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Teaching Your Subject in English

Cambridge Assessment English

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Check your terminology

Check that you’re confident with the terms below.

  • Activate prior knowledge
  • Assumptions
  • Contraction
  • Elicit
  • Higher order thinking skills (HOTS)
  • Learning objectives
  • Lower order thinking skills (LOTS)
  • Sentence stress
  • Stressed sounds
  • Stress-timed language
  • Unstressed sounds
  • Visual organisers

If you need to check any of this terminology, have a look at the Week 1 Glossary.

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