Learning System
English Education was mainly focused on the following study skills at IBU English Preparatory School in Skopje.
Reading - extensive / intensive, scanning, skimming, using context clues and vocabulary strategies, recognizing sequence, fact vs. opinion, making inferences, identifying main ideas and supporting details, analyzing text, identifying purpose and tone.
Listening - listening for gist and details, learning topic vocabulary to improve comprehension, for verbal clues, understanding speaker’s argument, understanding colloquial language, learning pronunciation, to summarize opinions, recognize lecture language that introduces the topic or the plan, that signals new ideas, transitions, definitions, examples, explanations, causes and effects, comparisons and contrasts, opinions, citations and quotations, non-verbal signals, note-taking.
Writing -how to write a paragraph, topic sentences, supporting details, concluding sentences; the writing process: prewriting, writing editing; organizing information by: time, importance, space; essay writing: introduction, body conclusion; types of essays: process, division and classification, causes and effects, comparison and contrast, problem/solution, summaries, opinion essay, essays for undergraduate and graduate school applications, personal and business letters; punctuations.
Speaking - descriptions, retelling a story, practical English: in a shop, hotel, at the doctors etc. debates, interviews, giving a talk, discussions: show interest, enter a discussion, interrupt, ask for more information, agree and disagree, support opinion, connect your ideas with other people’s ideas, contribute your ideas, keep the discussion focused on the topic, encourage others to participate, bring to a consensus, learn to compromise, pausing, paraphrasing and quoting.
Grammar - from elementary to upper-intermediate (everything that these levels include by the standards of CEFR)
Vocabulary - personal information, food, health and medicine, houses and decoration, personality and appearance adjectives, family, body, money and economics, science and technology, education, shopping and traveling, entertainment, music, humor, history and politics, man and women, animals and conservation, crime and punishment, business, word-building, and all relevant specific fields connected to the academic vocabulary.
Study skills- Preparing to study, note-taking, strategies for reading textbooks/novels, using reference sources, oral presentations, projects, managing time, setting goals, preparing oral presentations, managing and participating in group projects, consciousness-raising/self awareness,setting self-assessment criteria, developing autonomous learning and language use.
English Education was mainly focused on the following study skills at IBU English Preparatory School in Skopje.
Reading - extensive / intensive, scanning, skimming, using context clues and vocabulary strategies, recognizing sequence, fact vs. opinion, making inferences, identifying main ideas and supporting details, analyzing text, identifying purpose and tone.
Listening - listening for gist and details, learning topic vocabulary to improve comprehension, for verbal clues, understanding speaker’s argument, understanding colloquial language, learning pronunciation, to summarize opinions, recognize lecture language that introduces the topic or the plan, that signals new ideas, transitions, definitions, examples, explanations, causes and effects, comparisons and contrasts, opinions, citations and quotations, non-verbal signals, note-taking.
Writing -how to write a paragraph, topic sentences, supporting details, concluding sentences; the writing process: prewriting, writing editing; organizing information by: time, importance, space; essay writing: introduction, body conclusion; types of essays: process, division and classification, causes and effects, comparison and contrast, problem/solution, summaries, opinion essay, essays for undergraduate and graduate school applications, personal and business letters; punctuations.
Speaking - descriptions, retelling a story, practical English: in a shop, hotel, at the doctors etc. debates, interviews, giving a talk, discussions: show interest, enter a discussion, interrupt, ask for more information, agree and disagree, support opinion, connect your ideas with other people’s ideas, contribute your ideas, keep the discussion focused on the topic, encourage others to participate, bring to a consensus, learn to compromise, pausing, paraphrasing and quoting.
Grammar - from elementary to upper-intermediate (everything that these levels include by the standards of CEFR)
Vocabulary - personal information, food, health and medicine, houses and decoration, personality and appearance adjectives, family, body, money and economics, science and technology, education, shopping and traveling, entertainment, music, humor, history and politics, man and women, animals and conservation, crime and punishment, business, word-building, and all relevant specific fields connected to the academic vocabulary.
Study skills- Preparing to study, note-taking, strategies for reading textbooks/novels, using reference sources, oral presentations, projects, managing time, setting goals, preparing oral presentations, managing and participating in group projects, consciousness-raising/self awareness,setting self-assessment criteria, developing autonomous learning and language use.
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