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 Course Book and Workbook also available.
