EAS 500

Course outline.

Programme highlights.

What we'll cover.

1. 01
   Week 1

   Knowledge

   - Understand main ideas and signposting in a presentation. - Identify topics and main ideas in an academic text. - Write simple and compound sentences using coordinators.

2. 02
   Week 2

   Knowledge

   - Talk about experiences using the past simple and present perfect. - Recognize and use general, academic, and technical vocabulary. - Structure and signpost a short presentation.

3. 03
   Week 3

   Organization

   - Understand and take notes on key information in a lecture. - Identify the perspective and stance in a text. - Analyze and structure a paragraph using topic sentences and cohesion.

4. 04
   Week 4

   Organization

   - Identify and express stance in a discussion using useful phrases. - Use pronouns and determiners to maintain cohesion. - Understand and use common academic nouns.

5. 05
   Week 5

   Motivation

   - Predict the purpose of an academic text and recognize cohesive language. - Write definitions using prepositional phrases and relative clauses. - Use evaluative and classifying adjectives.

6. 06
   Week 6

   Motivation

   - Listen for the main points and detailed explanations in a lecture. - Ask for and give definitions in a discussion. - Recognize signposting language (giving an overview, sequencing).

7. 07
   Week 7

   Nature

   - Predict the content of a text and identify supporting evidence. - Use adverbials for cohesion to add context. - Refer to change in progress using progressive forms.

8. 08
   Week 8

   Nature

   - Give a presentation using descriptive language and numerical information. - Prepare to listen to a seminar and use noun phrases in descriptions. - Use adverbials for cohesion.

9. 09
   Week 9

   Power

   - Identify key features of a summary and use noun phrases to summarize ideas. - Analyze active note-taking strategies. - Use suffixes to recognize and build word families.

10. 10
    Week 10

    Power

    - Use past and present tenses to report findings. - Use reporting verbs to refer to points in a presentation. - Summarize and paraphrase longer structures.

11. 11
    Week 11

    Growth

    - Synthesize sources in a paragraph and use reporting structures. - Complete lecture notes by identifying and discussing stance in source material. - Refer to main ideas and respond to opinions in a discussion.

12. 12
    Week 12

    MID-TERM Test

    - Demonstrate mastery of all academic skills and language from Units 1-6. - Apply learned techniques in Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking for the EAS005 level.