Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school, at work and 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 and letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision and attention to detail. Springboard 8 helps students to practise: conjunctions, connectives, compound nouns, prefixes, using speech marks, thesaurus words, idioms and writing a balanced argument.