The perfect tenses ? both
present and past ? are
explained and used
prominently in most of these
readers. Many introduce the
passive voice, and most feature
the future tense. Nearly all of
them also include exercises to
develop understanding of the
first conditional, and some
include instruction in all three
conditional forms. More modal
verbs and more complex verbal
constructions ? using gerunds
and infinitives ? are presented.
There is a generally higher level
of vocabulary, sometimes quite
sophisticated.
These readers focus on topics
and vocabulary specific to
contemporary professions:
television production, fashion
design and computerised
banking. Business
procedures and modern
telecommunications
are central to these stories.
Also, these readers use an
Upper Intermediate complexity
of verb tenses and other
grammatical constructions.
