Progressive Skills in English (Combined Skills) 4 (B2 / Upper Intermediate) Student’s Book

Progressive Skills in English (Combined Skills) 4 (B2 / Upper Intermediate) Student’s Book

The course builds the skills required for lectures, tutorials, reading research and written assignments in English.

Listening skills include:

• note-taking, using scientific numbering

• using lecture handouts effectively

• understanding a speaker’s arguments

• understanding concessions

• recognizing start / end of digressions

Speaking skills include:

• clarifying issues in a discussion

• raising / dealing with an objection

• expressing and dealing with uncertainty

• summarizing

• referring to research

Reading skills include:

• highlighting key points

• recognizing and recording sources

• making inferences

• reacting to texts

• understanding sentence relationships

Writing skills include:

• linking sentences

• restating (avoiding plagiarism)

• supporting statements with evidence

• writing about graphs

• using lexical cohesions

Language: GB

Level: B2 Upper Intermediate

EL; ESF | 428.24

Terry Phillips, Anna Phillips – Garnet Education