Progressive Skills by Garnet

Download Progressive Skills in English Reading, Writing, Listening & Speaking 2012 (PDF, MP3). Author: Terry Phillips, Anna Phillips.

Progressive Skills in English is a course that prepares students for entry into English-medium study. Progressive Skills in English teaches necessary skills as part of a systematic programme of language development. The course builds the skills required for lectures, tutorials, reading research and written assignments in English. These new separate-skill editions allow students to focus on their individual skill requirements.

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.