Progressive Skills level 4 course builds the skills required for lectures, tutorials, reading research, and written assignments in English.
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Download Progressive Skills level 4: Progressive Skills in English is a new course that prepares students for entry into English-medium study. Progressive Skills in English teaches necessary skills as part of a systematic programme of language development. The course builds the skills required for lectures, tutorials, reading research and written assignments in English. These new separate-skill editions allow students to focus on their individual skill requirements.
Listening skills
Progressive Skills Listening is designed to help students who are at university or about to enter a university where some or all of their course is taught in English.
It includes:
- note-taking. using scientific numbering
- using lecture handouts effectively
- understanding a speaker’s arguments
- understanding concessions
- recognizing start/end of digressions
Speaking skills
Progressive Skills Speaking is designed to help students who are at university or about to enter a university where some or all of their course is taught in English.
It includes:
- clarifying issues in a discussion
- raising / dealing with an objection
- expressing and dealing with uncertainty
- summarizing
- referring to research
Reading skills
Progressive Skills Reading is designed to help students who are at university or about to enter a university where some or all of their course is taught in English. The course helps students in the skills of reading for research.
It includes:
- highlighting key points
- recognizing and recording sources
- making inferences
- reacting to texts
- understanding sentence relationships
Writing skills
Progressive Skills Writing is designed to help students who are at university or about to enter a university where some or all of their course is taught in English. The course helps students in the skills needed to write assignments of various kinds.
It includes:
- linking sentences
- restating (avoiding plagiarism)
- supporting statements with evidence
- writing about graphs
- using lexical cohesions
