Marian Slee

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The course consists of Books 1 (syllabus Modules 1-3) and 2 (Modules 3-5) to provide teachers and students with ample additional material to tackle the teaching and learning philosophy of the CCSLC English syllabus. Each book comes with a CD that contains a series of multiple choice questions to prepare students for the exam.

Skills in English is a lively, stimulating full-colour resource designed to develop the skills that students need to improve their performance in English and enable them to achieve their full potential at Key Stage 3 and beyond. Skills in English offers full coverage of the National Curriculum and objectives of the Framework for Teaching English Years 7-9, year by year, and provides a wide range of exciting fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction and media texts. Structured, differentiated activities and end of section assignments to help with assessment and target setting are included. Each Skills in English student book has an accompanying interactive Student CD-ROM so that students' ICT skills are fully developed within the context of English.

The Skills in English series is designed to cover all the National Curriculum requirements using a wide range of texts. The student book focuses on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. It provides differentiated activities that integrate word, sentence and text-level objectives.