Helen Monfries

EDITOR'S FOREWORD This book is intended for students of English as a foreign language who have got beyond the stage of reading for fact, simply to gain information, and can now turn their attention to literary style, to the ways in which writers communicate with their readers or listeners. The...

This gives greater weighting than hitherto to the Interview section of the examination. It is now weighted equally with the three written papers. The interview is expected to take approximately twenty minutes and is conducted as follows: 1 The candidate is handed a Picture and about five minutes'...

PREFACE'TO THE SECOND EDITION HOW TO USE THIS BOOK As a result of helpful comments on the first edition of this book, I am taking the opportunity, in this the second edition, of expar mg my advice as to how it should be used. First of all I must make it clear what the book is not. It is not a...