English for Academic Purposes
Skills in English: Speaking Level 3
Student Test Pack (Pack of 10 Booklets)
By Terry Phillips and Anna Phillips
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Duke of Edinburgh English-Speaking Union English Language Award - 2004
Category: English for Academic Purposes Level: Upper intermediate CEF: B2 IELTS: 5.0 to 6.0 Series: Skills in English |
Contents
Theme 1: Education, It's Not My Style
Theme 2: Daily Life, Are You a Maximizer or a Satisficer?
Theme 3: Work and Business, The Person and the Problem
Theme 4: Science and Nature, Adapting to the Climate
Theme 5: The Physical World, Do You Know Your Region?
Theme 6: Culture and Civilization, That's Terrible!
Theme 7: They Made Our World, Liquid Crystals
Theme 8: Art and Literature, Sindbad the Sailor
Theme 9: Sports and Leisure, Where Shall We Go?
Theme 10: Nutrition and Health, More Truths and Myths
"The common-core knowledge in this series is the next big step for ELT to take in the 21st century."
- David Crystal"Extremely well-planned and constructed and very impressive."
- Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Award judges"At last a course that truly prepares students for IELTS by developing the necessary skills from the pre-intermediate level."
- Kevin Higgins, Professor of English, Asian University of Science and Technology, Thailand"Skills in English has formed the backbone of our 2008 Intensive English Course and I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a skills-based course with an academic focus."
- Gabriel Roberts, University of Wales in Cardiff"I would thoroughly recommend this series to any centre running academic English courses."
- Tessa Moore, University of Nottingham"We have finally found a textbook which caters for international students at tertiary level."
- Sophia Michael, Intercollege, Cyprus"A very useful addition to the EAP tutor toolkit, which has received positive feedback from students too."
- Lezli Ataker, Nottingham Trent University"Attractively presented, with interesting topics and a number of language tasks which engage the students' interest and enhance the four language skills."
- Buckinghamshire Chilterns University"The topics are very interesting because they reflect today's world and what surrounds our students."
- Daniela Rizzuti, University of Calabria, Italy"Very appropriate for mixed-ability groups having different degrees of confidence in their English abilities."
- Aston University, UK"We are now using this series very successfully."
- Judith Sclare, EFL Unit, University of Glasgow"The single most useful tool you could buy, if you are going to invest in a resource for embedding ESOL into a mainstream Science or other study curriculum, or is you are resourcing a Language Support provision."
- Liverpool Community College"The topics and tasks are appropriate for all learners and the course is preparing them well for future university study."
- Helen Armstrong, University of Teesside![]() |






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