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.