Reading and Writing

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.