ADRIAN VALLANCE D ARCY

Pre-reading tasks introduce students to the unit topic *Comprehension tasks check general and detailed understanding *Includes step-by-step teacher's notes and answer key

Developing Skills 1: 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. Accompanying Workbook and Teacher''s Book also available.

D'Arcy Adrian-VallanceDo you want to understand and use more idioms in English? With over 130 of the most common idioms used in English today, this guide will help you use idioms to talk about many things, including: friends and family; work and business; dating and romance; thinking and learning, and much more.

An introduction to the people Britain. This hour long video takes students from the north of Scotland to Devon and Cornwall parts of Britain studies.