Here is a place and cyberspace where you can ask questions, exchange ideas and practise your English.
The first week of the final month is nearly over and there is a lot of information to get out to you!
SELF STUDY:
Remember you should be working on problem areas each afternoon (as well as doing your homework and researching your essay). If you don't know where to begin take a look at these links below:
SUBJECT AREA
Listening
A lot of lectures at: http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~wcl8/sacll/lectures.php. Maybe you could use them for note taking practice.
Some excellent lectures (but difficult) at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith/
EASE CD-ROM: UNIT 5: Significance and attitude: “Note-taking”, “Vocabulary” and “Conclusion”.
Have a listen to as a lecture at: http://www.llas.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb062/Unit3/li_spinal/page_01.htm. This site gives you a lot of exercises and a long 23-minute lecture.
Listen to more lectures and do some good exercises at: http://www.llas.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb063/eap/04/du4s50404.htm
Exercises on note taking while listening at: http://www.llas.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb063/eap/03/cdu2s30103.htm
Intensive listening at: http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/trailers/trailersindex.htm
Some excellent lectures (but difficult) at: http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=1110
TV programmes and exercises at: http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html
Reading
Academic Encounters: Unit 8: pp180-187: Friendship.
Readings with exercises at: http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/tsindex.htm
Readings with exercises at: http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cae/students/tests/pt1index.htm
Study Skills
An interesting website of different ways of learning at: http://www.llas.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb064/studyskills/01/xs70305.htm
Identifying study skills at: http://www.llas.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb063/eap/06/identifying_the_study_skills_you_need.htm
Writing
A lot of academic writing exercises at: http://www.essex.ac.uk/myskills/skills/writing/default.asp. Includes introductions, conclusions, style, note taking and more.
Learn about “Reporting: paraphrase, summary and synthesis” at http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm
What is good academic writing? This is a discussion on what makes good writing. http://www.llas.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb062/Unit4/wr_or_02_x/page_02.htm
Information and tasks related to referencing at: http://www.essex.ac.uk/myskills/skills/referencing/referencingSkills.asp
Tutorials and exercises on paragraphing at:
http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/paragraph/index.html
This is a discussion on what people find difficult when they write. http://www.llas.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb062/Unit4/wr_or_03_x/page_02.htm
Nine or ten good exercises on using information in your writing at: http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm
A good exercise on structuring your essay: http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/essay/4ai.html
Organising paragraphs at: http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm. There are a lot of exercises here, some of which are difficult.
A lot of exercises on writing paragraphs at: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/llc/academic-writing/
An exercise on understanding the question at: http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/functionsexplanation.htm
More exercises on understanding the question: http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/essay/2b_q1.html
An interactive exercise on structuring an essay:
http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/effective/2ai_q1.html
A site on structuring your essay:
http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/essay/4biii.html
Example Essays
An essay outlining both sides of an argument:
http://users.dragnet.com.au/~dalythom/argueweb/bothsds.htm
An essay on tourism: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/llc/academic-writing/sample-essay.html
A clear example of an essay:
http://users.dragnet.com.au/~dalythom/argueweb/modelmp.htm
A site with a number of marked essays: http://www.jcu.edu.au/studying/services/studyskills/essay/sample.html
Presentations
Listen to a presentation at: http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/materialsbank.aspx?resourceid=2722
A good presentation at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/courses/eap/links/learning_resources.htm. (You’ll have to scroll half way down the page fro the speaking videos.
Pronunciation
Practice individual phonemes at: http://www.shiporsheep.com/
Do an exercise on word-stress for business vocabulary at: http://www.uefap.com/speaking/multi/stress.htm
Vocabulary
Using concordances to improve your vocabulary at: http://www.llas.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb063/eap/07/zs10208.htm
Vocabulary for tables and diagrams at: http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm. (You’ll need to scroll down the page to find the exercises – there are about 7 or 8)
An exercise on discourse markers at: http://writingworkshop.edtec.unsw.edu.au/activities/trans2.html
A fantastic site that allows you to copy and paste an essay into a ‘gap maker’. The gap maker will then take all the ‘academic’ vocabulary out and give you an exercise:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm
Read vocabulary specific to your subject at: http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm
Grammar
A LOT of tests at: http://www.vnn.vn/vnn4/test/
Shows how to produce noun phrases: http://www.llas.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb063/eap/05/vs70402.htm
Improve your tenses at: http://www.english-4u.de/grammar_exercises.htm
A lot of grammar exercises and tests at: http://www.world-english.org/
More grammar exercises at: http://aliso.cnice.mecd.es/~jchamero/home.htm
A lot of grammar and punctuation exercises at: http://www.smic.be/smic5022/Onlineexercises.htm
A very big website with grammar quizzes, punctuation and vocabulary at: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm
A LOT of good descriptions of grammar points (no exercises) http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/
Referencing and Plagiarism
Read more important information about avoiding plagiarism at: http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm
A very eay-to-understand site on referencing at: http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/lskills/open/sfl/content/harvard/citing/index.html
A pdf about referencing at: http://www.une.edu.au/tlc/students/publications/referencing.pdf
Research
Learn about qualitative and quantitative research at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlos/ebp/qvq/index.html
Month 3 Project - Globalization Essay:
You will find a list of links in your English Course workbook but also have a look at what's available from the Global Policy Forum (www.globalpolicy.org ) and Harvard Working Papers (www.hbswk.hbs.edu )
Essay introductions and outlines are due next Friday (29th August) so you need to get cracking on your research this weekend.
FREE TIME
It's a Bank Holiday weekend so get out there and explore London.
Have you been to....
Greenwich (you could take the River Taxi http://www.london-taxi.co.uk/guides/london/entertainment/river-cruises.htm) ?
Spitalfields Markets http://www.spitalfields.co.uk/markets.php ?
The Prince Charles Cinema http://www.princecharlescinema.com/ ?
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