Starting Skills

Starting Skills 1: Workbook A new course in the Starting Skills in English series, combining all skills from Part A into one volume. Now with extra material in the form of a Workbook. Have you studied English at school? Do you need to improve your competence in English? Then you need Starting Skills. This course will help you improve your competence in the basic skills of English for college or university study. In Starting Skills Book 1 you will learn 200 key words from ten knowledge areas. You will also learn to: * define and describe objects * identify key factual information * predict information in a talk * talk about charts and graphs * discuss key facts in the past * identify key parts of speech * read factual information and encyclopedia entries * write accurately using basic sentence patterns * use key spelling rules Starting Skills Books 1 and 2 with Building Skills 1 and 2 and Developing Skills 1 and 2 form a five-level course for higher education studies in English which will take you from Starter to Advanced. Accompanying Course Book and Teacher's Book also available.