口语是衡量学生英语语言运用水平的主要标志之一，也是中国学生在学习中最容易忽视的部分，它在整个英语学习的过程中应占有特别重要的位置。本书基于这种理念，根据《新概念英语》课文的难易程度编排相应的口语材料，所选材料涉及各个领域，同时提供大量精选短文和配套练习。它的最大特点是能够把课文经典句式、课外练习材料与重点口语词汇融合在一起，使学习者在提高口语能力的同时掌握更多、更全面的知识。

本书萃取符合学习者心理特点和逻辑思维方式的相关文章，题材广泛，篇幅适中，极富启发性，它的核心点为强化训练，具体来说，本书对应新概念每一课分为以下三个模块。

本书从学习者的需要出发，分为“你必须背诵的”、“你一定熟读的”、“你最好掌握的”三大板块。让读者在立足课内学习和研读的基础上，自然而然地拓展到课外的“优美的散文诗歌”和“名人的演讲”的学习和赏析，大大丰富了英语学习的内涵，有助于提升学习口语的感知力和领悟力，进而获得英语口语学习的真知。

本书可读性强，对于广大英语学习者而言，是一本必不可少的自修读本。

前言

Lesson 1 A puma at large

Lesson 2 Thirteen equals one

Lesson 3 An unknown goddess

Lesson 4 The double l ife Of Alfred BIoggs

Lesson 5 The facts

Lesson 6 Smash-and-grab

Lesson 7 Mutilated ladies

Lesson 8 A famous monastery

Lesson 9 Flying cats

Lesson 10 The IOSS Of the 7-itanic

Lesson 11 Not guilty

Lesson 12 Life on a deserl island

Lesson 13 “It's only me”

Lesson 14 A noble gangster

Lesson 15 Fifty pence worth of trouble

Lesson 16 Mary had a Iittle Iamb

Lesson 17 The longest suspension bridge in the world

Lesson 18 Electric currents in modern art

Lesson 19 A very dear cat

Lesson 20 Pioneer pi lots

Lesson 21 DanieI Mendoza

Lesson 22 Bv heart

Lesson 23 One man's meat is another man's poison

Lesson 24 A skeleton in the cupboard

Lesson 25 The Cutty Sark

Lesson 26 Wanted: a large biscuit tin

Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy

Lesson 28 Five pound too dear

Lesson 29 Funny or not?

Lesson 30 The death of a ghost

Lesson 31 A lovable eccentric

Lesson 32 A lost ship

Lesson 33 A day to remember

Lesson 34 A happy discovery

Lesson 35 Justice was done

Lesson 36 A chance in a million

Lesson 37 The Westhaven Express

Lesson 38 The first calendar

Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about

Lesson 40 Who's who

Lesson 41 Illusions of Pastoral peace

Lesson 42 Modern cavemen

Lesson 43 Fully insured

Lesson 44 Speed and comfort

Lesson 45 The power of the press

Lesson 46 Do it yourself

Lesson 47 Too high a price?

Lesson 48 The silent village

Lesson 49 The ideal servant

Lesson 50 New Year resolutions

Lesson 51 Predicting the future

Lesson 52 Mud is mud

Lesson 53 In the public interest

Lesson 54 Instinct or cleverness?

Lesson 55 From the earth: Greetings

Lesson 56 Our neighbour, the river

Lesson 57 Back in the old country

Lesson 58 A spot of bother

Lesson 59 Collecting

Lesson 60 Too early and too late