The most authoritative and comprehensive learning and preparation material for Linguaskill's Reading test. Suitable for both Linguaskill General and Linguaskill Business test variants. Includes:

Reading

• 10 hours of learning and preparation contents.
• Reading skill improvement content, linked to the format of the actual test, as follows:
• Overview. Improving reading fluency; knowledge of fixed expressions, idioms, and collocations; ability to recognise paraphrase; tips and resources for practice.
• Improving Read and Select skills, such as identifying context; diagrams and graphs; formal and informal texts; labels and instructions.
• Improving Gapped Sentences skills, and strategies to tackle them.
• Improving Multiple Choice Gap Fill skills with practices (answers included).
• Improving Open Gap Fill skills with practices (answers included).
• Improving Extended Reading skills, including paraphrasing; inference, attitude, and opinions; general and specific information.
• 5 theme-based learning content, related to the themes in the actual test, as follows:
• Business and the Internet
• Careers and Recruitment
• Health and Safety
• The Service Industry
• Wholesale and Retail
• Each theme is structured and organised as follows:
• Overview gives a brief outline of what the unit covers.
• Thinking Ahead asks questions to start you thinking about the topic.
• Vocabulary contains meaning-focused exercises that helps you with the topic vocabulary needed to understand the texts.
• Short Text 1, 2, and 3 will help you prepare for the Read and Select questions.
• Extended Reading will help you prepare for the Extended Reading questions.
• Vocabulary Extension will help you build up your vocabulary, which is important if you want to score higher in Linguaskill.
• Gap Fill and Gap Fill 2 will help you practise for Gapped Sentences, Multiple Choice Gap-fill, and Open Gap-fill.
• Grammar will help you to practise and develop your knowledge of language structures that will be useful in the Linguaskill test.

Listening

• 10 hours of learning and preparation contents.
• Listening skill improvement content, linked to the format of the actual test, as follows:
• Overview. Improving listening fluency, tips, and resources for practice.
• Identifying the Main Idea and practices to strengthen this skill.
• Identifying Opinions and Feelings and practices to strengthen this skill.
• Identifying Paraphrases and practices to strengthen this skill.
• Making Predictions and practices to strengthen this skill.
• 5 theme-based learning content, related to the themes in the actual test, as follows:
• Jobs
• Ordering and Amending
• Promoting Products
• The Consultant
• The Opportunity
• Each theme is structured and organised as follows:
• Overview gives a brief outline of what the unit covers.
• Thinking Ahead asks questions to start you thinking about the topic.
• Vocabulary contains meaning-focused exercises that helps you with the topic vocabulary needed to understand the texts.
• In Skills 1 you will learn vocabulary and specific language.
• In Skills 2 you will practise grammar and and functional language.
• In Skills 3 you will listen for information that will help you answer the Listen and Select and Extended Listening sections of the actual test.
• In Linguaskill-type Questions, you will have even more practice on the Listen and Select and Extended Listening sections of the actual test.

• Two (2) practice tests, with answers provided at the end of the course.