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.

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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.

"The speaking and listening exercises are well balanced and varied." --James Papple, York University

"Useful, relevant, interesting! Lots of variety in activities and content." --Tina Jensen, Equilibrium School

"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

"Easy to follow and covers many skills within each topic (vocabulary, grammar points, pronunciation, etc.)." --Tracy Crewson, Mohawk College