Avenues 2, 2nd ed.

Your roadmap to excellent English skills!

Avenues 2: English Skills, Second Edition is an integrated skills book for students of English as a second language at the intermediate level. Written by Lynne Gaetz, Avenues 2 maps out a clear and structured path to success. With a high proportion of new content, this edition provides students with level-appropriate reading and listening practice based on a wide range of texts and high-interest audio and video segments. Revising and editing practice, vocabulary boosts, pronunciation practice and guided writing and speaking tasks help students improve their production skills. This second edition also features Quick Chat activities that introduce students to the chapter themes, and a Reading Strategies section.

Avenues 2: English Skills features:

• a wide range of engaging texts: reading, listening and watching texts of high interest;
• revising and editing:  revising and editing strategies that comply with the MELS Devis to help students become more autonomous when producing texts;
• language reinforcement: solid support integrated throughout with Vocabulary Boosts, Pronunciation Tips and Writing Workshops with step-by-step instructions to develop students' vocabulary and production skills;
• helpful reading strategies:  effective reading strategies and exercises;
• contextualized grammar:  Grammar Links to practise contextualized grammar points related to other readings;
• written and oral productions:  a variety of theme-related writing and speaking topics as well as production tasks to consolidate information learned.