Includes an access code to a comprehensive digital component, Digibook.

''Every student needs top class reading and writing skills to succeed at an academic level. Skillful focuses on theses two skills to give presentation, instant practice and complete immersion in those language skills. It offers students the opportunity to develop language skills by presenting them with ideas from today's world, while building critical thinking skills that are vital for academic success.

This is taken even further with a focus on study skills, providing students with practical guidance and support, and building confidence for independent learning throughout their university career.'' (Book Cover)

CONTENTS:

U1 GATHERING Reading text: Are online “friends” a threat to development? (Am. Eng.)
Reading & critical thinking skills: Identifying the writer’s position -- What exactly is an argument?
Language development: Synonyms -- Simple and progressive verb forms
Writing skill: Formality
Writing task: A formal email to a college professor
Digibook video activity: No man is an island
Study skills: Process writing and peer checking

U2 GAMES
Reading text: After the Games end: Risks and rewards of hosting the Olympics (Br. Eng.)
Reading & critical thinking skills: Identify contrasts -- Identifying references to things outside the text
Language development: Guessing meaning from context -- Expressing contrast
Writing skill: Creating an outline
Writing task: A report on hosting a major sports event
Digibook video activity: Reality TV: The harsh reality
Study skills: Finding an idea to write about

U3 NOSTALGIA Reading text: The shifting sands of memory (Am. Eng.)
Reading & critical thinking skills: Understanding analogies in a text -- Identifying sources of information
Language development: Reporting information -- Condensing information with compound adjectives
Writing skill: Transition sentences
Writing task: An essay on the accuracy of memories
Digibook video activity: Retro-volution
Critical thinking skills: Eyewitness testimony / Stella Cottrell

U4 RISK
Reading text: Risk-takers: Who are they? (Br. Eng.)
Reading & critical thinking skills: Summarizing -- Assessing whether research supports an argument
Language development: Adjective + preposition collocations -- Infinitive phrases
Writing skill: Avoiding plagiarism
Writing task: A summary of a research paper
Digibook video activity: Risky business
Study skills: Evaluating online sources

U5 SPRAWL
Reading text: Solving the problem of informal settlements (Br. Eng.)
Reading & critical thinking skills: Identifying different perspectives -- Recognizing trends and patterns
Language development: Prepositional phrases -- Impersonal report structures
Writing skill: Hedging
Writing task: An argumentative essay
Digibook video activity: The urban footprint
Critical thinking skills: Internal consistency / Stella Cottrell

U6 LEGACY
Reading text: Endangered languages: Strategies for preservation and revitalization (Am. Eng.)
Reading & critical thinking skills: Using headings to understand the main ideas -- Identifying fact, speculation, and opinion
Language development: Words with more than one affix -- Relative pronouns with prepositions
Writing skill: Writing definitions
Writing task: A comparison essay about overpopulation
Digibook video activity: Tracing the family line
Study skills: Academic referencing

U7 EXPANSE
Reading text: Overpopulation: A problem or a myth (Am. & Br. Eng.)
Reading & critical thinking skills: Identifying persuasion techniques -- Assessing the logic of an argument
Language development: Adjective + noun collocations -- Noun (nominal) clauses
Writing skill: Emphasizing your point
Writing task: A persuasive essay about overpopulation
Digibook video activity: Infinite boundaries
Critical thinking skills: Argument: Persuasion through reasons / Stella Cottrell

U8 CHANGE
Reading text: Leadership and change management (Br. Eng.)
Reading & critical thinking skills: Identifying concepts and theories -- Inferring criticism
Language development: Idiomatic language -- Participle clauses
Writing skill: Report writing
Writing task: A business report for a supermarket
Digibook video activity: Shock to the system
Study skills: Editing your work

U9 FLOW
Reading text: How rivers made civilization (Br. Eng.)
Reading & critical thinking skills: Identifying links -- Identifying logical fallacies
Language development: Verbs and expressions with prepositions -- Expressing causality
Writing skill: Writing effective conclusions
Writing task: A cause and effect essay
Digibook video activity: Volcanic flow
Critical thinking skills: Assuming a causal link / Stella Cottrell

U10 CONFLICT
Reading text: Culture and conflict (Am. Eng.)
Reading & critical thinking skills: Identifying causes -- Identifying humor
Language development: Phrasal verbs -- Verb patterns
Writing skill: The writer’s voice
Writing task: An academic essay using an appropriate voice
Digibook video activity: The warrior gene
Critical thinking skills: Relevant and irrelevant evidence / Stella Cottrell