Sports
LESSON THIRTEEN Deforestation
LESSON FOURTEEN Wedding
LESSON FIFTEEN Homelessness
LESSON SIXTEEN Amnesty
LESSON SEVENTEEN Friends
LESSON EIGHTEEN Employment Fair
LESSON NINETEEN Believe in Yourself
LESSON TWENTY Faithful Street
LESSON TWENTY-ONE Debate
LESSON TWENTY-TWO War
Additional Lesson for Teachers
ADDITIONAL LESSON ONE Getting to Know Your Students
ADDITIONAL LESSON TWO Pronunciation Poems
ADDITIONAL LESSON THREE Directions
ADDITIONAL LESSON FOUR Emotions
ADDITIONAL LESSON FIVE A Bit of Slang
ADDITIONAL LESSON SIX Class Reunion
ADDITIONAL LESSON SEVEN Grapevine
ADDITIONAL LESSON EIGHT Hypothetically Speaking
ADDITIONAL LESSON NINE Before Breakfast
EXTRAS
Mid-team Projects
British, North American and South African Lexical Differences
Slang
End of Lesson Culture
Jokes
Basic Phonetics
Phonetic Chart
Questions for Discussion in Dormitory
Instructions for Battleships
Debate Topics/Speeches
Animal Sounds (another filler)
Idioms
Oral English Test
Rules of the Classroom
Family Groups (sample grid)
Example of an English Comer Timetable 2005
Battleships
English Names for Students
Multiple Intelligence Test
Multiple Intelligence Test Scoring Sheet
A Few Tongue Twisters