Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; How to use this book; ACTIVITIES; PART 1; 1.1 Explaining and Describing; 1.2 Narrating; 1.3 Predicting and hypothesising; 1.4 Asking and answering effective questions; 1.5 Note taking; PART 2; 2.1 Understanding and using complex structures; 2.2 Analysing and generating different types of text; 2.3 Matching language to context; 2.4 Debating; 2.5 Inference, idiom and irony; Resources