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Week 1 on an academic English course
Lesson ideas for Week 1 on an academic English course What should you do on the first week of an academic English course? This blog / webpage provides a number of resources suitable for the first week on an EAP course (Presessional, Foundation, or University English...
Procrastination at university
Procrastination What is procrasination? Procrastination is the tendency to put things off until the last moment or beyond the last moment. University students are particularly vulnerable to procrastination, possibly because of the amount of work expected of them, the...
A call for stricter gun control in the U.S.
Academic Lecture & Worksheet A call for stricter gun control in the U.S.Why should America have stricter gun laws? This academic lecture looks at the differences between countries that have and don't have gun laws. It examines statistical evidence related to gun...
Speaking Tasks for academic English
Speaking Tasks (analysis & evaluation) What are academic speaking tasks? This lesson is aimed to develop discussion skills but more importantly to focus on critical thinking strategies of analysis and evaluation. In small groups the students are given a...
Academic Plagiarism: contract cheating
Academic Plagiarism: the use of custom Essay writing servicesWhat is custom essay writing academic plagiarism? This lesson explores how academic plagiarism has changed over the last few years with students using custom essay writing services. These companies will...
Economic Inequality lesson
Economic Inequality Lesson BookWhat is economic inequality? Economic inequality covers a wide variety of topics. It mainly refers to either income distribution or the distribution of wealth. Besides measurements between countries or states, there are important types...
Ethical Consumerism Lesson
Ethical Consumerism ListeningWhat is ethical consumerism? Borg and Regan (2008) describe ethical consumerism as consciously identifying the links between a product, its origins and the context in which it has been produced. They define the term as awareness of how a...
Seminar Signposting Language
Signposting Language in Academic Seminars What is signposting in academic seminar speaking? Signposting language is words and set phrases used in seminars to guide and the focus the discussion. Often in seminar assessments students are expected to use a range of...
Graphs
Describing Graphs This blog offers two great lessons on describing, analysing and evaluating graphs / charts / tables. The first lesson begins with naming different graph / chart types and describing a range of different lines (peak, plummet, etc..). It finishes with...
Academic Word Formation
Academic Word List [AWL] - Word FormationWhat is Academic Word List word forms? The Academic Word List (AWL) is a word list of 570 English words which appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. This lesson helps students to develop an awareness...