A DVANCED E V E RY DAY ENGLIS H

with Audio CD

by Steven Colli n s

A DVA N C E D STUDENTS OF ENGLISH

Yo u w i ll never find a better

s e ri e s of books to help you
i m p rove your voca bula ry

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9 7 8 - 0 - 9 5 2 8 3 5 8 - 4 - 4

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 M O N T S E R R AT PUBLISHING
A d v a n c e d E ve r y d ay E n g l i s h

C o py r i g h t © 2 0 1 1 S t e ve n C o l l i n s

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system
or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or
otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by trade or otherwise be lent, resold,
hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding
or cover, other than that it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition,
being imposed on a subsequent purchaser.

First edition 2011

Montserrat Publishing
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Illustrations
Alex Stead
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Typesetting & Cover Design

Naroa Lizar Redrado
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Editing and proofreading

Gavin Best
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CD recording
Soundmagic Studios
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CD voices
Gavin Best
Helen Clarkson
Steve Collins
Jullian Irvine
Alison Jones www.learnenglishadvanced.com

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 To m y b o y - c h i k , D a n i e l ( D . C . R )

Steven Collins was born in London in 1960. He grew up in Harrow and qualified
as a lawyer (solicitor) in 1987, having done a Master’s in Law at Trinity Hall,
Cambridge. He then decided to make a complete change of career and went
into T.E.F.L. (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). Having lived and taught in
Italy and Spain, he returned to London in 1993 to write this book and to open
his own school in Central London, specialising in practical English for advanced
students. However, in 2008 he retired from teaching to concentrate full time on
writing and publishing.

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 Book one
Practical Everyday English with Audio CD
By Steven Collins

Available at all good bookshops and online stores including Amazon

T h i s i s t h e b e s t b o ok on conversational Eng lish

a n d p h ra s a l ve r b s I ’ ve ever read. When I’m
i n t h e U K , I n e ve r go a nywhere without it.

Hideki Noda
(celebrated Japanese playwright)

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9 7 8 - 0 - 9 5 2 8 3 5 8 - 2 - 0

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 Introduction
ADVANCED EVERYDAY ENGLISH
Steven Collins

Thank you for buying Advanced Everyday English with audio CD, the second book in the Practical
Everyday English series. It is an updated, improved and extended (with sixty new words, exercises
and a CD) version of More Practical Everyday English, which is now out of print.

It is designed in very much the same mode as the first one (Practical Everyday English with audio
CD) in that all of the examples will contain vocabulary and expressions you have studied on earlier
pages. You will also find many words from the first book, which will give you an opportunity to revise
the material. In this second book there is more of what one might call “serious” vocabulary, but there
are plenty of phrasal verbs and idioms as well.

The book will be of particular benefit to those readers with an advanced level of English who wish to
become (or who already are) interpreters, translators or teachers of English, or who simply want to
be able to speak and understand English at a very high level. In addition, people who need to read
English language journals or converse in English on a daily basis, either in business or for pleasure,
will find it very useful.

Once again I have included dialogue and exercises at the end of each chapter, so that you can see
how the words are used in free conversation and writing, and test yourself on what you have studied
in each chapter. Like the first book, there are three lessons in each chapter and nine chapters in
total. My suggestion is to read one lesson a week and then do a revision after finishing each chapter.
I hope you enjoy the illustrations too.

Audio CD
When you finish each chapter, you should listen to the CD of the dialogues, which will greatly improve
your comprehension of the words and expressions you have studied in that particular chapter. Don’t
get depressed if you don’t understand everything first time without the book in front of you. This is
perfectly normal. Try again while following the dialogue in the book.

It is my sincere wish that, together with the first book, you find Advanced Everyday English an
invaluable tool in perfecting your English language skills.

Good luck!

Steven Collins
Email practicalenglish@hotmail.co.uk

For more information about the Practical Everyday English series, visit:
www.learnenglishadvanced.com

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