Course topics.

Try this with English as an Additional Language

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Section 1 format, timing and the two-listening strategy
• Note-taking from lectures and talks: keywords, numbers, names and abbreviations
• Part A task types: completing tables and diagrams, summarising and planning from a listening text
• Answering short comprehension questions precisely: marks, command words and question word order
• Context, purpose and audience in spoken texts: speeches, interviews and information sessions
• Identifying purpose and a specific target audience with evidence
• Reliability, trustworthiness, fact versus opinion and bias
• Persuasive techniques: identify, exemplify and explain the effect
• Emotive techniques and emotive language: how texts make readers feel
• Visual and multimodal features: layout, images, colour, typography and calls to action
• The comparison question: which text is more convincing, with evidence from both
• Reading Texts 4-6: highlighting arguments, evaluating sources and interpreting data
• Choosing a text type: essay, persuasive piece or report and their conventions
• Planning and structure: introductions, synthesised body paragraphs and conclusions
• Paraphrasing and synthesising sources without copying
• In-text referencing under exam conditions: Harvard author-year and integrated citations
• Analysing personal, social and cultural perspectives and developing a point of view
• Academic register: nominalisation, passive voice, hedging and formal vocabulary
• Grammatical control and proofreading: agreement, tense, articles and sentence boundaries
• Cohesion, connectives, vocabulary range and idioms