Building Skills 1 Workbook with audio CDs

A skills course providing immediate access for false beginners to study academic skills.

Have you studied English at school? Do you need to improve your competence in English? Then you need Starting Skills.

This course will help you improve your competence in the basic skills of English for college or university study.

Listening skills include:
– predicting what comes next
– understanding spoken spellings and definitions
– following instructions
– identifying names
– identifying important words

Speaking skills include:
– asking about meaning and pronunciation
– checking sounds in a dictionary
– giving personal information
– expressing likes and dislikes requesting, accepting and rejecting help

Reading skills include:
– predicting content from illustrations, subheadings and topic
– sentences word attack skills
– locating information
– transferring information

Writing skills include:
– ordering information referring describing habits and routines, location and places

Starting Skills Books 1 and 2 with Building Skills 1 and 2 and Developing Skills 1 and 2 form a six-level course for higher education studies in English which will take you from Starter to Advanced.

Accompanying Course Book and Teacher’s Book also available.