Unit themes Functions
1 Preparing for university studies
2 Freshers’ week
3 First steps and new routines
4 Finding information
• stating purposes • meeting other students
Texts
• conversations with new students • university websites, letters and application forms
• student personal statements • describing
position, shape and movement
• contacting staff
• instructions and processes
• describing
purpose, method, sequence, frequency and duration
• comparing • contrasting • evaluating
advantages and disadvantages
5 New ideas and new concepts
6 Borrowing and using ideas
• defining • classifying • analyzing • giving examples
• describing change and development
• map • case study • e-mails • university website guidance notes
• how to instructions • lecture on laboratory health and safety
• lectures on linear and cyclical processes
• flow diagrams
• assignment question • student discussion • flier for library • library lecture • texts from Internet • sources for an assignment
• student diary • introductory lectures • definitions • student university assignment draft • student discussion • tree diagrams
• lecture • student discussion • extract from textbook • tutorial • student discussion • introductions to essays • timelines • spidergrams
7 Something to say
8 Linking ideas
• introducing self • contributing to discussions
• giving a presentation
• explaining reason and result / cause and effect
• giving levels of probability
• committee meeting • minutes of a meeting • presentations • feedback discussions • student discussions
• short talk • quiz • flow diagrams • health information website • student high school essay draft • feedback discussion • student university assignment draft • tutorial discussion • model paragraphs
9 Supporting ideas
• reporting data • comparing and contrasting
• explaining trends • supporting claims with data
10 Exams
• interpreting data • all functions
• annual report extract • marketing proposal • university league table • tables and graphs
Academic language
types of nouns word families collocations
formal and informal style to + verb so that + sentence have to
shape nouns noun phrases to name places prepositional phrases for position and movement there is / are
noun phrases to name steps and to show sequence articles starting sentences prepositional phrases for method and sequence general and specific vocabulary passive verbs
general nouns to name features noun phrases to start sentences general to specific organization more than / less than
positive and negative adjectives
general nouns to name classes general to specific ideas in sentences/tree diagrams synonyms prepositional phrases for specific information in definitions relative pronouns
general nouns to summarize starting sentences with topics transitive / intransitive verbs used to + but
general to specific verb tenses
patterns to show interest, confirm and refine ideas word stress sentence stress
general nouns to summarize familiar ideas starting sentences with familiar ideas general to specific development in noun phrases patterns to show probability prepositional phrases for reasons and results result + because; reason + so; as a result + reason; reason + makes
noun phrases to label data general to specific organization to persuade patterns to show relationships in data patterns to show a viewpoint familiar and new ideas in data prepositional phrases for data: more than / most
• student discussion • health information website • exam questions • extract from a textbook • tables and graphs • tutorial discussion • library lecture
4 ACCESS EAP: Foundations
review functional language review noun phrases language of exam questions
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