Starting Skills In English: Reading And Writing Part A

Starting Skills in English Reading and Writing Part A Course Book Have you studied English at school? Do you need to improve your reading and writing? Then you need Starting Skills in English Reading and Writing. This course helps you read and write basic English. In Part A you learn how to read and write 200 key words in isolation and context from eight key knowledge areas. You will also learn to: * find examples; * identify key parts of speech; * identify pronoun referents; * identify topic changes; * interpret figures; * join sentences with and; * make irregular plurals; * make simple noun phrases; * mark text while reading; * prepare to read; * read encyclopedia entries; * read for an established need; * recognise job suffixes: er, or, ist, ant; * recognise past forms; * recognise vowels and consonants; * scan for capital letters, question marks and full stops; * scan for numbers; * scan for specific phrases; * scan for proper nouns; * understand captions; * use articles; * use capital letters and full stops; * use countable and uncountable nouns; * use s for plural or 3rd person singular; * use some key spelling rules; * use There is/are vs It is/They are; * use subject and object pronouns; and * use want with nouns and infinitives. This material is aimed at students with an IELTS level of 2.0. The exit level of this course is equivalent to an approximate TOEFL score of 250. Starting Skills in English Part B Reading and Writing is also available. There are linked courses in Listening and Speaking and Vocabulary and Grammar. See the Skills in English website as skillsinenglish.com for additional materials and help. Key Features * Reading texts a maximum of 250 words * Writing tasks are short paragraphs * Teacher's Book containing a full answer key, language and culture notes and methodology notes * Allows beginners immediate access to study of academic English skills * Available as three books - Listening and Speaking, Reading and Writing, Vocabulary and Grammar - at two levels * Language and culture notes available for Arabic, Chinese and Japanese learners * Ideal for false beginners, i.e., students who have now acheived their full potential in English at school Accompanying Teacher's Book, Student Test Pack and Teacher Test Booklet also available. Review: "The common-core knowledge in this series is the next big step for ELT to take in the 21st century." David Crystal "Extremely well-planned and constructed and very impressive." Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Award judges "At last a course that truly prepares students for IELTS by developing the necessary skills from the pre-intermediate level." Kevin Higgins, Professor of English, Asian University of Science and Technology, Thailand "I would thoroughly recommend this series to any centre running academic English courses." Tessa Moore, University of Nottingham "We have finally found a textbook which caters for international students at tertiary level." Sophia Michael, Intercollege, Cyprus "A very useful addition to the EAP tutor toolkit, which has received positive feedback from students too." Lezli Ataker, Nottingham Trent University "Attractively presented, with interesting topics and a number of language tasks which engage the students' interest and enhance the four language skills." Buckinghamshire Chilterns University "The topics are very interesting because they reflect today's world and what surrounds our students." Daniela Rizzuti, University of Calabria, Italy "Very appropriate for mixed-ability groups having different degrees of confidence in their English abilities." Aston University, UK "We are now using this series very successfully." Judith Sclare, EFL Unit, University of Glasgow "The single most useful tool you could buy, if you are going to invest in a resource for embedding ESOL into a mainstream Science or other study curriculum, or if you are resourcing a Language Support provision." Liverpool Community College "The topics and tasks are appropriate for all learners and the course is preparing them well for future university study." Helen Armstrong, University of Teesside Contents: Contents Book Map Introduction Starter: Education and Daily Life Theme 1: Work and Business Theme 2: Science and Nature Theme 3: The Physical World Theme 4: Culture and Civilization Theme 5: They Made Our World Theme 6: Art and Literature Theme 7: Sports and Leisure Theme 8: Nutrition and Health 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.