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Time: 5 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- Are you thinking about starting a college or university course? If so, this unit provides an opportunity for you to reflect on your English language skills. There could be many reasons why you might want...
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| | 1 Am I ready to study in English? | |
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- 2 What sort of English do I need to be able to study at higher education level? Resource
- You may well be confident in using English in everyday situations, but the kind of English you need for study is rather different. It is what is known as ‘Academic English’, or ‘English for Academic Purposes’...
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| | 3 Self-assessment exercises: reading and understanding
- 3.1 Read and understand academic course books and materials Resource
- These exercises are designed to help you assess how easy you find it to understand course materials: to get the overall meaning and the key ideas. You can choose:
- Task 1: Arts Resource
- The following extract is from The Open University course A103 An introduction to the humanities. (The course material here refers to the 1960s.)
- Task 2: Maths Resource
- The paragraphs numbered 1–7, below, are adapted from MU120 Unit 0, Preparing for open mathematics.
- Task 3: Science Resource
- The following extract is from The Open University course S154 Science starts here. Please read the text in the box below then answer the questions that follow it.
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| | 4 Self-assessment exercises: identifying points and expressing ideas
- 4.1 Identify (and make notes on) the main points from written and spoken materials and express ideas in your own words Resource
- The next two tasks are designed to help you think about reading and picking out the main ideas from course materials.
- Task 1: Identifying main points from the text Resource
- The extract below is from a chapter called ‘Whose health is it anyway?’ by Brenda Smith and David Goldblatt (2004) from Open University course DD100 An introduction to the social sciences: understanding...
- Task 2: Making effective notes Resource
- Notes should only include the main points.
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| | 5 Self-assessment exercises: express concepts and ideas in your own words
- Task 1: Summarising ideas Resource
- This task is designed to see if you can summarise ideas from course materials in your own words. Re-read the text ‘Whose health is it anyway’ in the previous section.
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| | 6 Self-assessment exercises: organise your writing so that the meaning of your argument or description is clear
- Task 1: Structure and organisation Resource
- One of the features of good academic writing in English is that it appears to flow from one idea to another. Structure and organisation is important. For example, paragraphs would generally start with...
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| | 7 Self-assessment exercises: using appropriate grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Task 1: Grammar and punctuation Resource
- Please read each of the following sentences, decide how each needs to be changed, and then rewrite it correctly.
- Task 2: Verbs Resource
- Please read these extracts from course guidelines for students. The first is from M150 Data, computing and information. The second is from A103 An introduction to the humanities. Rewrite the verbs in square...
- Task 3: Punctuation Resource
- This final task is designed to help you reflect on your understanding of academic writing and how well you can use punctuation.
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- 8 Self-assessment grid Resource
- For each of the self-assessment tasks/exercises, select skills box A, B or C.
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- 9 What next? Resource
- Having completed the grid in Section 8 you will now have a fairly clear idea about the areas of language use where you feel confident and be able to identify any areas which you may want to develop further....
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| | References and Acknowledgements | |
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