Well Said Intro

by Linda Grant

Offering a lively and communicative approach for increasing pronunciation and speaking skills, Well Said Intro provides beginning to mid-intermediate students with the pronunciation and speaking tools they need to communicate in social, academic, and professional settings.

Genres: Nonfiction

228 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

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Linda Grant was born in Liverpool on 15 February 1951, the child of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants. She was educated at the Belvedere School (GDST), read English at the University of York, completed an M.A. in English at MacMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario and did further post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, where she lived from 1977 to 1984.

In 1985 she returned to Britain and became a journalist. From 1995 to 2000 she was a feature writer for the Guardian, where between 1997 and 1998 she also had a weekly column in G2. She contributed regularly to the Weekend section on subjects including the background to the use of drug Ecstasy (for which she was shortlisted for the UK Press Gazette Feature Writer of the Year Award in 1996), body modification, racism against Romanies in the Czech Republic, her own journey to Jewish Poland and to her father's birthplace and during the Kosovo War, an examination of the background to Serb nationalism.

Reviews

[Bryan Fox]

Still one of the best and most comprehensive guide to pronunciation/fluency at the phoneme, word, and sentence level. The chapters on thought groups, focus words, and stress are especially useful for higher level students who still can't get the rhythm of English down.

[Jessica]

Great textbook for advanced pronunciation. I'm using it in my Advanced Oral Presentations class this semester.