Developing Skills 1 - Starting-Building-Developing Skills

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.