Developing Skills 2: Course Book This course will help you improve your competence in English for college or university study to an upper-intermediate level. In Book 2: Listening skills include: features of a lecture distinguishing between facts and opinions guessing spelling understanding a speaker's argument Reading skills include: finding information in a sentence understanding the writer's attitude understanding statistics, graphs and charts understanding technical descriptions identifying the main point Speaking skills include: using question tags telling stories talking about inability and possibility expressing preferences and making suggestions Writing skills include: using demonstratives describing graphs and charts joining sentences writing an assignment Starting Skills Books 1 and 2 with Building Skills Books 1 and 2 and Developing Skills Books 1 and 2 form a six-level course for higher education studies in English which will take you from Starter to Upper Intermediate. Accompanying Workbook and Teacher's Book also available.