Speaking 1 Teacher’s Book provides full and practical support for teachers whose classes are using Speaking 1. Speaking 1 develops oral fluency by focusing on topics that are personally relevant to students. The activities enable students to draw on their own life experience, feelings and cultural knowledge and to develop their ability to express their ideas confidently and fluently, even with pre-intermediate language skills. Speaking 1: * offers up to 100 different tasks, activities and discussion ideas, based on pictures, music, poems and questionnaires * contains 20 units, each taking an unusual and imaginative slant on familiar and unfamiliar topics * is flexible and therefore easy to integrate with a main course * is accompanied by a cassette containing an interesting range of listening material