This book consists of 16 units, each with an authentic reading text and an accompanying exercise to develop reading skills. Various texts and topics such as adverts, newspaper and magazine extracts, book extracts, technical and text material, poetry and interviews are included to stimulate interest. It aims to provide a principled approach to reading skills and includes sections for comprehension and discussion and details on grammar and vocabulary. It comprises a key to closed answers and also has details of each text outlining structure, language, text type and topic, for ease of access.