Building Skills for Proficiency

Building Skills for ProficiencyBuilding Skills for Proficiency is a specially designed vvorkbook containing a wide variety of exercises and tests that aim to help learners to master the English language in order to ensure their success in English proficiency examinationsThe book gives extensive coverage to the complexities of English, providing brief but relevant explanations and carefully selected examples to clarify problems about the structure of the language. İn addition, it provides tests to determine how well the learner has mastered a given structure. The book contains about 1500 test items vvhich cover ali majör grammatical patterns in English.Vocabulary skills are dealt vvith in detail with special emphasis on synonyms and correct usage. The vocabulary items are designed in such a way that the learner moves form the simple to the complex. Vocabulary exercises and vocabulary tests cover över 2750 items that are frequently encountered in academic texts.Reading comprehension, vvhich plays a crucial role in proficiency examinations, is improved systematically vvith special emphasis on basic reading skills.Features include Skimming Scanning• Recognizing Restatements• Making Inferences• Identifying Reference Signals• Choosing the best Title• Predicting• Tests for Reading ComprehensionBuilding Skills for Proficiency presents advanced grammar and advanced vocabulary needed for advanced comprehensionA detailed key to the tests and exercises is available as a separate book.