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Print Price: $78.50

Format:
Paperback
234 pp.
97 photos, 6 figures, 8.5" x 11"

ISBN-13:
9780190165345

Publication date:
March 2023

Imprint: OUP Canada


Have Your Say 1

Listening and Speaking Skills and Practice Student Book, Second Edition

Irene S. McKay and Chris Lee

Have Your Say 1 is a learner-centred listening and speaking course book that provides authentic, meaningful, and engaging listening content designed to develop listening and speaking proficiency and communicative confidence.

Readership : ESL students needing to develop college-level English skills in listening, speaking, and pronunciation.

Reviews

  • "Easy to follow and covers many skills within each topic (vocabulary, grammar points, pronunciation, etc.)."
    --Tracy Crewson, Mohawk College
  • "Lots of pattern practice and scaffolding for grammar. Very practical pronunciation exercises. Builds strategies. Canadian content. Some very realistic language tasks."
    --Julie Schiller-Birch, Okanagan College
  • "Useful, relevant, interesting! Lots of variety in activities and content."
    --Tina Jensen, Equilibrium School
  • "The speaking and listening exercises are well balanced and varied."
    --James Papple, York University

1. Getting to Know You
Thinking and Talking
Listening 1A
Speaking 1
Listening 1B
Speaking 2
Listening 2
Pronunciation
Communicating in the Real World
2. All in a Day's Work
Thinking and Talking
Speaking 1
Listening 1
Listening 2
Speaking 2
Pronunciation
Communicating in the Real World
3. Easy Come, Easy Go
Thinking and Talking
Listening 1
Speaking 1
Listening 2
Speaking 2
Pronunciation
Communicating in the Real World
4. Let Me Entertain You
Thinking and Talking
Speaking 1
Listening 1
Speaking 2
Listening 2
Pronunciation
Communicating in the Real World
5. You Are What You Eat
Thinking and Talking
Speaking 1
Listening 1
Speaking 2
Listening 2
Pronunciation
Communicating in the Real World
6. Let the Good Times Roll
Thinking and Talking
Speaking 1
Listening 1
Listening 2
Speaking 2
Pronunciation
Communicating in the Real World
7. Keeping in Shape
Thinking and Talking
Speaking 1
Listening 1
Speaking 2
Listening 2
Pronunciation
Communicating in the Real World
8. Discovering Our Wonderful World
Thinking and Talking
Speaking 1
Listening 1
Speaking 2
Listening 2
Pronunciation
Communicating in the Real World

Have Your Say 1, 2e eBook
Have Your Say 1, 2e Companion Website

Irene S. McKay taught ESL at all levels in the Intensive English Program at George Brown College for over 40 years. She was also the TESL-training coordinator and taught in the TESL program at George Brown College. She has published four ESL books including the first editions of Have Your Say 1 and Have Your Say 2.

Chris Lee has been involved in the field of English language teaching for almost 30 years in a variety of capacities. Chris has authored a number of ESL books for various publishers and has worked with Oxford University Press on several projects in addition to the Have Your Say series, including the Compass and Explore series.

Have Your Say 2 - Irene S. McKay and Chris Lee
Have Your Say 3 - Frank Bieri and Alex MacGregor

Special Features

  • · Eight theme-based chapters focus on the essential skills students need to communicate successfully in social and academic interactions.
  • · Two main listening selections per chapter, including several from authentic sources, expose students to a variety of listening genres, such as a short lecture, conversations, news reports, and interviews.
  • · Listening activities help students develop crucial listening skills, such as listening for the main ideas and listening for details.
  • · Abundant speaking activities bring the classroom alive, engaging students in meaningful and practical interactions.
  • · Vocabulary development using the Oxford Phrasal Academic Lexicon (OPAL) ensures that students learn and practise the most common academic words, preparing them for the vocabulary demands of professional and academic life.
  • · Grammar Notes in each chapter help students achieve communicative accuracy and fluency.
  • · Pronunciation activities give students opportunities to practise and improve their pronunciation.
  • · Communicating in the Real World activities at the end of each chapter take the lesson beyond the classroom and give students opportunities to apply what they have learned to real-life situations.