Explaining Conversations

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Appropriate for use by students at varying levels of competence, Burmese: A Cultural Approach provides a thorough and systematic introduction to the Burmese writing system in Part One and a series of true-to-life conversations in Part Two. Students with some prior knowledge of the spoken language but little familiarity with the Burmese script can use Part One to solidify their grasp of the Burmese sound system as well as its orthography. Intrepid beginners could also start their study of the language by making use of Part One. Doing so would mean making a slower start at formulating phrases as compared to using a romanization system but learners would gain a firmer foundation for the later—and eventually, faster—development of their speaking and reading skills. The conversations in Part Two are extensively annotated in order to illustrate grammatical patterns, characteristic turns of phrase, and typical habits of social interaction. True to an anthropological approach to language le

Although the arts have been firmly planted in the Hong Kong school system since the 1950s, they are often sacrificed in place of core subjects and preparation for examinations. Drawing on over fourteen years of exploration and experience, Yau makes the case that arts are critical to cultivating creative mindsets, which are our best resource for innovating and responding to challenges in this complex world of sudden changes. Through case studies and conversations with practising artists and educators, this book demonstrates why arts and education, two normally discrete disciplines, should be broadly integrated into the local Hong Kong curriculum, and how this can be – and has been – achieved. This book is intended for policymakers, educators, arts heads, and artists. The volume will also appeal to readers curious about how and why the arts should be foundational to education and capacity building in the twenty-first century.

《实用大学英语视听教程1》按主题编写，共8个单元。每一单元包含两大部分。第一部分为引入部分，由听写（Dictation）、主题讨论（Discussion）和视频观看（Video Watching）构成。其中听写部分按循序渐进的原则，从短句听写，到长句听写，逐渐过渡到短文听写。视频部分为学生提供了相关文化背景和词汇表等信息，配有选择题和简答题两种听力题型，用以检测学生对视频材料主旨和细节的把握。此外，学生还需完成和视频主题相关的写作任务。第二部分为听力实践部分。此部分包含各种听力技巧的详细讲解和大量的听力实践练习，包括短对话（Short Conversations）、长对话（Long Conversations）、新闻报道（News Reports）和学术演讲（Lectures）。本教材选用真实、新颖、地道的语料，贴合时代脉搏，贴近学生生活，充分利用现代信息技术，将视、听、说、读、写相结合，旨在通过真实的语境、地道的语言、灵活多样的练习形式和丰富生动的内容来提高大学生英语视听兴趣，促进其语言综合应用能力、批判思维能力和跨文化交际能力的提升。

《实用大学英语视听教程2》按主题编写，共10个单元。每一单元包含两大部分。第一部分为引入部分，由听写（Dictation）、主题讨论（Discussion）和视频观看（Video Watching）构成。其中听写部分按循序渐进的原则，从短句听写，到长句听写，逐渐过渡到短文听写。视频部分为学生提供了相关文化背景和词汇表等信息，配有选择题和简答题两种听力题型，用以检测学生对视频材料主旨和细节的把握。此外，学生还需完成和视频主题相关的写作任务。本书第二部分为听力实践部分。此部分包括短对话（Short Conversations）、长对话（Long Conversations）、新闻报道（News Reports）和学术演讲（Lecture Listening）。本教材选用真实、新颖、地道的语料，贴合时代脉搏，贴近学生生活，充分利用现代信息技术，将视、听、说、读、写相结合，旨在通过真实的语境、地道的语言、灵活多样的练习形式和丰富生动的内容来提高大学生英语视听兴趣，促进其语言综合应用能力、批判思维能力和跨文化交际能力的提升。

《大学英语视听进阶教程》按主题编写，共 １０ 个单元。 每一单元包含两大部分。 第一部分为引入部分， 由听写（Ｄｉｃｔａｔｉｏｎ）、主题讨论（Ｄｉｓｃｕｓｓｉｏｎ）和视频观看（Ｖｉｄｅｏ Ｗａｔｃｈｉｎｇ）构成。 其中听写部分按循序渐进的 原则，从短句听写，到长句听写，逐渐过渡到短文听写。 视频部分为学生提供了相关文化背景和词汇表等信 息，配有选择题和简答题两种听力题型，用以检测学生对视频材料主旨和细节的把握。 此外，学生还需完成和 视频主题相关的写作任务。 本书第二部分为听力实践部分。 此部分包括短对话（Ｓｈｏｒｔ Ｃｏｎｖｅｒｓａｔｉｏｎｓ）、长对 话（Ｌｏｎｇ Ｃｏｎｖｅｒｓａｔｉｏｎｓ）、新闻报道（Ｎｅｗｓ Ｒｅｐｏｒｔｓ）和学术演讲（Ｌｅｃｔｕｒｅ Ｌｉｓｔｅｎｉｎｇ）。 本教材选用真实、新颖、 地道的语料，贴合时代脉搏，贴近学生生活，充分利用现代信息技术，将视、听、说、读、写相结合，旨在通过真实 的语境、地道的语言、灵活多样的练习形式和丰富生动的内容来提高大学生英语视听兴趣，促进其语言综合应 用能力、批判思维能力和跨文化交际能力的提升。

《大学英语视听初阶教程》按主题编写，共 ９ 个单元。 每一单元包含两大部分。 第一部分为引入部分，由 听写（Ｄｉｃｔａｔｉｏｎ）、主题讨论（Ｄｉｓｃｕｓｓｉｏｎ）和视频观看（Ｖｉｄｅｏ Ｗａｔｃｈｉｎｇ）构成。 其中听写部分按循序渐进的原 则，从短句听写，到长句听写，逐渐过渡到短文听写。 视频部分为学生提供了相关文化背景和词汇表等信息， 配有选择题和简答题两种听力题型，用以检测学生对视频材料主旨和细节的把握。 此外，学生还需完成和视 频主题相关的写作任务。 第二部分为听力实践部分。 此部分包含各种听力技巧的详细讲解和大量的听力实 践练习，包括短对话（Ｓｈｏｒｔ Ｃｏｎｖｅｒｓａｔｉｏｎｓ）、长对话（Ｌｏｎｇ Ｃｏｎｖｅｒｓａｔｉｏｎｓ）、新闻报道（Ｎｅｗｓ Ｒｅｐｏｒｔｓ）和学术演 讲（Ｌｅｃｔｕｒｅｓ）。 本教材选用真实、新颖、地道的语料，贴合时代脉搏，贴近学生生活，充分利用现代信息技术， 将视、听、说、读、写相结合，旨在通过真实的语境、地道的语言、灵活多样的练习形式和丰富生动的内容来提高 大学生英语视听兴趣，促进其语言综合应用能力、批判思维能力和跨文化交际能力的提升。

《邊學邊用：粵語聽說教材（二）》是為非華語母語背景的學習者編寫的以粵語作為二語學習的教材。本書課本內容取材自生活場景，提供常用詞彙，並附上活學活用的練習，讓學習者能在日常生活中靈活使用粵語。 “Cantonese in Communication”is a series of textbooks designed for learners learning Cantonese as a second language. It targets to use daily language scenarios, useful vocabulary, lively conversations and exercise in a practical way. It is meant for learners with no Chinese background to use Cantonese in their daily life.

《边学边用：华语听说教材》是针对以普通话为第二语言 / 外语人士的特点和需要编写的系列普通话口语教材。教材取材於普通话母语人士的口语对话，帮助学习者学习普通话，在日常生活或专业领域学以致用。 “Chinese (Putonghua) in Communication” is a series of spoken Putonghua textbooks designed for learners studying Putonghua as a second / foreign language. By drawing all examples and sample conversations from authentic speaking materials collected from native Putonghua speakers, this book series is suitable for learners aiming at learning practical Putonghua to be used in their daily as well as professional lives.

ESL/EFL Cases: Contexts for Teacher Professional Discussions is designed to provoke conversations on language teaching from multiple perspectives. The format of the presentation of cases allows the reader to gain insights on teaching from the vantage point of the students’ proficiency, the teacher’s perspective, the writers’ questions and suggested answers and finally the critical commentary. Readers are treated as thinking professionals who are capable of analysing the acts of language teaching through the teaching excerpts and the dynamic lesson transcriptions. The questions and critical commentary encourage deeper and more critical processing rather than a superficial interpretation of the teaching act. The cases, derived from authentic teaching contexts, encourage readers to appreciate the rich tapestry of teaching with all its complexities. Designed to promote professional discussions and deeper reflective and more effective practice, this book is a must for the teacher education

"Wine Travelogue: Exploring the Charms of the Okanagan Valley" unveils the journey of savouring the wines of Canada's Okanagan Valley! When you think of Canadian wine, ice wine might be the first to come to mind. However, when the author embarked on a wine tour in the Okanagan Valley and tasted over a hundred local wines, he was immediately captivated by the reds, whites, sparklings, and rosés. This book is presented in both Chinese and English, brimming with captivating photographs and text. It chronicles the author's adventures and emotions, along with wine tasting notes and conversations with individual winemakers, grape growers, and estate managers during visits to twelve representative wineries across the Okanagan Valley, from north to south. The photographs vividly portray the region's lakes and mountains, the vineyards, and the winemaking facilities of each winery, as well as the warm faces of the local community. The book also delves into the author's insights into the regi

In Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985, Alan Smart and Fung Chi Keung Charles trace two decades of development of squatting in Hong Kong. The authors reconstruct the government policy on squatting through both ethnographic and archival research. The book sheds new light on the consequences of various attempts to control encroachment on scarce urban space. It argues that intersecting policy agendas resulted in decisions that were often not desired, but which emerged as practical solutions from prior failures. The authors address the challenges of explaining confidential policy decisions and offer new approaches applicable in other contexts. Overall, Smart and Fung make an important contribution to the understanding of how public housing and squatting interacted in influential ways that have been poorly understood and offer new perspectives on the challenges of urban governance and housing problems.

《邊學邊用：華語聽說教材》是針對以普通話為第二語言／外語人士的特點和需要編寫的普通話口語系列教材。教材取材於普通話母語人士的口語對話，幫助學習者學習普通話，在日常生活或專業領域學以致用。 “Chinese（Putonghua）in Communication” is a series of spoken Putonghua textbooks designed for learners studying Putonghua as a second／foreign language. By drawing all examples and sample conversations from authentic speaking materials collected from native Putonghua speakers, this book series is suitable for learners aiming at learning practical Putonghua to be used in their daily as well as professional lives. 本書特點： Features of this textbook: 1. 簡體中文和漢語拼音對照，並附繁體中文供參考。 Simplified Chinese characters and Pinyin（Romanization）are presented side by side, also with conventional Chinese characters attached for reference. 2. 豐富多彩的練習，還原日常生活場景，活學活用。 Providing various communicative tasks simulating real world scenarios or situations. 3. 隨書附課文及詞彙錄音。 Providing full recordings of text and vocabulary. 4. 本書在大學已經使用多年，特別適合短訓班，學習者可以在比較短的時間內，基本掌握學校課堂、交通詢問、邀約、留言、飲食購物、簡短講演等方面的語言運用。 This textbook has been used

Archival records are meant to serve as evidence of responsible governance, and in addition to their undeniable political value, they also serve as the basic component of a nation’s documentary heritage. Records today are history tomorrow. However, with the absence of an Archives Law in Hong Kong and the significance of keeping records being overlooked or actually not understood by people of Hong Kong, there are heightened concerns that government records would be destroyed for unjustifiable reasons and that public’s rights to access well-preserved government records would be deprived of. This book in 16 chapters is based on a series of direct face-to-face interviews with different practising archivists and special library managers in Hong Kong. Their conversations recorded in the book not only enable readers to understand the urgency of approving the Archives Law, but also reveal the details about their profession, as well as the richness of the local heritage that is uniquely Hong Ko

依據最新多益出題趨勢，全面分析核心題型， 搭配最精準的仿真考題、切中要點的詳盡解析， 於短期密集訓練中，掌握解題策略並高效提升答對率， 一本搞定聽力及閱讀，穩健邁向黃金證書！ 本書特色 【特色一】緊扣多益出題趨勢，點出命題方向和解析高頻考題 本書全面分析近年多益歷屆試題，集結成關鍵試題，及能讓考生迅速掌握出題模式與方向的精華單元，捨棄不必要的冗長解說，保留最質精的核心要點。針對聽力及閱讀基礎題型提供解題策略和技巧，即使是多益新手也能快速領略考題要點。 【特色二】一本全面破解聽力及閱讀所有題型結構 本書深入拆解多益第一至第七部分各大題型，針對多樣化題目列出解題策略及切中要點的解說，讓考生能培養從文章中迅速找出答案的能力，並提升解題效率和正確度、全面掌握題型重點、推測可能答案和避開陷阱選項。 ［多益聽力題型結構］ Part 1 照片描述（Photographs）→聽完四個短句後，選出最符合照片的描述。 Part 2 應答問題（Question-Response）→聽完題目句與三句回應句後，選出最適當的答案。 Part 3 簡短對話（Short Conversations）→聽完雙人或三人對話後，針對相關的三道考題選出最適當的答案。 Part 4 簡短獨白（Short Talks）→聽完獨白後，針對相關的三道考題選出最適當的答案。 ［多益閱讀題型結構］ Part 5 句子填空（Incomplete Sentences）→從四個選項中選出最適合填入句中空格的單字或片語。 Part 6 段落填空（Text Completion）→文章中會出現四個空格，分別選出最適合填入的單字、片語或句子。 Part 7 閱讀理解（Reading Comprehension）→ 閱讀完文章後，回答對應文章的二至五道考題。 【特色三】從快狠準單元即時演練到各部分整合題，循序漸進鞏固實力 每單元透過CHECK-UP及PRACTICE小練習，讓考生可打鐵趁熱，立即運用學到的解題策略及得分祕訣來檢核知識理論。同時作答高難度練習題，做好應戰較難得分考題的準備。最後以PART TEST診斷測驗作結，用扎實的演練來檢測實力。 【特色四】多國口音錄製的聽力音檔，精準掌握命題範圍與主題的閱讀文章 按照多益實際測驗內容，以美、英、澳三國口音錄製完整聽力音檔。廣納實際用於日常生活及工作的文章，

依據最新多益出題趨勢，全面分析核心題型， 搭配最精準的仿真考題、切中要點的詳盡解析， 於短期密集訓練中，掌握解題策略並高效提升答對率， 一本搞定聽力及閱讀，穩健邁向黃金證書！ 本書特色 【特色一】緊扣多益出題趨勢，點出命題方向和解析高頻考題 本書全面分析近年多益歷屆試題，集結成關鍵試題，及能讓考生迅速掌握出題模式與方向的精華單元，捨棄不必要的冗長解說，保留最質精的核心要點。針對聽力及閱讀基礎題型提供解題策略和技巧，即使是多益新手也能快速領略考題要點。 【特色二】一本全面破解聽力及閱讀所有題型結構 本書深入拆解多益第一至第七部分各大題型，針對多樣化題目列出解題策略及切中要點的解說，讓考生能培養從文章中迅速找出答案的能力，並提升解題效率和正確度、全面掌握題型重點、推測可能答案和避開陷阱選項。 ［多益聽力題型結構］ Part 1 照片描述（Photographs）→聽完四個短句後，選出最符合照片的描述。 Part 2 應答問題（Question-Response）→聽完題目句與三句回應句後，選出最適當的答案。 Part 3 簡短對話（Short Conversations）→聽完雙人或三人對話後，針對相關的三道考題選出最適當的答案。 Part 4 簡短獨白（Short Talks）→聽完獨白後，針對相關的三道考題選出最適當的答案。 ［多益閱讀題型結構］ Part 5 句子填空（Incomplete Sentences）→從四個選項中選出最適合填入句中空格的單字或片語。 Part 6 段落填空（Text Completion）→文章中會出現四個空格，分別選出最適合填入的單字、片語或句子。 Part 7 閱讀理解（Reading Comprehension）→ 閱讀完文章後，回答對應文章的二至五道考題。 【特色三】從快狠準單元即時演練到各部分整合題，循序漸進鞏固實力 每單元透過CHECK-UP及PRACTICE小練習，讓考生可打鐵趁熱，立即運用學到的解題策略及得分祕訣來檢核知識理論。每章節最後以PART TEST診斷測驗作結，協助考生刷題培養手感，用扎實的演練來穩固基礎實力。 【特色四】多國口音錄製的聽力音檔，精準掌握命題範圍與主題的閱讀文章 按照多益實際測驗內容，以美、英、澳三國口音錄製完整聽力音檔。廣納實際用於日常生活及工作的文章，涵蓋一般商務、金融

1. 以真實的情景話題編寫課文對話，讓讀者可以邊學邊用、活學活用。 2. 歸納活用詞彙，讓讀者輕鬆掌握高頻使用的粵語詞彙。 3. 詳解粵語語法結構、標註語用知識，讓讀者了解粵語語法框架和使用的特殊性。 《邊學邊用︰粵語聽說教材》是為非華語母語背景的學習者編寫的以粵語作為二語學習的系列教材。本書課本內容取材自生活場景，提供常用詞彙，並附上活學活用的練習，讓學習者能在日常生活中靈活使用粵語。 “Cantonese in Communication” is a series of textbooks designed for learners learning Cantonese as a second language. It targets to use daily language scenarios, useful vocabulary, lively conversations and exercise in a practical way. It is meant for learners with no Chinese background to use Cantonese in their daily life. 本書特色： 1. Features of this textbook:全書使用耶魯–羅馬標音系統標註粵語。 2. Widely-used Yale-Romanization system to transcribe Cantonese. 3. 本書分課時立設學習目標使學習者可以更高效率地增強粵語溝通能力。 Setting clear stage goals to improve oral proficiency. 4. 隨書附課文錄音，並提供大量的聽說練習。 Providing a variety of exercises for practicing speaking and listening skills, and full recordings of text and vocabulary. 5. 本書在大學已經使用多年，特別適合短訓班，學習者可以在比較短的時間內，基本掌握學校課堂、交通詢問、邀約、留言、飲食購物、簡短講演等方面的語言運用。 This textbook has been used for many yea