Developing Skills 1 Course Book with audio CDs

This course will help you improve your competence in English for college or university study to an upper-intermediate level.

• Listening skills include:
  – following a lecture
  – using symbols and abbreviations in notes
  – recognising 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.