ENGLISH SPEAKING

You may be involved in speaking English in a wide range of situations: chatting with friends, buying things in shops, asking directions in the street, discussing a problem in a tutorial, consulting a supervisor, giving a seminar presentation, and so on. To speak effectively in another language we need a variety of ‘’tools’. We will be exploring some of them in this unit and suggesting ways in which you can practise and improve using them in English. Tools for speaking Conversation is a complex activity, even in our first language, and can cause difficulties for either speaker or listener: (1) As a speaker you may not remember the exact word or expression for what you want to say. In this case, you need to adopt one of a set of communication strategies, which involve