Cambridge academic English : an integrated skills course for EAP. Advanced, Student's book
Hewings, Martin2012
Book
A three-level (B1+ to C1) integrated skills course for higher education students at university or on foundation courses. Student's Book consolidates academic study skills. Students' analytical skills are challenged with an increased range of authentic written and spoken academic texts.
Main title:
Cambridge academic English : an integrated skills course for EAP. Advanced, Student's book / Martin Hewings and Craig Thaine ; Course consultant: Michael McCarthy".
Author:
Imprint:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.©2012
Collation:
176 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Series title:
Notes:
"C1" -- On cover.
Audience:
For secondary students.
Contents:
Being an independent learner -- Adopting good study strategies -- Finding information about research projects -- Writing a research proposal -- Unit 1 Advertising and critical thinking -- Reading critically -- Preparing to read -- Note-taking -- Vocabulary in context: compound nouns -- Inferring relationships between sentences -- Nominalisation -- Reading in detail -- Pros and cons of group work -- Getting an opportunity to speak in a group discussion -- Writing a summary -- In-text referencing conventions -- -ing clauses with prepositions and conjunctions -- Prepositions after passive verbs -- Problem words: affect vs effect -- Unit 2 Innovation and invention -- Lectures, note-taking and follow-up reading -- Vocabulary in context: word families -- Vocabulary in context: hedging -- Reading in detail -- Asking for and giving clarification in group work -- Word stress -- Writing summaries from multiple sources -- Reference lists --.Contents note continued: Using gender-neutral language -- Complex conjunctions -- Adjective compounds with well-, ill-, poorly -- Seminar skills A -- Preparing for seminars Listening Seminar skills Follow up -- Seminars and lectures -- Good business language -- Practice in gist and detailed listening -- Understanding new terms -- Understanding the tutor's instructions -- Understanding tutor feedback -- Further listening -- Unit 3 Facing challenges -- Following the writer's argument -- Vocabulary in context 1 Focusing and evaluative adverbs -- Vocabulary in context 2 Adjective compounds -- Reading in detail -- Working with colleagues: problem solving -- Understanding instructions in essays and other assignments -- Developing an argument in an essay -- Style in academic writing -- Complex prepositions -- Items in lists being -- Unit 4 IT in education and business -- Preparing to read a research article -- Checking predictions -- Producing slides from texts --.Contents note continued: Vocabulary in context 1 Recognising the relationship between pieces of research -- Vocabulary in context 2 noun/verb + preposition -- Reading in detail -- Reasons for referencing -- Presenting professionally -- Introducing presentations -- Presentation practice -- Using evidence -- Writing up research: a research proposal -- Subject-verb agreement -- Tense choice in reporting verbs -- Common prefixes in academic writing -- Seminar skills B -- Preparing for seminars Seminar skills Listening Follow up -- Working in groups -- Understanding task instructions -- Giving a feedback presentation -- Organising a group presentation -- Introducing a group presentation -- Creating an effective presentation -- Giving a mini-presentation -- Unit 5 Culture, science and society -- Preparing to read -- Identifying the main points -- Understanding meaning in context -- Vocabulary building: formal and informal verbs -- Reading in detail -- Evaluating websites --.Contents note continued: Giving opinions in presentations -- Presentation practice -- Using primary and secondary sources -- Writing practice -- Writing up research: writing an introduction -- Complex noun phrases 1 -- Classifying nouns -- Compound adjectives -- Specialist terms: collocation -- Language-announcing goals in research paper introductions -- Unit 6 Ways of studying in higher education -- Reading efficiently -- Practice in reading efficiently -- Understanding the relationship between research findings -- Vocabulary in context: movement up and down -- Vocabulary building: dependent prepositions -- Reading in detail -- Presenting and explaining results in charts -- Presentation practice -- Choosing between paraphrase and quotation -- Quotation conventions -- Writing up research: the literature review -- Writing practice -- Complex noun phrases 2 -- Producing compound nouns as-clauses: referring to the work of others of which: expressing ideas efficiently --.Contents note continued: Lecture skills C -- Preparing for lectures Listening Language focus Follow up -- Thinking about the content of lectures -- Understanding introductions -- Understanding detailed points; making notes -- Understanding the main point -- Recognising quotes -- Recognising examples that support key points -- Responding to questions posed in a lecture -- Lecture structure -- Unit 7 Marketing and consumers -- Evaluating academic texts: a book review -- Vocabulary building 1 Understanding complex noun phrases -- Vocabulary building 2 Word families -- Reading in detail -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Presentation practice -- Organising information in sentences -- Writing up research: the Methods section -- Irregular plural nouns -- Noun + passive verb combinations in Methods sections -- Using it-clauses to organize Information -- Word families in texts -- Problem words: adopt and adapt -- Unit 8 Criminology -- Making predictions --.Contents note continued: Vocabulary building 1 adjectives -- Vocabulary building 2 verbs -- Reading in detail -- Understanding plagiarism -- Dealing with questions in presentations -- Presentation practice -- Organising information in texts -- Writing up research: the -- Writing practice -- Problem words: comprise, be composed of, consist of, Results section constitute, make up, include -- Classifying phrases -- Problem-solution phrases -- Word order in as-clauses -- Lecture skills D -- Preparing for lectures Listening Language focus Follow up -- Thinking about the content of lectures -- Vocabulary for the context -- Practice in gist and detailed listening 1 -- Recognising lecture introductions -- Recognising lecture styles -- Practice in gist and detailed listening 2 -- Understanding lecture structure -- Further listening practice -- Unit 9 Families and relationships -- Reading Listening and speaking Writing vocabulary -- Understanding the writer's opinion --.Contents note continued: Inferring the meaning of words -- Vocabulary building: word families -- Reading in detail -- Understanding figures -- Your relationship with your supervisor -- Formality and politeness in arranging meetings -- Writing a critique -- Writing up research: the Discussion section -- Collocation: evaluative language in critiques -- Hedges -- Problem words: tendency, tend, trend -- Comparing results in Discussion sections -- Unit 10 Communicating science -- Reading Listening and speaking Writing vocabulary -- Following the argument in a long article -- Working with your supervisor: ending a meeting -- Writing practice -- Editing your work -- Writing up research: the Abstract -- Punctuation: colons and semi-colons -- Conditional expressions -- Lecture skills E -- Preparing for lectures Listening Language focus Follow up -- Discussion on culture -- Vocabulary for the context -- Understanding slides and predicting content --.Contents note continued: Practice in gist and detailed listening -- Signposting language -- Referring to diagrams -- Further listening -- What happens in lectures.
ISBN:
9780521165211 (pbk Students bk)0521165210 (pbk Students bk)9780521165211 (paperback Students book)0521165210 (paperback Students book)
Dewey class:
428.07
LC class:
PE1128
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
427173
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