Perfect Phrases for ESL Conversation Skills—Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases That Help You Express Your Thoughts, Ideas, and Feelings in English Conversations of All Types

Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills helps you say the right words at the right time in any situation with perfect confidence. Written by longtime ESL instructor Diane Engelhardt, this book goes beyond simple greetings and introduction phrases: it includes soliciting and offering opinions, talking about personal problems, addressing misunderstandings, and much more. Engelhardt organizes the phrases from formal to informal, (or strong to mild, or indirect to direct) and includes slang expressions, since this is what you will hear, need to understand, and pick up.

Diane Engelhardt has been an ESL instructor for more than 20 years and began her career as an instructor at Berlitz. She has taught conversational and business English to a wide variety of students in Canada and Germany. She also has prepared students for the TOEFL, Cambridge First Certificate, and London Chamber of Commerce (English for Business and Commerce, Intermediate Level). She currently teaches at Royal Roads University International Student Centre in Victoria, Canada.