Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 8 helps students to practise: conjunctions connectives compound nouns prefixes using speech marks thesaurus words idioms & writing a balanced argument.