| Meet the authors |
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| Only got a minute? |
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| Only got five minutes? |
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| Introduction |
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| Alphabet and pronunciation guide |
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| Mutation chart |
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exchanging personal details |
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asking for things in a cafe |
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basic Welsh sentence structure |
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Giving your phone number and address |
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talking about languages that you can speak |
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3 Talking about your family |
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giving your marital status |
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4 Talking about your likes and dislikes |
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Talking about your preferences and hobbies |
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definite and indefinite nouns |
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adjectives which precede the noun |
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5 Extending and accepting an invitation |
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asking someone what they will be doing |
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talking about the weather |
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present tense answer forms |
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the comparative degree of adjectives |
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asking someone to do something |
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saying you have to do something |
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telling someone to do something |
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the superlative degree of adjectives |
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Talking about events in the past |
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saying you have told someone to do something |
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the past tense of regular verbs |
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9 There is something wrong with my car |
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asking about someone's evening out |
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past tense of irregular verbs |
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11 How were your holidays? |
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asking if someone has ever done something |
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Talking about where someone was born and brought up |
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never (present and future tense) |
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the impersonal forms of the passive |
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13 When is your birthday? |
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greetings for different times of the year |
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sympathizing with someone |
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the equative degree of adjectives |
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14 Arranging your holiday |
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talking about future events |
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booking a short stay in a hotel |
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booking accommodation by letter |
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the future tense of regular verbs |
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`os' (if) followed by the future tense |
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15 She'll go instead of you tomorrow |
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Talking about the future again |
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Ordering food and drink in a restaurant |
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describing a meal you have had |
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17 Describing your house and your area |
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Details of houses for sale |
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Saying what you would do if you could |
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saying what you would like to do |
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saying what you ought to do and ought to have done |
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19 What time is the next train? |
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Telling the time in Welsh |
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understanding job advertisements |
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Giving the reason why something is happening (because...) |
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the nominative (`that') clause |
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the nominative clause following particles of speech |
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Stressing an element in a sentence |
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saying you could have done something |
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saying you would have liked to have done something |
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accusing somebody of doing something |
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denying and accepting blame |
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saying that something belongs to you |
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answering an emphatic question |
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the emphatic nominative clause |
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| Progress tests |
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276 | (7) |
| Appendix 1 Regional variations |
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| Appendix 2 How to say `yes'. and `no' |
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286 | (2) |
| Key to the exercises |
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288 | (22) |
| Glossary of grammatical terms |
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| Welsh-English vocabulary |
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314 | (18) |
| English-Welsh vocabulary |
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332 | (13) |
| Taking it further |
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