SkillsWork is an exciting book for teachers and students who want to focus on skills
development at intermediate level and beyond. SkillsWork can be used alongside a standard
coursebook or on its own ideal if you want to teach away from the coursebook for part of the
day or week. SkillsWork provides forty interesting lessons of integrated skills work with each
unit having a focus skill while also linking in to practice all four skills in each and every
lesson. SkillsWork provides endless opportunities to extend and practice the students' lexical
range using both active and passive vocabulary. It provides work on collocations phrasal
verbs word building idioms and register. SkillsWork is made up of a variety of task types
from full class discussion to individual homework giving students the opportunity to learn and
use new language in a variety of ways. SkillsWork provides practice in writing and speaking
tasks required of students in life work and exams letter writing reviews emails reports
complaints planning comparing discussing objecting etc. SkillsWork is lively and motivating
with a range of engaging and relevant topics that include: - Life in the fast lane - Junk
culture - Shopped out - Reader I married him - Have your say
