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Senior English Skills Builder, 3E

Part A: Writing Skills
Unit 1 Writing better sentences 
Unit 2 Punctuation and capital letters
Unit 3 Writing topic sentences
Unit 4 Paragraphs
Unit 5 Linking words
Unit 6 Active and passive voice
Unit 7 Improving your spelling and broadening your vocabulary
Unit 8 Common mistakes and commonly confused words
Unit 9 Glossary of commonly confused words
Part B: Reading and Creating
Unit 10 Form and genre 
Unit 11 The language of film 
Unit 12 Characterisation 
Unit 13 Imagery and metaphorical language 
Unit 14 Humour and mood 
Unit 15 Identifying a writer’s views and values 
Unit 16 Pulling it all together: Planning and writing an analytical text response
Unit 17 Analytical text response: Self-assessment
Unit 18 Forms of creative writing
Unit 19 Narrative point of view
Unit 20 Opening lines, dialogue and description
Unit 21 Generating ideas from a text
Unit 22 Pulling it all together: Planning a creative text response and justifying your choices
Part C: Reading and Comparing
 Unit 23 Comparing concepts: Ideas, issues and themes
Unit 24 Comparing features: Plot and events
Unit 25 Comparing characters
Unit 26 Comparing text constructionl Form, perspective, structure and style
Unit 27 Comparing settings
Unit 28 Pulling it all together: Planning your response to comparative essay topics
Part D: Analysing and Presenting Argument
Unit 29 Identifying different types of persuasive texts 
Unit 30 ‘Being positioned’: Author’s intention, context, form, audience and language
Unit 31 Identifying faulty reasoning, bias and illogical arguments
Unit 32 Analysing language: Layout, headlines and tone
Unit 33 Analysing language: Visual texts 
Unit 34 Pulling it all together: Analysing language and argument
Unit 35 Planning an analysis of language and argument
Unit 36 Planning and writing a persuasive argument
Unit 37 Mastering oral communication and planning an oral presentation
Part E: Exam Preparation
Unit 38 Text response examinations
Unit 39 Comparative response examinations
Unit 40 Language and argument analysis examinations
Glossary of metalanguage and literary terms
obook chapters
A1 Using a thesaurus and a dictionary
A2 Acknowledging your sources
B1 Creative writing: Editing, proofreading and self-assessment
C1 Comparative writing: Self-assessment
D1 Identifying an author’s point of view
D2 Analysing language and argument: Self-assessment
D3 Persuasive arguments: Self-assessment

Amanda Ford is a retired English teacher with many years of English teaching experience. Author of the market-leading Successful and Skillworks series.

Elizabeth Haywood  is a retired English teacher with many years of English teaching experience. Author of the market-leading Successfull and Skillworksl series.

Kate Tehan has a Bachelor of Arts and a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching from The University of Melbourne and is currently undertaking a Masters of Teaching (Research). She has taught English in government and Catholic schools in rural Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne. She currently teaches English and Legal Studies at Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak.