A speaking workbook built around situations rather than grammar rules, with downloadable audio for every dialogue in the book.

Written for one specific person

Someone who reads English comfortably, understands it when they hear it, and then freezes when they have to produce it out loud.

That gap is not a knowledge problem and it does not close by learning more grammar. It closes by speaking — badly, many times, in low-stakes situations — until the sentence arrives before the translation does.

Organised by situation

Every unit is a situation you will actually be in:

• Introducing yourself

• Asking for something, and giving directions

• Disagreeing politely, and apologising

• Explaining a problem

• Making a request of someone senior to you

• Handling a phone call

• Managing an interview question you were not expecting

Which is what makes the phrases stick.

How each unit works

1. A short model dialogue

2. The phrases that carry it, isolated

3. Open-ended drills where you supply your own answer aloud before checking a suggested one

The drills are open-ended rather than fill-in-the-blank on purpose: a blank with one correct answer trains recall, and what you need to train is production.

Grammar arrives in speaking order

Deliberately not the order a textbook teaches it. You meet the present perfect early because you cannot describe your own experience without it, and conditionals late because you can hold most everyday conversations without them.

Audio at natural speed

Every dialogue is recorded at conversational speed, not the slow over-articulated delivery of most language recordings. Natural speed is initially harder and that is the entire point — you need to hear where stress falls, where a fluent speaker pauses, and which words get swallowed, because that is what a real conversation sounds like.

Work it aloud

This is not a book you can complete silently on a bus. A student who works through it reading in their head will finish having gained almost nothing.

Speak every drill out loud, even alone in a room, and especially when it feels ridiculous. The embarrassment of speaking to an empty room is the cheapest form of practice available.

A reasonable pace is two units a week with revisiting. Repetition matters more than coverage here — going back through a unit a week later does more for you than moving on. The book is designed to be worked twice.

One honest limitation

A workbook cannot give you a conversation partner, and that is the thing you ultimately need. This will build your phrase stock, your listening accuracy and your confidence to open your mouth — but at some point you have to speak to a human being who answers unpredictably. Use it as preparation for that, not a replacement.

Delivery and returns

• Dhaka — 2 working days

• Elsewhere in Bangladesh — 3–5 working days

• A tracking number is sent by SMS on dispatch

• Cash on delivery available in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet

The audio downloads from your Bikiron account and access does not expire. Unused workbooks can be returned within 7 days; printing defects are replaced at our cost.