Oral Workshop教材简介
外研社英语口语权威教程--《英语口语教程》（Oral Workshop）包含外研社《英语初级口语》、《英语中级口语》及《英语高级口语》为北京外国语大学吴祯福教授历时6年的呕心沥血之作，教材选取了丰富的口语素材，是国内最系统、最科学的一套全面提高英语口语的教材，并一直作各高校英语专业的首选口语教材。
问世于20世纪90年代初，是目前我国英语教学界具有相当的影响力的一套教材，至今已经累计销售数百万册。这套优秀的教材哺育了一届又一届的英语学习者，为国家培养了大量的英语专业人才，成为国内主要高等学校英语专业的指定口语教材。实践证明，这是一套非常富有生命力的教材。
课程采用“话题”教学法，选取当前最热门的话题，针对中国学生学习口语的难点，现代教学理念与传统教学模式的融合，有助于培养学习者英语思维的能力和用英语表达的技巧，通过循序渐进的学习过程全面提高学习者的英语交际能力。
初级部分40课，包括饮食起居，节假日、晚会、舞会、作客、通信，电视、电影、购物、求医、求学、旅游等内容。课文多是与日常生活相关的小故事与对话。
中级部分35课，包括爱情友谊、生儿育女、公共道德、人际关系、个性特点。生活习惯、趣味爱好， 生活经历，体育运动、勤工俭学，学习方法、健康减肥、犯罪案例等内容。
高级部分28课，包括对各种问题的辩论，诸如青年人的思想情绪，广告的优劣、寻找对象的方式，妇女的地位。住房改造、对“大锅饭”的态度。对老板的态度、工作的意义、独生子女的教育、城乡差别、教育改革，时装美容。对钱的态度，批评与表扬，两代人的差 别、对时间的看法等内容。
本套mp3录音者皆是英语国家的学者和专家，配音清晰、流畅、优美，语音、语调标准纯正。
本MP3特别适合
1. 大学英语专业一、二年级或非英语专业的学生
2．有一定英语基础、想全面、系统提高口语水平的人士
Lesson 1 Does Television Play a Positive or Negative Role in the Modern Society? Text Do the Advantages of Television Outweigh the Disadvantages? Television is now playing a very important part in our life. But television, like other things, has both...
Lesson 2 Are Pets Good for Mankind? Text Pets Are Good for You The basic meaning of pet is an animal we keep for emotional rather than economic reasons. A pet animal is kept as a companion, and we all need companions to keep us feeling happy. But pet...
Lesson 3 Should the Brain Drain Be Stopped by Restrictions? Text Brain Drain It is said that Shanghai's musicians abroad could form a worldclass symphony orchestra. But the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra once failed to find a qualified conductor for a w...
Lesson 4 Does Criticism Do More Harm Than Good to People? Text A Yoang Woman Who Fears Compliments Marya, a brilliant graduate student in her early twenties who came for consultation, insisted that she could improve only with criticism. Her reasoning...
Lesson 5 Is It Good for Students to Have Part-time Jobs? Text School Part-timers More and more high school students in Beijing are turning their minds to ways of making money. They are capitalizing on opportunities such as one group of students who w...
Lesson 6 Is Euthanasia Humane? Text A Doctor of Good Repntation Hastened His Patient's Death The most famous mercy killing case in America's history involves Dr. Herman N. Sanders, a country doctor from New Hampshire. In the early 1950s Dr. Sanders h...
Lesson 7 Do Examinations Do More Harm Than Good? Text On Eggs and Exams I've been acting like an egg striking a rock. What is this egg? It's the campaign against the old-fashioned way of teaching Intensive Reading . And what' s the rock?. It' s the o...
Lesson 8 Should We Diet in Order to Keep Fit? Text How Does It Feel to Lose Weight? Here is a conversation between a heart specialist and a heart patient. Vic: I've been feeling very lonely. I can't explain it, I'm in a crowd but I feel lonely. And s...
Lesson 9 Is It a Good Idea to Control Population Growth in the World? Text What Overpopulation Feels Like We moved slowly through the city in a taxi and entered a crowded slum district. The temperature was well over 100and the air was thick with dust...
Lesson 10 Should Students Only Learn from Books? Text Try to Find out about Real Life During my recent tour to Kunming in Yunnan Province, I encountered a young Australian at Liuzhou railway station . I helped him get on board the train with his lugg...
Lesson 11 Does Parental Permissiveness Affect Children's Development? Text Who Is to Blame, Mimi, or Her Parents? I always thought Xiao Hong a sl;oilt and wilful child, but today I met a girl a hundred times worse. Compared to her, Xiao Hong is an an...
Lesson 12 Is It Necessary to Develop Toarism? Text A Little Good Will Can Help People Understand Each Other Today we had an American family, the Robinsons, for Sunday dinner. The man is in China on a joint project with the department where Mum works....
Lesson 13 Work to Live or Live to Work? Text What Does Work Mean to People? A group of people from different walks of life are being interviewed about what role vork plays in their lives. Their attitudes, as we can see, vary. Interviewer: Mr. Fisher,...
Lesson 14 Does the Younger Generation Know Best? Text The Younger Generation Knows Best Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment is made from generation to generation and it is always true. It has never bee...
Lesson 15 Should Smoking Be Prohibited? Text Passive Path to Death for Non-smokers Alice Trillin was 38 and thought she was in excellent health. Then this completely crazy thing happened. I coughed and a tiny, tiny blood clot took me to get a chest X...
