口語是一種利用語言表達思想、進行口頭交際的能力?！陡叩葘W校英語專業基礎階段英語教學大綱》要求加強培養及培訓學生語言知識的轉換能力。意思是學生通過讀和聽獲得知識、信息和語言，經過思維，在原有知識及語言的基礎上對所獲得的內容和語言加工和重組，賦予新的內容，然后輸出，從而完成交際的全過程。
《英語口語教程》（Oral Workshop）問世于20世紀90年代初，是由北京外國語大學吳禎福教授主持編寫，也是目前我國英語教學界具有相當的影響力的一套教材，至今已經累計銷售數百萬冊。這套優秀的教材哺育了一屆又一屆的英語學習者，為我們國家的改革開放培養了大量的英語專業人才，成為國內主要高等學校英語專業的指定口語教材。實踐證明，這是一套非常富有生命力的教材。
Lesson 35 Never Give up the Hope of Living Text A In this recorded conversation with a friend, Alison Willson described her reactions to the news that she was going to die of cancer. The conversation...
Lesson 34 Isn't It Good to Speak a Foreign Language? Text A "You really are a lucky dog. " Many peole assume that admission into the Institute of Foreign Trade means not only a farewell to "unemployme...
Lesson 33 Thieves Beware : People See You Text A Each year car theft costs us about ￡300 million, and burglary sets us back by another ￡150 million. Yet the police reckon that one car in five is l...
Lesson 32 Do You Know Your Own Character? Text A THE OX You're a hard and conscientiou's worker if you were born in the year of the Ox and you set about everything in a methodical and determined manne...
Lesson 31 Thoughts on the Spring Festival Text A My first Spring Festival in north China was a bit of a shock. Where was the spring? There was snow on the ground and ice on the Summer Palace lake and...
Lesson 30 Who Did It? Text A Inspector Chester of Scotland Yard soon arrived on the scene of the crime. When the newspapermen saw him getting out of the car they immediately realised that matters were...
Lesson 29 The Voices of Time Text A Time talks. It speaks more plainly than words. Time communicates in many ways. Consider the different parts of the day, for example. The time of the day when someth...
Lesson 28 The Perfect Match Text A I walked into the office and shook hands with a smiling man named Mr Bleaucher. He was dressed very well, compared to me. He shuffled a pile of papers like they were...
Lesson 27 Is It an Ideal Career? Text A I am not an extreme feminist. I am not an extreme anything. However, I am a firm believer in equality and freedom. I think we are all entitled to the same right...
Lesson 26 There Are Two Sides to Everything Text A I had a most exasperating and frustrating experience with the hospital today: But Granny had it much worse. First she was the victim of an accident a...
Lesson 25 Don't They Feel Ashamed of Themselves? Text A We were at the terminus and as a bus had just left, there were only the two of us. "We're sure to get good seats," I thought to myself confident...
Lesson 24 Want to Kill Yourself ? Text A I wonder whether smoking is as harmful as doctors make us believe it to be? Some of the things they say are really hair-raising, and even if only half of what...
Lesson 23 All For a Son Text A The desire for a son and heir is common to all mankind. In our country, especially, to have as many male descendents as possible has always been regarded as the greatest...
Lesson 22 Tell Us About Your Hobbies Text A JOHN: What I like most, I suppose, is the fact that it's so unusual. I mean, when I tell people what I do,they just look at me usually as if I'm mad.Maybe I...
Lesson 21 Why Are They So Unlucky? Text A I wonder why so many shop-assistants are so foultempered? Inspite of so many "campaigns" to improve the services in the past years, we see no appreciable chan...
