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| OXFORD Series Editors: Liz and John SoarsHeadway
Academic Skills
Reading, Writing, and Study Skills
Student’s Book
Sarah Philpot and Lesley Curnick
Series Editors: Liz and John Soars
OXFORDCONTENTS
11 Meeting people
READING New people pi-5
Surveying surveying afext fo find out what i about
RULES Prevent Simple (1) the Present Simple with be and other verbs
KEY LANGUAGE Theabhibet_ ps
‘The alphabet consonants and vowels
2 Countries
READING Moura seas and ves _pl0-11
Predicting using pictures and the title to predict the subject of text
RULES there t/there are
3 Your studies
READING very doy pl6—17
Skimming reading a text quickly for general meaning
KEY LANGUAGE Tine ps
RULES Prepositions ef time in/at/on
4 Where we werk
READING Were dothy work? 22-28
nding portant word ag Inport words questons to hep find
topoalon a et
Scaling reading xt uk to fed spel formation
5 Signs and instructions
READING Sigs an interatoal guage p28-29
‘Understanding text REVEW of Std Sls
6 Health and medicine
RIDING enden03-35
Understanding pronours snderstanding pronoun referencing ina text
tes Pat Spl regular legs ps spl forms
7 The history of transport
READING Inport ft is p40—41
Making note (1) looking for important words, names, numbers and dates
KEY LANGUAGE Orda cunbes pi?
Onna numbers recogning ordinal mumbers
Dates ring dates iret ye
8 Doing business
READING The busnessof port pa6-a7
Making notes (2) making notes under diferent headings
9 Water
READING Using water 52-53
Understanding tables and charts (1) using tables and bar charts to help you
tnderstand a text
Understanding tables and chs
‘against information ina tex!
ts (2) checking numbers in a table or bar chart
10 Ambition and success
READING Grit ideas
‘Understanding the organiza
what a text i about
ofa text sing pie sentences to help understand
WRITING lnteditine p7
ULES Atser and at
Punctuation (1) capital eters
CChesking your iting) checking for mistake with
aetoel eh sateen
WRITING My county 12-13.
Linking ideas (1) and and but
Panetwation (2) sing commas in ists
WRITING Yourday_p9
Weng semenes wring serene wth a seject, ver,
(Checking your writing (2) checking fr spelling mistakes
WRITING good place to work 24-25,
Linking ideas (2) because
WRITING forms 30-31
Completing aform reading instructions careful,
‘completing a form correcty
‘WRITING Medical dicoveies p36-37
Avoiding repetition using pronouns fo avoid repetition in
‘WRITING Tans ps3
‘Writing fom notes. ordering nots to include points in
Taga onder . es
‘WRITING Folteemais ps1
Writing polite emails using polite phrases in eras
WRITING Mor orles 55-56
Describing statistics. describing statistics using phrases to
‘compare amounts
WRITING Success p60-61
Writing paragraph using atopic sentence, organizing
ngrmaton agen pararaph
‘Checking your writing (3) shecking grammar, speling, and
‘nctuation ina test
WORD UST pit PHONETIC SYMBOLS p71