Skills for Study Level 2 Teacher's Book - Cambridge University Press

IntroductionThe Skills and Language for Study course makes communicative activities central,with a view to helping students locate, understand, use and produce authenticwritten or spoken texts. Certain common features of generic study skills books aretherefore not included here. There is, for instance, no specific treatment of skillssubjects like organizing one’s study space, or time management; no advice is givenon how to boost memory or cope with exam stress. Rather, close attention is paidto functional performance in assessed academic contexts such as writing essays andreports, participating effectively in discussions, and giving presentations.Organization of the courseThe course is organized into three levels, with one Skills and one correspondingLanguage book at each level. There are four themed units in each level, withidentical themes uniting each Skills for Study and accompanying Language for Studybook. Source texts on the unit theme are provided in the Skills book, and languageitems are initially drawn from these texts and then analyzed and explored inadditional contexts in the Language books, therefore helping students to understandand use the language they are studying in an authentic academic context. Each unithas 5 Parts (A–E) based on different academic skill and language areas.For instance, in Level 1, Unit 1:Theme: Approaches to LearningPart Skills for Study Language for StudyA Understanding: speaking Understand types of listeningUsing note-taking techniquesUnderstanding strategies foreffective listeningUnderstanding the purpose oflecturesFollowing lectures effectivelyB Understanding: writing Understanding differencesbetween academic text typesChoosing appropriate readingstrategiesUsing skimming, scanning andintensive readingTaking notes while readingUnderstanding the use of stressin sentencesDeveloping strategies forlearning vocabularyUnderstanding modalsRecognizing different wordformsUnderstanding the language ofcomparisonForming and using comparativesand superlativesTeacher’s Notes Skills for Study 2 ∙ Introduction 3