Overview
This topic provides an intermediate level of academic English while developing students’ underlying English skills. Students continue to review the fundamentals of sentence structure, grammar, and the key aspects of organisation, style and use of language while also being introduced to more complex language and structures to express complex ideas.
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Aims
In the reading component, students use texts that contain more complex ideas and/or language to continue to make predictions about text content, and further develop their skimming and scanning skills for text orientation and identifying important features of the text (such as main ideas or specific language), as well as reading for specific information.
In the writing component, students are introduced to more of the basics of essay writing by reviewing paragraph structure and the use and organisation of introduction, body, and concluding paragraphs, as well strategies to build cohesion in writing. As part of academic writing, students study effective planning, including note-taking and outlining paragraphs.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Identify main ideas of paragraphs and longer texts (500 – 1000 words)
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Scan texts to locate relevant details to complete a specific task (e.g. to answer true/false questions)
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Identify the purpose of a text
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Recognise supporting ideas and specific information such as statistics and time references, and definitions or explanations
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Recognise simple cohesive language or devices in a text
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Understand relationships in a text such as cause and effect, comparison and contrast, or process
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Use contextual clues to guess the meaning of new words
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Demonstrate an understanding of academic vocabulary appropriate for this level (matched to the CEFR B2 level vocabulary)
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Develop and present a clear argument in a defined writing task
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Accurately use a range of grammar up to and including CEFR B2 level to express ideas appropriate to the topic and task
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Demonstrate appropriate choice of vocabulary at CEFR B2 level, including word classes, to express ideas suitable to the topic and task
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Use a variety of linking words and other cohesive devices to demonstrate and develop the relationships between ideas and increase cohesion
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Paraphrase accurately
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Incorporate information from the provided text(s)
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Edit to correct unity, coherence, and accuracy
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