Practice Makes Perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

The challenging exercises and critical vocabularyyou need to advance your English skills

Created by ESL instructor Diane Engelhardt, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Reading and Comprehension features lengthy, complex passages to help you develop essential English reading and critical thinking skills. Inside are 15 readings on topics such as DNA evidence, sustainable urban communities, the human genome project, and more--subjects that will keep you engaged as you take your English to the next level.

You will get plenty of practice, practice, practice onunderstanding and comprehending high-level vocabularythrough enlightening exercises. You’ll master how toorganize information you read, summarize text, and more.Before you know it, your reading skills will be stronger and your comprehension will grow, enabling you to get more out of English-language texts.

Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Reading and Comprehension will help you:

• Build your academic and technical vocabulary
• Boost your comprehension skills to an advanced level
• Create reading strategies to use with any difficult text
• Develop critical thinking skills

Diane Engelhardt has been an ESL instructor for more than 20 years. She has taught conversational and business English to a wide variety of students in Canada and Germany. She also has prepared students for TOEFL, Cambridge First Certificate, and London Chamber of Commerce. She currently teaches at Royal Roads University International Student Centre in Victoria, Canada.