Developing Skills 1 Course Book+cds(4)

Description: 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 Workbook and Teacher’s Book also available.

Contents :

Book Map
Skills Map
Introduction
Unit 1: Theories in Education
Unit 2: Nature or Nurture?
Unit 3: Motivation and Management
Unit 4: Weather Forecasting and Temperature Control
Unit 5: Geology and Geography
Revision 1
Unit 6: Teaching and Learning
Unit 7: Growing Up, Making Decisions
Unit 8: Job Satisfaction
Unit 9: Dealing with the Weather
Unit 10: Natural Resources
Revision 2
Resources Section
Tapescript
Word Lists:
Thematic
Alphabetical

Author Biography: Terry Phillips has worked in ELT for more than 35 years as a teacher, teaching supervisor, manager and language school owner. As a consultant, he has worked in more than 20 countries in all parts of the world, advising state and private language institutions on all aspects of school management. For the last ten years, he has been a full time freelance writer with his wife Anna, producing more than 160 published books in ELT. Although he and Anna have worked for all the major publishers, all recent works have been for Garnet Education, including the multi-level EAP course, Skills in English. The course was highly commended in The Duke of Edinburgh's English Speaking Union Award for 2004. It is taught in a large number of universities in the UK and around the world. Terry and Anna are currently working on New Skills in English, a fully revised and updated version of the course. Terry is also the series editor of the new English for Specific Academic Purposes series for Garnet Education, which aims to prepare students to entry into a particular faculty for English-medium tertiary education. The series recently won the ESU award. Anna Phillips has worked in ELT for more than 30 years. She has worked as a teacher of both multilingual and monolingual classes, with teenagers and adults, in both the UK and abroad. Anna began writing materials for special courses as a senior teacher working for the British Council in Oman. Later, as Director of Studies and Owner-Manager of the International House school in Oman, she spent much of her time adapting and developing materials, owing to the lack of suitable course books for the needs of the students. During this period Anna was also extensively involved in teacher training, both in-service and also for CELTA and DELTA. She was also an examiner for CELTA and travelled extensively throughout the Gulf region in this role. In 1989 Anna completed her MA (TEFL) from Reading University. Since returning to the UK, Anna has worked with Terry Phillips on a large number of textbooks for a variety of publishers. Most recently, she and Terry have been working on the Skills in English series. Anna's particular interest is making course books more 'user friendly' for teachers who are not native speakers of English, and so she has been very much involved in developing resources for the teachers using the UAE version of Skills in English. Anna is currently working on New Skills in English, a completely revised and extended version of the current series. Chris Gough has taught in the UK and Spain and was involved in teacher training in the UK for a number of years. He now spends all his time writing materials, though he still regularly moderates training courses for Trinity. Chris has written titles for various publishers including supplementary vocabulary and reading resources. He has been writing with Garnet for nearly two years. He lives in Brighton with his wife, Gerry and daughter, Isobel.