Developing Skills 1: 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 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 Course Book and Workbook also available.