English for Academic Purposes
Developing Skills 2
Teacher's Book
By Terry Phillips and Anna Phillips With Kevin McNicholas
|
|
Category: Starting-Building-Developing Skills Level: Upper intermediate to proficiency CEF: B2 to Low C1 IELTS: 6.0 to 6.5 Series: Starting-Building-Developing Skills |
Developing Skills 2: Teacher's Book
This course will help you improve your competence in English for college or university study to an upper-intermediate level.
In Book 2:
Listening skills include:
- features of a lecture
- distinguishing between facts and opinions
- guessing spelling
- understanding a speaker’s argument
Reading skills include:
- finding information in a sentence
- understanding the writer’s attitude
- understanding statistics, graphs and charts
- understanding technical descriptions
- identifying the main point
Speaking skills include:
- using question tags
- telling stories
- talking about inability and possibility
- expressing preferences and making suggestions
Writing skills include:
- using demonstratives
- describing graphs and charts
- joining sentences
- writing an assignment
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.
Contents
Book Map
Skills Map
Introduction
Unit 1: Society, Culture and Civilization
Unit 2: Inventions
Unit 3: Literature
Unit 4: Leisure and Tourism
Unit 5: Health and Hygiene
Revision 1
Unit 6: Ancient Civilizations
Unit 7: Advances
Unit 8: Charles Dickens
Unit 9: The Tourist Industry
Unit 10: Fitness and Disability
Revision 2
Workbook Answers
Word Lists:
Thematic
Alphabetical
Contains black and white tables and illustrations
![]() |








Email to a colleague