Publisher's Synopsis
Developing Skills 1: Course Book
This course will help you improve your competence in English for college or university study to an upper-intermediate level.
In Book 1:
Listening skills include:
- following a lecture
- using symbols and abbreviations in notes
- recognizing signposts and digressions
- understanding and noting the main points
Reading skills include:
- confirming precise meaning
- extracting relevant information from case studies
- looking for evidence
- narrative descriptions
- finding the main information in active and passive sentences
Speaking skills include:
- describing similarity and difference
- discussing case studies
- comparing more than two things
- exchanging information
- reporting on research
Writing skills include:
- concluding opinions
- joining sentences
- using the passive to describe a process
- discursive essays, reviews, instructions, e-mails, ‘how to’ texts
Starting Skills Books 1 and 2 with Building Skills Books 1 and 2 and Developing Skills Books 1 and 2 form a six-level course for higher education studies in English which will take you from Starter to Upper Intermediate.
Accompanying Workbook and Teacher's Book also available.
