Skills adaptations for the specific needs of individual institutions.

Do you need English in your studies? Then you need Progressive Skills: Listening and Speaking Level 1 Listening skills include: — waiting for definitions; — recognizing time signposts; — hearing important words; — predicting the next word from context; — understanding location. Speaking skills include: — organizing a talk; — choosing the tense; — taking turns; — giving a scientific explanation; — introducing a talk. Topics include: Education: Freshers' week, Systems of education. Psychology and sociology: Concepts, Human behaviour. Work and business: How to be a good employee, Summer jobs. Science and nature: The scientific method, Daigrams and explanations. The physical world: Geographical location, Location and physical features.

A new four-level academic course, designed to prepare students for entry into English-medium study.

Do you need English in your studies? Then you need Progressive Skills: Reading Level 1. Learn how to: — prepare to read; — deal with new words; — recognize advice and instructions; — find and use topic sentences; — look for examples; — transfer information to a table. Topics include: Education: Living and working at university. Psychology and sociology: Personality and behaviour. Work and business: Choosing a career. Science and nature: Temperature and time. The physical world: Encyclopedia research.

A new four-level academic course, designed to prepare students for entry into English-medium study.

Do you need English in your studies? Then you need Progressive Skills: Writing Level 1. Learn how to: — gather and record information; — organize information into paragraphs; — organize information into a flow chart; — use chronological markers; — refer to tables and figures; — choose between present and past. Topics include: Education: A Personal Statement. Psychology and sociology: Extroverts and introverts. Work and business: The interview process. Science and nature: A laboratory report. The physical world: Advantages and disadvantages.

A new four-level academic course, designed to prepare students for entry into English-medium study.

Do you need English in your studies? Then you need Progressive Skills: Listening and Speaking Level 2 Listening skills include: — understanding signpost language; — recognizing the organization of a lecture; — recognizing change of sub-topic; — predicting content from linking words; — note-taking: classification. Speaking skills include: — showing understanding; — showing lack of understanding; — talking about research; — taking part in a tutorial; — giving a talk with slides. Topics include: Culture and civilization: Coming of age, Festivals. Technology: Who? What? When?, Transport inventions. Arts and media: Arts and media, Advertising. Sports and leisure: Classifying sports, Sports in education. Nutrition and health: A balanced diet, Portions.

A new four-level academic course, designed to prepare students for entry into English-medium study.

Do you need English in your studies? Then you need Progressive Skills: Reading Level 2. Learn how to: — find information quickly; — predict content; — distinguish between fact and possibility. Topics include: Culture and civilization: Fireworks, horses and bulls. Technology: A brief history of space travel. Arts and media: The value of magazines. Sports and leisure: Board games. Nutrition and health: How to eat healthily.

A new four-level academic course, designed to prepare students for entry into English-medium study.

Do you need English in your studies? Then you need Progressive Skills: Writing Level 2. Learn how to: — compare events and ideas; — design a questionnaire; — record and display results; — connect ideas with and but; — use basic paragraph structure: point, explanation, example. Topics include: Culture and civilization: Celebrations. Technology: The historic moment. Arts and media: Media studies research reports. Sports and leisure: For and against. Nutrition and health: Obesity.

A new four-level academic course, designed to prepare students for entry into English-medium study.

Do you need English in your studies? Then you need Progressive Skills: Listening and Speaking Level 3 Listening skills include: — recording sources; — recognizing the main points; — understanding signpost language; — identfying and recording units of measurement; — choosing the best form for notes. Speaking skills include: — preparing for a talk; — starting and ending an extended turn; — reporting problems with research; — reacting to tutorial contributions; — talking about processes. Topics include: Remembering and forgetting: Memory, Learner styles. Friends and family: Making and keeping friends, Apologizing. Managing to be successful: Managing time and self, The time thieves. Natural cycles: Greening the desert, Oxygen and carbon. Customs: origins and effects: Cultural diversity, Wedding customs.

Do you need English in your studies? Then you need Progressive Skills: Reading Level 3. Learn how to: — recognize sentence function; — read line graphs; — distinguish between fact and theory; — understand non-text markers; — use cross referencing; — recognize the writer's point of view or bias. Topics include: Remembering and forgetting: Improving your memory. Friends and family: Parents, Adults and Children. Managing to be successful: Decisions, decisions, decisions. Natural cycles: Chains, webs and pyramids. Customs: origins and effects: The price of happiness.

Do you need English in your studies? Then you need Progressive Skills: Writing Level 3. Learn how to write: — Argument essays (write thesis statements); — Description essays (describe graphics); — Discussion essays (recognize the thesis); — For and against essays (compare with adjectives and nouns); — Research reports (write topic sentences). Topics include: Remembering and forgetting: Rehearsal and prompts. Friends and family: Decisions in families. Managing to be successful: For and against. Natural cycles: Energy and the oceans. Customs: origins and effects: Cultural change.

English Skills for University: Level 1A Combined Course Book and Workbook This combined Course Book and Workbook will help you to improve your listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, and give you the confidence to begin your university studies in English. You will learn how to: — speak with good intonation and stress, and clear pronunciation; — use key spelling and grammar rules; — give confident and interesting presentations; — develop your vocabulary (and knowledge) within 10 useful subject areas; — predict and identify key information in texts; — write accurately, using a wide range of common sentence patterns; — listen for the important points in a conversation, talk or lecture. Accompanying Teacher's Book also available.

This combined Course Book and Workbook will help you to improve your listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, and give you the confidence to begin your university studies in English. You will learn how to: — speak with good intonation and stress, and clear pronunciation; — use key spelling and grammar rules; — give confident and interesting presentations; — develop your vocabulary (and knowledge) within five useful subject areas; — predict and identify key information in texts; — write accurately, using a wide range of common sentence patterns; — listen for the important points in a conversation, talk or lecture.

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.