Course Objectives

This course aims to enhance all four Academic English language skills:

• Speaking
• Listening,
• Reading,
• Writing
This academic training modules is designed for student wo need to demonstrate their English language proficiency for further study.

READING

This section aims to strengthen reading skills essential for academic success.

• Skimming and Scanning: Learn techniques to quickly skim and scan various reading passages to identify key information.
• Text Elements: Identify and reproduce essential elements of a text in personal writing, enhancing comprehension and
writing skills.
• Question Types: Gain a deep understanding of different question types encountered in reading exams and develop
strategies for addressing them effectively.
• Vocabulary Context: Practice deducing the meanings of unknown vocabulary through context clues, improving overall
reading comprehension.
• Analysing Point of View: Recognize a writer’s perspective.
• Timed Reading Tests: Complete reading tests within the allotted time to build test-taking strategies and manage time
effectively.

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LISTENING

This section focuses on developing listening skills crucial for academic communication and understanding.

• Listening Test Patterns: Recognize the presentation and question patterns in listening tests and learn effective strategies
to address them.
• Predictive Skills: Develop predictive skills to anticipate content and context before engaging with listening tasks.
• Understanding Discourse: Demonstrate comprehension of both academic and everyday discourse, including
conversations and lectures.
• Main Ideas and Supporting Details: Identify main ideas and distinguish relevant supporting details in various listening
texts.
• Overall Comprehension: Enhance overall listening skills for better comprehension of general information and specific
details.
• Identifying Key Information: Accurately identify numbers, dates, times, letters, and other critical information during listening
exercises.

WRITING

This section focuses on developing essential writing skills for academic success

• Essay Types: Gain experience in writing various essay.

• Report Writing: Develop skills to write brief reports that analyse graphs, tables, and charts accurately.
• Statistical Data Interpretation: Interpret and describe statistical data using appropriate language and grammatical
structures.
• Enhanced Vocabulary and Grammar: Demonstrate improved vocabulary and a range of grammatical structures to
enhance writing quality.
• Text Summarization: Summarize the main ideas of various text types effectively.
• Editing Skills: Cultivate the ability to edit written work accurately for clarity and correctness.
• Writing Tasks: Complete writing test tasks within the allotted time to build efficiency and confidence.

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SPEAKING

This section focuses on developing essential speaking skills for academic and professional contexts

• Understanding the Speaking Test: Recognize the different sections speaking test to navigate it effectively.
• Conversational Skills: Confidently engage in conversations on a variety of topics.
• Self-Evaluation: Develop the ability to evaluate and self-correct speaking performance for continuous improvement.
• Expressing Opinions: Learn to formulate, express, and defend opinions using appropriate vocabulary and grammatical
structures.
• Fluency and Clarity: Answer questions fluently with clear pronunciation to improve overall communicative effectiveness.
• Timed Speaking Tasks: Complete a speaking test within the allotted time to build confidence and time management skills.

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MODULE READING SPEAKING LISTENING WRITING GRAMMAR

Using First Speaking Topic Understanding the Report writing: Present tenses
Paragraph to make • Interview: All general conversation • Describing Bar
WEEK ONE prediction about you • Task: Sentence Chart
completion
• Sentence Speaking Topic Watch and listen to Report writing: Present Continuous
completion • Describing an podcast on the internet • Describing Bar Tenses
• True-False- individual (friend/ • Short-answer Graph
Not Given role model) questions; MCQs

Past Tense
Descriptive Speaking Topic Identifying similarity & Report writing:
WEEK TWO Passage: Matching • Media difference • Describing Pie
List/ Phrases (Newspaper) • Short-answer Chart
questions; MCQs

• Highlighted Speaking Topic Watch news: CNN Report writing: Past Continuous
terms, • Media (Book that • Describing Table: Tense
vocabulary had major • Task: Sentence Tabular column/
and other influence on you) completion Tabular array
facts

Recognizing a Speaking Topic Understanding context & Describing Map Present Perfect Tense
WEEK THREE Topic sentence • Describing an connected speech. • Compass
environment, • Short- direction:
places answer North/South/West/
questions; East

• Prediction Speaking Topic Listening For Time Describing Map Present Perfect
• Discussing about • Prepositional Continuous Tense
and
food and eating
Matching habits • Task: sentence and other
features. completion use phrases
phrases of time

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WEEK FOUR Looking for Speaking Topic Distinguishing Similar Opinion Essay: Pastt Perfect Tense
Supporting Details • Discussing about Sounds • Agree or
education and
school rules. • Short-answer Disagree
questions; MCQs
• Matching Speaking Topic Listening for the correct Opinion Essay: Past Perfect
headings; • Discussing about spelling and word form • Advantage & Continuous
leisure activities Tense
Short- disadvantage
answer
questions
• Task: Diagram
Using Key Worlds Speaking Topic labeling Essay writing Future Simple Tense
WEEK FIVE • Discussing about • Problem &
transport
solution (Cause
& Effect)
• True-False- Speaking Topic • Task: Table Essay writing Future
Not Given • Discussing about completion • Comparison – Continuous
tradition culture Tense
Similar data

Locating Speaking Topic • Task: Flow chart Formal Letter writing Future Perfect Tense
WEEK SIX Information • Discussing about completion • Applications,
influences on the
young complaint letter
• Task: Summary
• Identifying Speaking Topic completion Letter Writing Future Perfect
information not • Discussing about • Invitation letter Continuous Tense
sport
given
• True-False-
Not Given

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