Sinopsis

The perfect tenses ? both

present and past ? are

explained and used

prominently in most of these

readers. Many introduce the

passive voice, and most feature

the future tense. Nearly all of

them also include exercises to

develop understanding of the

first conditional, and some

include instruction in all three

conditional forms. More modal

verbs and more complex verbal

constructions ? using gerunds

and infinitives ? are presented.

There is a generally higher level

of vocabulary, sometimes quite

sophisticated.



These readers focus on topics

and vocabulary specific to

contemporary professions:

television production, fashion

design and computerised

banking. Business

procedures and modern

telecommunications

are central to these stories.

Also, these readers use an

Upper Intermediate complexity

of verb tenses and other

grammatical constructions.