In this section, you are encouraged to share your ideas about being a successful student with your fellow learners and to practise using the new vocabulary and language features you …
Congratulations on finishing Week 2 of English for Academic Study. We hope you have enjoyed the course and found it useful. Over the last two weeks you have: explored the …
What did you find most difficult this week? Is there anything you’re still unsure about? If you have any questions about anything we’ve covered this week, now is your opportunity …
In this video, Professor Sheena Gardner, professor of applied linguistics at Coventry University, defines some of the key aspects of university study, including different genres of writing and the differences …
Watch Omar explain how his experience of lectures, seminars, tutorials and independent learning differed from his expectations. The way words are defined in a dictionary and what they mean in …
What did you find most difficult this week? Is there anything you’re still unsure about? If you have any questions about anything we’ve covered this week, now is your opportunity …
Watch Omar a Coventry University student, explain which type of dictionary he found the most useful. Your task While you are watching, try to note down the positives and negatives …
Now that we have listened for gist and understand the main points from the video, it is important that we listen again and try to focus on the detail that …
In this video, key members of the leadership team at Coventry University discuss the characteristics of successful students. Watch the video for gist and focus on recording only the key …
In this video, Mary Forbes, Director of Pre-sessional English at Coventry University, introduces you to this short course. This is the first course in Coventry University’s Pre-sessional English Online award. …
Look at the differences between Farah’s and Omar’s emails. Farah Omar I will make a great experience you will have a great experience Will I have to work difficult You …
In this step we will learn more about collocates and how they can make your writing clearer and easier to understand. Words that go together well in English are called …
Now that you have defined some of the key terms and methods of teaching used in UK universities, it is time to think about how to share what you have …
Now it’s your turn to practise writing your own definitions. Read the following excerpts from Professor Gardner’s video and use the information in the video and the Macmillan Dictionary Online …
Now let’s look at the structure and grammar of definitions using another key term defined by Professor Gardner. Recording our definition Professor Gardner also gave us the following definition of …