This combined Course Book and Workbook will help you to improve your listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, and give you the confidence to begin your university studies in English. You will learn how to: - speak with good intonation and stress, and clear pronunciation; - use key spelling and grammar rules; - give confident and interesting presentations; - develop your vocabulary (and knowledge) within five useful subject areas; - predict and identify key information in texts; - write accurately, using a wide range of common sentence patterns; - listen for the important points in a conversation, talk or lecture.