I always wondered why a lot of teachers of English felt the need to write new books although there are a lot of invaluable books on The Use of English around. Therefore being only one of many ELT teachers until recently I thought that any attempt to try to write anything on this subject would be a case of reinventing the wheel. İn other words I had never thought of publishing such a book until first some of my students then more of my students asked me to write down my lesson plan for public use; put differently they wanted me to share with a widergroup of learners what I present and how I do it in class. Therefore this is what this book is : my lesson plan- with the necessary supplementary material to consolidate the related grammar points for the use of learners who would like to benefit from it. İn other words the material in this book has been devised by my own şelf and adapted compiled and edited with the permission of the METU School of Foreign Languages Department of Basic English Longman Publications and some anonymous sources which I have not been able to trace despite every endeavor made.

This book is intended for upper-intermediate learners of English who are preparing for Proficiency Examinations. The book consists of Use of English with a variety of exercises to supplement them. Very simple language is used in the explanations in order to make comprehension easier whereas the level of difficulty of the language used in the exercises increases. (Preface)