Develop reading skills and acquire the Academic Word List -Explicit reading skills provide the foundation for effective, critical reading -High-interest readings from academic content areas motivate students -Corpus-based examples from the Oxford English Corpus teach real-life English
A few drawbacks that may confuse self-study students: • Certain True/False questions are ambiguous since the Not Given option was opted out. • Some exercises are quite complex and require good understanding/ use of word transformation. • Various kinds of exercises require constant focus and adaptation.
Aside from that, the topics are spot on and effective in practicing academic vocab.