Konverzační příručka obsahuje dialogy tematicky spjaté s každodenním životem. Kromě cvičení rázu čistě komunikativního zahrnuje i cvičení morfologicko-syntaktická a lexikální. Slovníček zachycuje méně běžné výrazy a slovní spojenía podává vesměs aktualizovaný význam. K překladům do angličtiny a některým dalším typům cvičení byl sestaven klíč..
1. FAMILY LIFE // L Children; question-tags; negative forms of adjectives... 9 // 2. Getting Married. Married Life; question-tags; turn out to be; prepositions and adverbial particles ...16 // 3. Gossip; articles, prepositions and adverbial particles; negative forms of adjectives 27 // II. RUNNING A HOUSE // 1. Spring-cleaning; needn’t have, didn’t need to; make, do; articles; tenses; prepositions and adverbial particles...36 // 2. Moving House; see (to it) that; or so, or something, etc.; thing, stuff, affair, place, job...45 // 3. Views on Cooking; prepositions and adverbial particles; verbs denoting change of state or quality (become, come, fall, get, go, grow, run, turn, wear) ... 58 // 4. Getting Ready...67 // 5. Being Late; meanings of time...69 // 6. Sharing Responsibilities; wish-clauses; prepositions and adverbial particles . . 74 // 7. The Family Budget; prepositions and adverbial particles; price, prize; make, do 81 // 8. Shopping; articles; at least; prepositions and adverbial particles...85 // III. WORK, RELAXATION AND RECREATION // 1. On Education; go comprehensive (decimal, etc.); ability, capability, aptitude, capacity, knack; one way and another; might (just) as well...92 // 2. Applying for a Job; expressing disbelief, doubt, caution; too, besides, moreover, at that, on top of it, into the bargain; (as simple) as all that; position of adverbs 103 // 3. Science and Technology; beside — besides; interrupt — interfere; admittance — admission; various uses of but; phrasal verbs — take...110 // 4. Health and Illness; form of adverbs; articles; prepositions; indirect speech; // tenses; sick, ill...118 // 5. Man and the Environment; modal verbs; various ways of expressing future; phrasal verbs — put...135 //
6. Running a Car; causative have; do, make; indirect speech; equivalents of the Czech verb mazat; still, yet; rather, fairly; prepositions and adverbial particles; tenses ...144 // 7. An Accident; prepositions and adverbial particles...158 // 8. Sports and Games; phraseology; verbs of motion; emphasis; prepositions . . . 165 // 9. Physical Fitness; question-tags; prepositions; prepositional phrases ... 170 // IV. SOCIAL EVENTS // 1. Red-letter Days; and all that; the (event) of the year, the (surprise) of my life, // etc.; the thing is (that); now I come to think of it, if it comes to that . . . . 177 // 2. Entertainments; proverbs; phrasal verbs instead of one-word equivalents; prefixes; prepositions; phrasal verbs — do...185 // 3. A Visit; mind (noun and verb); inversion; prepositions; phrasal verbs — go . . 197 // 4. Going to Parties; expressing joy; old as I am; hard as they tried, etc.; altogether, on the whole, in general, if any, at all, etc.; prepositions...205 // 5. Writing Letters; I wonder; by; concrete, particular, definite, actual; dispose (of) 213 // V. TRAVELLING // 1. Planning One’s Holiday; infinitive; pick out, pick up; phrasal verbs — get . . 219 // 2. Packing. Ladies’ Fashions; proof as a suffix; causative have and get; like; prepositions and adverbial particles...225 // 3. A Man’s Point of View; articles; smart; prepositions and adverbial particles; inversion after some adverbs...234 // 4. Losing One’s Way; expressing disbelief, surprise, displeasure; expressing understanding and pleasure; emphatic statements; prepositions...240 // 5. Sightseeing in London; rf-clauses ; phrasal verbs — make, do...246 // 6. International Meetings; for; as (a relative pronoun); word-order (functional sentence perspective) ; equivalents of Czech adverbs ; prepositions...256 //
7. On the English; Czech-English interference (actually, eventually, etc.) ; interjections and ‘delay words’; vagueness (this and that, now and again, etc.); metaphors...264 // Literature...272 // KEY TO THE EXERCISES