"Upper-intermediate to Advanced.
Study Speaking is for students who need to speak English in connection with their academic work. It is intended primarily for use on language programmes preparing learners of English for study at university or college.
The course is designed to improve students' speaking skills by:
- Activating and extending their linguistic competence
- Increasing their confidence in using spoken English
- Developing their ability to analyse and evaluate spoken performance
- Sharpening their strategic competence in face-to-face interaction.
Presentation tasks that practise skills required in the IELTS Interview 'long turn' are highlighted in the course.
The Second Edition has been comprehensively revised, restructured and extended with these new features:
- Separable strands of discussion skills and presentation skills
- Checklists of points for action in presentations
- A wider variety of feedback on tasks
- A fuller teacher's guide at the back of the book.
- The Audio CD contains sample scenario performances and listening materials for presentation skills.
Tracks 1-9: units 1-8 and sample scenarios 39 minutes."