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Unit 1 The fact that you are beginning to study this book shows that you are no longer what is called an Intermediate student of English but can be considered Advanced – that is to say, it can be assumed that you can 1 yourself quite well in English, 2 in speaking and in writing. This book is 3 to help you to improve 4 further so that you can reach the point 5 people will say that your English is fluent— a level measured by the Cambridge Proficiency examination, for example. You will see my 6 opinion of the difficulties ahead 7 you and how you can best solve 8 in Lesson 4 of this book. But it may be helpful for me to 9 the main points of my argument here, 10 you start. In the frist place, there is 11 quite a long way to go 12 you can feel sure that your English is 13 . You have probably noticed yourself that 14 you can express your ideas in English clearly 15 , you only know one way of saying or writing them. You would like to be able to vary this a little, depending 16 the company around you or the situation you find yourself 17 , just as you would in your own language. 18 the same way while you understand your teacher perfectly, you may sometimes not 19 it so easy to follow ordinary English or American people 20 do not choose their words so 21 . One object of this book is to “expose” you 22 as many variations of modern English as 23 and help you to use them yourself in the appropriate circumstances. The second main point I want to 24 here is that becoming fluent in English does not really 25 on learning a lot of more complicared structures 26 you have studied already. Good modern English is not 27 up of long, complicated sentences. It largely depends on the correct 28 of structures and the connecting words and 29 that link sentences together. You will find some of these in the paragraphs 30 -- “that is to say,”: “for example,” “in the