Developing Skills in Composition: Primary Level 1 Workbook

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