Book Description:The Onward English Skillbooks 1 to 8 will help students with the reading and writing they do every day at school - in English and other subjects. Each chapter is set out as a separate unit of work covering a different type of writing and contains a wide variety of language exercises relevant to that text type. In this book you will find: fifteen chapters, covering text types such as recounts, narratives, poems, information reports, speeches, advertisements, expositions, letters, book/film/ television reviews, articles, instructions, short stories, plays, cartoons, dairy entries, etc. Interesting and relevant sample texts, including many written by students themselves, with important features highlighted exercises and activities in each chapter, directly linked to the text type covered practice in skills such as Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar, Vocabulary and Comprehension practice in the oral skills of Speaking and Listening, with Pronunciation drills practical help with Writing tasks important grammar and punctuation information vocabulary lists to memorise. Between them, the Onward English Skillsbooks and the Onward English Readers constitute a current and exciting eight-stage course for schools
