口语是一种利用语言表达思想、进行口头交际的能力。《高等学校英语专业基础阶段英语教学大纲》要求加强培养及培训学生语言知识的转换能力。意思是学生通过读和听获得知识、信息和语言，经过思维，在原有知识及语言的基础上对所获得的内容和语言加工和重组，赋予新的内容，然后输出，从而完成交际的全过程。
   《英语口语教程》（Oral Workshop）问世于20世纪90年代初，是由北京外国语大学吴祯福教授主持编写，也是目前我国英语教学界具有相当的影响力的一套教材，至今已经累计销售数百万册。这套优秀的教材哺育了一届又一届的英语学习者，为我们国家的改革开放培养了大量的英语专业人才，成为国内主要高等学校英语专业的指定口语教材。实践证明，这是一套非常富有生命力的教材。

初级口语教程

高级口语教程

• Never Give up the Hope of Living

  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...

• Isn't It Good to Speak a Foreign Language?

  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...

• Thieves Beware : People See You

  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...

• Do You Know Your Own Character?

  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...

• Thoughts on the Spring Festival

  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...

• Who Did It?

  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...

• The Voices of Time

  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...

• The Perfect Match

  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...

• Is It an Ideal Career?

  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...

• There Are Two Sides to Everything

  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...

• Don't They Feel Ashamed of Themselves?

  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...

• Want to Kill Yourself ?

  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...

• All For a Son

  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...

• Tell Us About Your Hobbies

  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...

• Why Are They So Unlucky?