I have a book that needs an In-design layout. It is a conversation book and I imagine that when it is all completed, it will be about 200 pages (I guess it depends on how it is layed out). This book is an adult conversation book for people learning English. If you want to see books in the same category, you can refer to Side-by-side, Let's Talk, New Interchange, etc.
I have the content for the first chapter ready (9 pages in MS word file - included below)including 4 illustrations that need to go in. There will be 20 chapters in all, when it is finished. If anyone is interested in working on this project, please let me know the following:
1. Cost of the entire layout
2. Timeline. The chapters are still being written so I need this information broken down in terms of days after I turn over the chapter that the lay-out for that chapter will be completed.
3. Cost to see the first chapter layout (as a sample)
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Jay Koo
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Sample First Chapter
A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR
IDIOMS
•Beautiful people - fashionable, trendy
•Well healed - wealthy
•Flavor of the month – trendy
•Fox – very good looking person
•Hook up - a date; perhaps for a one night relationship
•Start a tab - pay for all the drinks at the end of the night
•Pick up lines - Ways to begin a conversation with a stranger
•Wingman – a man’s friend who helps him start conversations with women
•Hook someone up – to do someone a favor
•Check someone out – look at with sexual interest
•Dude – guy
Listen to Track 1.1 on the CD.
[ambient bar noise]
Mark: Oh hey there, Tony. How’s it going? I didn’t know you worked here.
Tony: Yeah, yeah. Hey, what’s your name again?
Mark: It’s Mark—Mark Knight.
Tony: Right. Sorry about that, Mark. What can I get you?
Mark: I don’t know…how about a gin and tonic?
Tony : You got it. (pause) Here ya go…do you want to start a tab?
Mark: Sure. Thanks. How long have you been open?
Tony : Couple of weeks. This your first time in?
Mark : Yep. You’ve sure got a well healed crowd. And some good-looking women, wow!
Tony : (laughs) Yeah, we’re the flavor of the month, you know, so we get the beautiful people. Looks like you came with a purpose.
Mark: Yeah, I guess so. A buddy of mine is going to meet me here and be my wingman. Unless you can help me out. That woman over there is a fox.
Tony: Ha! Actually I do know her. She’s cool—her name is Ginger. When she buys her next drink I’ll introduce you.
Listen to CD track 1.2 and then follow the directions to complete the activity.
Introducing Yourself
[Mark’s friend arrives]
Sergio: Mark! What’s up, dude?
Mark: Nothing much. Tony here is gonna hook me up with that girl over there.
Sergio: [to Mark, distracted] Great. [to Tony] Hey, Tony, I’m Sergio. How’s it going?
Tony: Hey Sergio, good to meet you.
Sergio: Yeah, you too, man. So you’re gonna hook us up tonight?
Tony: (Laughing) Well, I don’t know if I can help you both, but I do know that girl Mark is checking out.
Exercise
A. Match the question in column A with the response in column B.
1. Is this your first time here?
2. What can I get you?
3. How long have you been open?
4. What’s your name again?
5. Do you want to start a tab?
Answers
(A) About a month.
(B) No, thanks, I’m going to give you cash.
(C) It sure is.
(D) Can I have a scotch, please?
(E) It’s James.
B. Now, in groups of two, practice entering into a bar and ordering a drink.
Answers
1. C 2. D 3. A 4. E 5. B
Listen to CD track 1.3 and then follow the directions to complete the activity.
Introducing Someone Else
[ambient bar noise]
[Ginger approaches the bar]
Ginger: Hey, Tony. Can I get another vodka cranberry?
Tony: Sure, Ginger. Hey listen, this is my friend, Mark Knight. Mark, this is Ginger. And, this is Mark’s friend Sergio. Ginger and I used to work together.
Ginger: Yeah…hi, Mark. Hi, Sergio.
Mark: Hey. Nice to meet you.
Sergio: Good to meet you, Ginger.
Ginger: Yeah, you too.
Tony (placing drink on the bar): That’ll be four dollars.
Mark: Let me get it.
Ginger: Oh, thanks, Mark, that’s so nice. So, how do you know Tony?
Sergio: I’m going to make a quick call, I’ll be right back Mark.
Mark: OK, Sergio. (to Ginger) He’s a friend of a friend. And now so are you. Cheers!
Ginger: Cheers. What’s your last name again? Knight? Like my knight in shining armor?
Mark: Well, I’d like to think so. Maybe you’ll think it was a dark and stormy night…
Ginger: That could be a good thing, too…
A. Complete the sentences below, using the dialogues as a guide.
1. _____ can I get you? _____ about a gin and tonic?
2. Sorry _____ that, Mark.
3. _____ be four dollars.
4. You _____ it.
5. _____ to meet you, Ginger.
B. Conversation
In groups of 5, practice introducing yourself to the group, then practice introducing the other members to each other.
Listen to CD track 2.4. From the conversations, complete the information about each person.
1. Hi. It’s nice to meet you. My name is Mark…Mark Knight. I was born in New York. I’ve lived here for five years and I’m a lawyer at a nonprofit.
2. Hi there. My name is Virginia Vine, but you can call me Ginger. I started a small clothing company in Austin—I design and make the clothes myself.
3. How’s it going. I’m Tony Piehl. Originally, I’m from Chicago. I love working as a bartender because I like talking to people. I’m also an artist.
4. Hey. My name is Sergio Sandoval. I’m from San Diego. I work in nonprofit development.
First Name Last Name Where From Job
Answers: Mark Knight; New York; lawyer. Virginia/Ginger Vine; Austin; clothing designer. Tony Piehl; Chicago; bartender. Sergio Sandoval; San Diego; nonprofit development.
Picking Someone Up in a Bar
Sample Pick-up Lines
• You look like a challenge.
• That looks good. What are you drinking?
• You look really familiar—do I know you from somewhere?
• Do you come here often?
• Apart from being sexy, what do you do for a living?
• I hope you know CPR, ’cos you take my breath
away.
• I’ve just moved you to the top of my ‘to do’ list.
Listen to CD track 1.5
Asking People About Themselves
[ambient bar noise]
Ginger: So, what do you do?
Mark: Well, I’m a lawyer. I work for a nonprofit. Do you hate lawyers?
Ginger: (laughs) Not all of them! Who could hate a nonprofit lawyer? What kind of nonprofit?
Mark: Oh, good. It’s a tough job to have to admit to right away. It’s a civil rights nonprofit. What do you do?
Ginger: Uh, I make and design clothes.
Mark: What do you mean—for who?
Ginger: For myself. I have my own business.
Mark: Wow! That’s impressive. Do you have employees and everything?
Ginger: No, no, it’s not as impressive as it sounds. I make small batches of clothes and sell them at fairs and markets. Mostly what I do is walk around trying to get people to come check it out.
Mark: Oh, I’m sure they’re checking it out.
Ginger: (laughs)
Mark: Say, would you like to go back to my place for a drink…I promise, just a drink, you’ll be out of there in a half an hour.
Ginger: I don’t think so.
Mark: But…
Ginger: I mean…I think I’ll be there a little longer than a half an hour.
Exercise
A. Below are excerpts from the conversation. Write in your own words what the other person’s reply is.
1. Mark: Well, I’m a lawyer. I work for a nonprofit. Do you hate lawyers?
2. Mark: What do you do?
3. Mark: What do you mean—for who?
4. Ginger: I make small batches of clothes and sell them at fairs and markets. Mostly what I do is walk around trying to get people to come check it out.
5. Mark: Say, would you like to go back to my place for a drink…I promise, just a drink, you’ll be out of there in a half an hour.
B. Now, in groups of two, practice asking about each other. After your partner tells you what their job is, make sure to ask at least one follow-up question.
Useful Phrases
• Would you like…
a drink, something to eat, to use the bathroom?
• Should we…
go somewhere quieter, to my place, get some coffee?
• May I…
help you with your coat, hold your hand, kiss you?
• Why don’t you…
Turn the radio down, pay the tab
Listen to CD track 1.6
Mark: Would you like to borrow some pajamas?
Ginger: (from the bathroom) No, why don’t you just put an extra blanket on the bed?
Mark: Sure.
Ginger: May I borrow your toothpaste?
Mark: Yeah, yeah, of course.
Pronunciation
Listen to CD track 1.7. After each question, repeat the indicated contraction as the speaker has said it.
1. [Would you like to borrow some pajamas?]
Would you…?
2. [Why don’t you put an extra blanket on the bed?]
Why don’t you…?
3. [Would you like to get some coffee?]
Would you…?
4. [Why don’t you ask for the check?]
Why don’t you…?
Chapter Quiz
1. What is Brent’s reason for going to the bar?
a. He wanted a drink.
b. He was meeting a friend.
c. He was hoping to meet a woman.
d. He was visiting his friend Tony who
works there.
2. Choose the idiom that closely means wealthy:
a. Start a tab
b. Hook up
c. Beautiful people
d. Well healed
3. All of the following topics are typically
discussed when first meeting someone in a
social situation EXCEPT:
a. Salary
b. Last name
c. Occupation
d. Hobbies
4. Which is a common way of asking someone what their job is?
a. What do you do?
b. What career are you in?
c. What do you like to do?
d. Who do you work for?
5. Mark thinks Ginger is a
a. Wingman
b. Bartender
c. Dude
d. Fox
6. Who hooks Mark up?
a. Ginger
b. Tony
c. Sergio
d. His boss
7. Choose the correct word to complete
the statement:
“Sorry ______ that.”
a. For
b. Because
c. How
d. About
8. Choose the best definition of the idiom
“pick-up line.”
a. A way to introduce yourself to the
parents of a friend
b. A way to introduce yourself to a teacher
c. A way to introduce yourself to someone
you find attractive
d. A way to introduce yourself to a new
co-worker
9. If you are checking someone out, which of these would you most likely say to them?
a. What can I get you?
b. What do you do?
c. I hope you know CPR, ’cos you take my breath away.
d. Why don’t you turn down the radio?
10. _____ like to have a drink with me?
a. Why don’t you
b. Would you
c. You
d. Should you
Chapter Quiz
A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR
ANSWERS
1 c, 2 d, 3 a, 4 a, 5 d, 6 b, 7 d, 8 c, 9 c, 10 b
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