Developing Skills 1
Course Book with audio CDs

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.

Contents

Book Map
Skills Map
Introduction
Unit 1: Theories in Education
Unit 2: Nature or Nurture?
Unit 3: Motivation and Management
Unit 4: Weather Forecasting and Temperature Control
Unit 5: Geology and Geography
Revision 1
Unit 6: Teaching and Learning
Unit 7: Growing Up, Making Decisions
Unit 8: Job Satisfaction
Unit 9: Dealing with the Weather
Unit 10: Natural Resources
Revision 2
Resources Section
Tapescript
Word Lists:
Thematic
Alphabetical