IntroductionWelcome to Your Turn to Speak. This is a perfect book for adult learners whose English proficiency is at the elementary stage to improve their oral communication abilities and confidence in speaking English. Your Turn to Speak aims at helping learners to become effective users of high frequency/situational language pertaining to their life experiences. Users of this book will be able to apply the selected vocabulary words and master speaking skills with references to the corpus “Oxford 3000” and CEFR A1 and A2 Levels.Your Turn to Speak is competence-oriented and organized spirally, from easy to more challenging practices wherein vocabulary words and sentence patterns are recycled. In each of the 12 units, learners will develop learning skills, think critically, learn vocabulary and sentence patterns collaboratively, duplicate conversations, speak with confidence, and master real-life skills. Here is what each unit contains:Skill focus – Each unit presents one learning skill
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