随着国际交流的日益频繁和迅猛发展，英语的口头表达和交际能力显得愈加重要。编者从事高校英语口语教学多年，深感对中国学生在英语口语技能训练方面，尚需进行更多层面的探索，教师不仅要帮助学生克服“张口难”的障碍，更需要把“注重口语表达”的教学原则置于一种现实而真实的文化背景和宽松而富有情趣的语言环境中去实施，以期学生掌握准确、流利而得体的英语口语。

根据《高等学校英语专业英语教学太纲》的要求，我们借鉴国内外口语教学的成果，结合多年来的教学心得，编写了这套《英语口语教程》，可作为高等院校的教学用书，也可供读者自学之用。

本书是一套以话题和功能为纲编写的口语教材。本教材力图把学生置于英语国家文化背景之中，充分发挥学生的听说能力，引导学生积极主动地进行口语学习。本教材内容覆盖面广，语言环境真实，情景意念生动有趣，语言范例标准地道，注意到不同场合的语言交际过程，强调全面的口语能力培养。

本书为《英语口语教程（第二版）》（学生用书）第二册，共有18个单元，每单元包括way to Speak，challenge to Speak，Topic to Discuss，Fun to Speak。练习形式新颖，由易到难，循序渐进。

本教程共2册，配有教师用书和录音磁带，除供高等院校英语专业一、二年级、师专、教育学院、成人高校等英语专业使用外，还可以作为社会上具有一定英语基础的人员学习和提高英语口语的教材。

Unit 1 Possibility and Impossibility Ways of Traveling

　Part A: Way to Speak

　Part B: Challenge to Speak

　Part C: Topic to Discuss

　Part D: Fun to Speak: Inference A Gtrange Case

Unit 2 Concentration and InterruptionCustoms Inspection, Customs Declaration

　Part A: Wayto Speak

　Part B: Challenge to Speak

　Part C: Topic to Discuss

　Part D: Fun to Speak: Role Play /Have Nothingto Declare

Unit 3 Interest and Boredom Sightseeing in the UK

　Part A: Way to Speak

　Part B: Challenge to Speak

　Part C: Topic to Discuss

　Part D: Fun to Speak: Role Play Let's GtayatHome

Unit 4 Insisting and Urging Sightseeing in the US

　Part A: Way to Speak

　Part B: Challenge to Speak

　Part C: Topic to Discuss

　Part D: Fun to Speak: Questionnaire Op/n/ons andAtt/tudes

Unit 5 Reassuring and Persuading Hotel Reservations

　Part A: Way to Speak

　Part B: Challenge to Speak

　Part C: Topic to Discuss

　Part D: Fun to Speak: Two-in-One Stories The Loan The Burgat

Unit 6 Condition and Concession Business Negotiations

　Part A: Way to Speak

　Part B: Challenge to Speak

　Part C: Topic to Discuss

　Part D: Fun to Speak: Questionnaire

Unit 7 Deducing and Concluding Body Language

　Part A:, Wayto Speak

　Part B: Challenge to Speak

　Part C: Topic to Discuss

　Part D: Fun to Speak: Deduction Puzzles The Lawyers

Unit 8 Obligation and Necessity Environmental Protection

　Part A: Way to Speak

　Part B.“ Challenge to Speak

　Part C: Topic to Discuss

　Part D: Fun to Speak: Inference Recych'ng

Unit 9 Defining and Exemplifying British English and American English

　Part A: Way to Speak

　Part B: Challenge to Speak

　Part C： Topic to Discuss

　Part D: Fun to Speak: Humor Dog FoodThree-Item Story