At the completion of this lesson you will be able to complete a curriculum vitae correctly by using the information from an article about the employee of the month.
At the end of this unit you can give a summary of an article about weblogs.
you can interpret the results of a survey in a short article
You interpret data from statistics indicating how many people are busy with their work when they go on holiday. In the first exercise you learn to replace percentages by corresponding descriptions, so that you can incorporate the data into a text that is easy to read. At the end of the assignment you incorporate all the data into an article for the staff newsletter.
At the end of this unit: You can understand an article about how to behave as a tourist. When performing this task: you have to retrieve the main thought. you have to distinguish important from unimportant information. you have to derive the mean
You can read an article in a consumers' magazine
You can understand a non-specialist article about health conditions at the workplace
you can reflect upon cultural issues in a short article
At the end of this unit: You can understand a scientific article on traveling to other galaxies. When performing this task You have to identify sentences in direct and indirect speech. You have to rewrite direct speech into indirect speech
you can understand the advice in a magazine article about educational issues
An information-based society necessitates good writing in all careers: Many scientists and technical professionals must write progress reports, analyses, literature reviews, or other documents to communicate within their workplaces, and many must also address more general audiences in grant proposals, conference papers, articles, and so on. This course is designed to serve as a basic introduction to the practice of technical writing for those who work as scientists and technical researchers. Because scientific and technical fields are becoming more interdisciplinary and more globally connected everyday, we will also consider intercultural communication issues at some length.
At the end of this unit: You can read an article on parenthood and compare it with your own experience. When performing this task, You have to look up some typical sayings in the text. You have to summarize the different paragraphs of the text.
At the end of this unit: You can write a press article on the protest at Brussels Airport. When performing this task, You have to follow layout and paragraphing conventions. You have to structure information into an article.
Students will identify the parts of a newspaper sports article in order to plan and write their own sports article.
At the end of this unit: You can understand an article about mass tourism. When performing this task: you have to spell place-names correctly. you have to look for the meaning of a number of assertions and expressions. you have to look for the cons
You can give information about a cultural institution in a short article
At the end of this unit you can deduce guidelines from an article about toys safety regulations.
After this chapter you will be able to write a report for a newspaper concerning an historic event.
