Speaking Textbooks

Speaking: Textbook Recommendations. ESLgold also recommends the game, Roll Play, for conversation topics.

Books recommended by teachers and students from around the world.

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Paperback From $27.62 Interchange Fourth Edition is a fully revised edition of Interchange, the world’s most successful series for adult and young-adult learners of North American English. The course has been revised to reflect the most recent approaches to language teaching and learning.	Paperback From $0.01 The English KnowHow series draws upon the experience, opinions, and aims that students bring to class and provides them with balanced coverage of all four skills.	Paperback from $2.57  Sarah Cunningham; Peter Moor (Author) › Visit Amazon’s Sarah Cunningham; Peter Moor Page
Paperback from $53.45 First Impact! (Coursebook by Rod Ellis, Marc Helgesen, Charles Browne, Greta Gorsuch and Jerome Schwab	Paperback from $31.26 Nice Talking with You is a two-level oral communication series designed to get students talking. Nice Talking with You Level 1 is designed for false beginner students. It contains 12 topic-based units and two review units. Topics include Shopping, Music, Travel, Free time, and Work.	Paperback from $6.94 English Is Fun: An Esol Program for Beginners Paperback – June, 2001 by Gail Stein
Paperback from $0.01 Speak Up is a comprehensive two level oral/aural skills program for beginning and high beginning ESL/FL students. Book 1 is designed for beginning level students. It presents engaging and relevant contexts that provide students ample opportunity to develop their pronunciation, listening comprehension, and speaking skills.	Paperback from $11.95 Smart Choice is a complete four-skills course with a special focus on conversation. With its straightforward approach, the series requires minimal preparation, while allowing plenty of opportunity for supplementation. Each page of Smart Choice offers a self-contained lesson, focusing on a particular skill, and closes with a discussion activity.	Paperback from $51.60 “…combines communicative approaches to learning English with structural ones …. suitable for high school and adult learners who possess basic literacy in their first language.”–p. [4] of cover.
Paperback from $36.27 World Link is National Geographic Learning’s best-selling core series for young adult/adult learners of English from the false beginner to high intermediate level. The second edition has been completely updated and enhanced to reflect modern teaching methods and user feedback.

Paperback from $25.69 Pathways is National Geographic Learning’s new five-level academic skills seriesthat features reading & writing and listening & speaking strands to help learners develop the language skills needed to achieve academic success.	Paperback from $5.00 The English KnowHow series draws upon the experience, opinions, and aims that students bring to class and provides them with balanced coverage of all four skills.	Paperback from $1.14 Basics in Speaking by Michael Rost (Author)
Paperback from $0.01 Interchange is a three-level course for learners of English as a foreign language. Written in American English, Interchange reflects the fact that English is a language of international communication.	Paperback from $14.76 Expressways, by Steven J. Molinsky and Bill Bliss, is a complete four-level course that features all-skills language practice. The series incorporates cooperative learning, critical thinking, problem solving, role-playing, cross-cultural discussions, self-assessment, and community activities to promote an interactive, student-centered learning experience.	Paperback from $2.98 The Impact coursebook series “Impact Intro, First Impact and High Impact” comprise a comprehensive communicative course series, taking students from beginner to intermediate level. Step-by-step conversation building, information and opinion-gap activities, lively listening tasks, vocabulary-building tasks, interactive reading, and more all add up to a motivating and practical series for your students.
Paperback from $10.79 Touchstone, together with Viewpoint, is a six-level English program based on research from the Cambridge English Corpus. Touchstone Second Edition Workbook, Level 1 provides practice of the language studied in the Student’s Book. Activities can be used for homework or in class.	Paperback from $19.96 Let’s Talk 1, Second Edition, is for students at the high-beginning/low-intermediate level. Features of the Student’s Book include more systematic presentation and recycling of structures and vocabulary, an increased focus on communication activities, and new Expansion review sections after every four units.	Paperback from $3.99 This title presents a speaking and listening course for adults and young adults to develop conversational fluency.
Paperback from $7.00 New Cutting Edge: Pre-intermediate: Student’s Book: Pre-intermediate with Mini-d Paperback – Import, 2005 by Sarah Cunningham; Peter Moor	Paperback from $27.86 Smart Choice makes teaching easier for you. It’s flexible. You can teach lessons exactly as they are, straight off the page. Or you can adapt activities using the Click and Change CD-ROM from the Teacher’s Resource Book.	Paperback from $46.00 Nice Talking with You is a two-level oral communication series designed to get students talking. Nice Talking with You Level 2 is designed for elementary and pre-intermediate students. It contains 12 topic-based units and two review units.
Paperback from $0.01 Speak Up is a comprehensive two-level oral/aural skills program for beginning and high beginning ESL or FL students. Book 2 is designed for high beginners. The text presents engaging and relevant contexts that provide students ample opportunity to develop their pronunciation, listening comprehension, and speaking skills.	Paperback from $27.86 World Link is National Geographic Learning’s best-selling core series for young adult/adult learners of English from the false beginner to high intermediate level. The second edition has been completely updated and enhanced to reflect modern teaching methods and user feedback.	Paperback from $11.52 Presents an inviting approach to developing conversation fluency. This book presents picture dictionary-type pages, along with conversation and grammar practice, that provide students with the vocabulary and speaking skills they need for everyday life. For intermediate ESL learners.
Paperback from $22.92 English Firsthand 1 with Audio CD: New Gold Edition (2nd Edition) 2nd Edition by Marc Helgesen (Author), Steven Brown (Author), Thomas Mandeville (Author), Michael Rost (Author)