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- Prepare and give presentations,
- Participate in classroom discussions using skills for turn-taking, clarifying, agreeing, disagreeing, introducing new topics, using appropriate body language
- Negotiate in academic contexts
- Participate in a formal debate
- Give and support personal opinion with explanations and examples.
- Give extended responses
- Participate in casual conversation
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- Listen to a variety of audio/visual texts in an academic context.
- Identify target audience, purpose and register of audio/visual text
- Listen for general information
- Listen for main ideas
- Listen for specific information
- Understand and infer meaning from context
- Predict information
- Identify audience, purpose and register or audio/visual text.
- Listen and take comprehensive note identifying key ideas and supporting information.
- Listen to audio/visual information and respond either verbally or in writing.
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- Read complex academic texts including essays, reports, newspaper articles, magazines, journals, Short stories etc.
- Identify structure of texts and main grammatical and lexical features of each text type
- Identify targeted audience, purpose and register of text
- Read for global understanding
- Read for main ideas and specific information.
- Develop skimming and scanning strategies.
- Critically analyse online texts for authenticity and relevance.
- Read and take notes of key ideas
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- Write a range of academic texts for a variety of purposes and audiences such as:
- Opinion Essay
- Discussion Essay
- Research Report
- Procedural Text
- Formal Letter
- Develop writing process skills:
Brainstorming
Planning
Drafting
Editing
- Referencing sources and writing Bibliographies
- Paraphrasing
- Summarising
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