ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH is tailored to meet the needs of Secondary school students, KCSE candidates in English paper 101/1, teachers, and other general users of English as a second language. Writers, and Public speakers will find it particularly helpful. It covers a wide range of topics including pronunciation, sounds, spelling, homophones, Puns and Tongue twisters, Riddles, Poetry, Communication, and Functional writing, with excellent samples in line with the current syllabus. The book includes well researched detail in each section, rare in many other textbooks.