홈앤서비스 SK BROADBAND

이 책은 단순히 ‘어휘책’도 아니고, ‘회화집’은 더더욱 아니며, ‘에세이집’이라고도 볼 수 없다. 이 책은 한국인들이 한국어식으로 풀어내는 영어가 아닌, 원어민들의 사고와 말의 순서, 표현들을 반영한 이야기들을 엮은 이야기집이다. 이 과정에서 물론 다양한 표현들과 어휘들을 맥락과 함께 익히고, 자연스러운 구문에 대한 이해도 넓힐 수 있다.

Part I Short conversations: Idioms and phrases

1. You hit the nail on the head!
2. He got plastered.
3. How much alcohol can you handle?
4. Let me go get you some hot tea.
5. He is a terrible singer.
6. He is too bossy.
7. Who made me the cleaning lady?
8. Great work, everyone!
9. Please put them in two bags of four.
10. I’ll take that as a “no”!
11. Make that two.
12. These seats are for the elderly and the disabled.
13. Make that thinner!
14. Someone beat me to it.
15. This is my sixth year.
16. I was running a fever and sick all day yesterday.

Part II Short essays

1. Abortion
2. Stray dogs
3. Regulation in space
4. Literary translation
5. Gender pay gap
6. Emergency cash aids
7. Moral obligation
8. Poverty and redistribution
9. Anonymity on-line
10. Machine translators
11. Low birth rates
12. A divided nation
13. Delivery foods and people’s health
14. Sex offenders

Part III My two cents (Longer essays)

1. Saving lives on the cheap
2. The freedom of the press
3. Internet trolls and on-line bullies: the nasty half-brothers
4. Contact-tracing apps
5. Are leggings pants?
6. A nation of prodigies
7. An all-volunteer military
8. Sending my little kiddie off to the military
9. Does poverty cause obesity?
10. Hasty and Cowardly