New Skills in English: Level 2 Course Book by Terry Phillips, Anna Phillips

Do you need English in your studies? Then you need the New Skills in English Course
The course builds the skills required for lectures, tutorials, reading research and written assignments in English.

Listening skills include:
• recording sources
• understanding signpost language
• choosing the best form for notes
• understanding arguments / concessions
• recognizing digressions
• using lecture handouts effectively

Speaking skills include:
• preparing for a talk
• talking about processes
• clarifying issues in a discussion
• summarizing
• referring to research
• raising / dealing with an objection
• reporting problems with research

Reading skills include:
• distinguishing between fact and theory
• understanding non-text markers
• highlighting key points
• making inferences
• reacting to texts
• recognizing the writer’s point of view or bias

Writing skills include:
• research reports, Argument / For and against / Description / Discussion essays
• restating (avoiding plagiarism)
• supporting statements with evidence
• writing about graphs
• using lexical cohesions