Description: The course builds the skills required for lectures, tutorials, reading research and written assignments in English.

Listening skills include:
• note-taking, using scientific numbering
• using lecture handouts effectively
• understanding a speaker's arguments
• understanding concessions
• recognizing start / end of digressions

Speaking skills include:
• clarifying issues in a discussion
• raising / dealing with an objection
• expressing and dealing with uncertainty
• summarizing
• referring to research

Reading skills include:
• highlighting key points
• recognizing and recording sources
• making inferences
• reacting to texts
• understanding sentence relationships

Writing skills include:
• linking sentences
• restating (avoiding plagiarism)
• supporting statements with evidence
• writing about graphs
• using lexical cohesions

Contents: Book maps
Introduction
Theme 1 Geography and the modern world 9
Theme 2 Communication 39
Theme 3 Media and advertising 69
Theme 4 Living life to the full 99
Theme 5 The past, present and future of food 131
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