Full Description
Designed to increase confidence, help you identify and develop different skill areas, recognise different question types, reflect on progress and manage test anxiety. Activities encourage you to apply your skills and answer effectively. The digital resource includes over 100 auto-marked multiple-choice and flip card questions. This text has not been through the endorsement process for the Cambridge Pathway. Any references or materials related to answers, grades, papers or examinations are based on the opinion of the author(s). The Cambridge International Education syllabus or curriculum framework associated assessment guidance material and specimen papers should always be referred to for definitive guidance.
Contents
How to use this series; How to use this book; Exam skills; PART 1: READING; Unit 1: Reading skills and strategies; 1.1 An introduction to reading skills; 1.2 Reading strategies; 1.3 Types of text; Unit 2: Reading for comprehension; 2.1 Focusing on vocabulary; 2.2 Putting reading strategies into practice; 2.3 Using your own words; 2.4 Explicit and implicit meaning; Exam practice 1; Unit 3: Summary writing; 3.1 Reading for ideas; 3.2 Remodelling the text; 3.3 Developing a coherent summary; Exam practice 2; Unit 4: Analysing and explaining writers' effects; 4.1 Understanding meaning and effects; 4.2 Language chosen for deliberate effect; 4.3 Exploring figurative language; 4.4 Explaining how writers achieve effects and influence readers; Unit 5: Extended response to reading; 5.1 Conventions of text types; 3.2 Remodelling the text; 3.3 Developing a coherent summary; Exam practice 2; Unit 4: Analysing and explaining writers' effects; 4.1 Understanding meaning and effects; 4.2 Language chosen for deliberate effect; 4.3 Exploring figurative language; 4.4 Explaining how writers achieve effects and influence readers; Unit 5: Extended response to reading; 5.1 Conventions of text types; 5.2 Evaluating and using ideas from a text; 5.3 Developing ideas; Exam practice 3; PART 2: WRITING; Unit 7: Writing skills; 7.1 Content and style; 7.2 Text structures; 7.3 Word and sentence choices; Unit 8: Directed writing; 8.1 Evaluating views; 8.2 Responding to a task; 8.3 Presenting your views; 8.4 Writing letters and reports; 8.5 Writing a speech; Exam practice 4; Unit 9: Descriptive writing; 9.1 Describing places; 9.2 Describing details; 9.3 Using the senses; 9.4 Describing events; 9.5 Describing people; 9.6 Improving descriptive writing; Unit 10: Narrative writing; 10.1 Story elements and ideas; 10.2 Story openings; 10.3 Characterisation; 10.4 Improving narrative structure; 10.5 Refining your storytelling; 10.6 Endings; Exam practice 5.
