Developing Skills 1 (B1+ / Intermediate) 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.
Language: GB
Level: B1+ Intermediate
EL; ESF | 428.24
Terry Phillips, Anna Phillips, Chris Gough, D’Arcy Adrian-Vallance – Garnet Education