Better Speaking: Guide to Improving Your Spoken English (BBC World Service)

This booklet is designed to help you overcome some of the most common problems which people face when they are learning to speak English. Using extracts from the BBC World Service radio series, Better Speaking, we look at how you can become a more fluent speaker of English, and at some of the skills you need for effective communication.The topics we look at include:

• Becoming a confident speaker
• Fluency or accuracy?
• Finding the right words
• Learning language in chunks
• Showing where you are going
• Keeping the listener interested
• Being a supportive listener
• Sounding natural