‘There are two more ways of learning a new skill Role models You also learn skils from role models. A role model isan important person in our ives ‘ikea good friend parent, teacher, or even someone famous. For example, when a young {ootballe tikes a famous player from their favourite team, they watch this role model lay and then try t0 copy him or her. ‘Changing learned skills ‘Sometimes you learn anew skill andi is very dificult to change it This isa problem fyou ‘eam the skill incorrectly the fst time. Here is some useful advice: * Go back tothe beginning and lean the skill again. + Don't make the same mistakes “+ Be patient and do lots of practice. ‘Gath om Feta 5 & Goon 2008 p26 PE 16 Wed Oxia Oxo Une Pes Read Text 2 again. Take notes on ‘Role models’ and ‘Changing learned skills, Write your notes as flowcharts. Role models Youle a role model + ” Changing learned sls t ‘Work in pairs and compare your notes in 2. Did you write the same notes? +s: a ASK 6 Critical thinking - summarizing information ‘Work in pairs. Match the sentence halves to summarize Texts 1 and 2, ‘Example: Texts 1 and 2 are about how to learn new skills 1 Texts Land 2areabout.... © 2 Copying is when you. 43. Learning from your mistakes is when you .. 4 Leaming from role models is when you 5 Changing learned skills is when you... @ try something listen to feedback, and try it again. 'b start learning skill again from the beginning. © owes kant d watch, remember, and lear. ‘e choose an important person in your life and learn from them, ‘Think about learning English. Which advice from Texts I and 2istrueforyou? camp: copy my tncher when tern new word INDEPENDENT Work in groups. Talk about learning English. Write five sentences fora new agian Pent Use the iden below or your ow sas Give sic or inaction using, | "anthro the presen simple and imperative orm Hees Peingmitates wocting th other tudents wing dinars earning new words time forstudying asking your teacher for help, ‘Example: When you make a mistake in English, write the sentence again correctly. UuniT 18 Reaoine 1s| Writing (1) Sentences about you This module cover: «© Planning and writing sentences with personal information TASK 1 Understanding a personal statement | what is a personal statement? Aperoralstaternt a ton descipon es pros aatestos conten anf ponte fines ‘lt onan apa tm or ners coase or anew 1 Read the student's personal statement. What is it for? an application fora job ata sports centre b auniversity application to study business ¢ an application fora job ata university Personal statement Nur Sadik fam 18 years old and tm from Turkey. | study mathematic, science, and geography atthe British International School in Istanbul In my free time | ike sport and volunteering. Lama ‘member ofthe local basketball team and fm good at tennis. Every Saturday | work ata special centre for children with isabiltes. want to study business at university. | hope to _asajoumnalist for ‘ur school newspaper. 1° to study English at university. 14 tobecomea professional Jouralistin the future. 2: Lan engineering student. am an engineering student. 120 years old. im Yemen, Ama student at Birmingham Universit studies mathematics. ike read books. Y'ma member local football team. plan go to university. In the future, I ike to study economics. 3 Planning and writing personal information down your personal information for points 1-5. Age: Nationality: ‘Secondary school: Interests: University /Job plans: ‘one sentence for each pointin 1. {Tm 19 years old. I'm from Dubai 4 Checking your writing your sentences in Task 8.2 agin, Use ths checkllat to check your wring your fiethecomecrverts? =] sethepresentsimpie? —) iveinteresing information? C] {in pairs. Read your partner's sentences. Use the checklist in Land give ack. uric werrmc ay 17Writing (2) A personal statement This module cover ‘© Analysing a personal statement «© Writing a personal statement using linking language TASK 1 Analysing a personal statement 1 Read two personal statements, A and B. Answer questions @ Which statement has more sentences? b Which words are different in B? © Which statement do you prefer? Why? ‘Statement A {am 19. am from Malaysia. | have an international baccalaureate from the Kuala Lumpur International School School exams are very difficult in Malaysia. | have grade Ain al ‘my subjects. Inmy free time Ike sport. often go running. always play football on Saturdays. am a ‘member of my local football team. We play against other teams. My favourite subjects are history and geography. In the future | hope to study management at university. m interested in business. Statement 8 {1am 19 and | am from Malaysia. | have an international baccalaureate from the Kuala ‘Lumpur international Schaol. School exams are very ctfcut in Malaysia but | have grade A in all my subjects Inmy free time like sport and | often go running. | always play football on Saturdays, because | am a member of my local football team and we play against other teams. ‘My favourite subjects are history and geography, but inthe future, | hope to study ‘management at university because fm interested in business. Tes Linking language (1) ond, but, becouse We often join simple sentences together or add information with linking language. This ‘makes writing easier to read. Join two sentences with and and but. Use and to ada information: [ike sport. ma member of o basketball teom. [ike sport and | om a member of @basketbal teom. Use but to show contrast: | study English don't study mathematics. | study English, but ! don't study mathematics. Use becouse to give a reason: | study English want to work in the USA. | study Enalish because ! want to workin the USA. Use a capital leter (eg. B) at the beginning ofthe sentence. Use a full stop () at the lend, Use a comma () before but {study English, but! don't study mathematics. Mathematics is dificult. a8 unirac waine 2)TASK 2 Practising joining sentences 1 Read personal statement B again and crelethe linking language. 2 Choose the correct word in brackets and join the two sentences. Example: am good at maths and science. Ihave A grades in these subjects. (and / but) am good at maths and science and I have A grades in these subjects. 1 Lenjoy most sports don’t like football. (and / but) 2 [like studying languages. Ihave a C grade in English. (because / but) 3 Tam interested in travel. enjoy meeting people from different countries. (but / because) 4 Lam in the athletics eam at school. [ama member of a local athletics club, (because / and) 5 Istudy musie at school. earn the piano at home. (but / and) 6 [plan to study engineering at university. | hope to be a project manager. (and / but) 7 Thope to become a journalist. ike writing and meeting new people, (because / and) ‘Complete the sentences with personal information. i'm Tm from 2 Wiike -Idon't like 3 Istudy ike i 4 Inmy free time I play play 9 My favourite subjects Idon'tlike 6 [plan to study at university. I want to become a in the future Write each pair of sentences in 3.as one sentence. Use and, but, or because. Check your sentences in 4. 1 Does each sentence start with a capital letter? 2 Does each sentence end with a full stop? 3 Is there a comma before but? TASK 3 Writing a personal statement Note down answers to the questions. How old are you? Where are you from? Where do you goto school? What subjects do you study? Why? acmasea sTuby ‘fer you writen Ents yourwor Pie ou wre, shan chee ffommar tating and Write a paragraph using your notes in 1 Use personal statement Bin Task Lasa | Petuton snort model. Remember to use linking language. = J What do you like doing in your fre time? Why? What are your future plans? What job do you hope to do? Read your paragraph again, Check the capital letters and punctuation in each Sample answors sentence. age 150 ‘wr 2c warning (2) 18TASK 1 Vocabulary-building: Verbs and nouns 1 Look at the words in bold in the pairs of sentences. Write verb (V) or noun (N), Example: A After the lecture, we discuss the topic. V B Thediscussion after the lecture was interesting, N 1A Lwant to teach geography when I leave university B We have two teachers for mathematics. 2 A Most people study English nowadays. B One area of media studies is how we communicate online. 3A Thope to manage my own department one day. B I like to study management at university 4A Whatare your plans for the future? B What subjects do you plan to study? 5 A Lwork at Oxford University and [lecture in history. B My father isa lecturer at Oxford University. 6 A My presentation is about my plans for the future. B I like to present some information about me. 2 Rewrite the sentences so they are true for you. Example: [study engineering at university 1 study English at university, 2 have two teachers for my English lessons. 3 In the future [hope to study management. 4 Lalso plan to open my own business. TASK 2 Collocatior 1 Underline the verb in each sentence. Write the noun that collocates with each verb. exercises lectures notes solutions subjects textbooks videos Example: Which subjects. do you studs? Formy course, Iread alot of different Please make onthelecture, ferb + noun 1 2 3 How often do you do the inthe book? 4 Doyouwatch ‘on your course? 5 Inengineering, we find tothe problem. 6 Acuniversity, students listen to [inperenvent sTuoy Itsimgoan oe the 2 Choose the correct verbs in italics. 1 Nagata pas ios otictaneren 2 Avatar a Maser ges ser A SRIIGE Feo ye pen shag wo of pro, Someeeasiei 4 Your teachers ive / make you feedback. emia tan ipet pecae te ico incr wos. an rary can pi Sr Se tc ays | 120 uNirap vocnsuLaryTASK 1 Talking about now and future plans 1 Write the verbs in brackets in the present simple. it (be) from Oman. 2 Aziz (want / not) to become a project manager. 3 History and geography (be /not) difficult subjects, 4 They (plan) to study science at university 5 He (be) interested in information technology: 6 We (hope) to workin the USA next year 7 She (study) economics at a business school 8 You (like / not) doing examinations. ‘Which sentences in 1 are about now (N)# Which are about the future (FY Smee © ey to 8 is Does Aziz want fo become a project manager? ASK 2 Giving information and instructions or advice 1 paragraph from a university guide. Choose the correct verb form in italics. ‘start you start a new course at university, "need / you need to go 0 every Before the lecture, “try / you tryto read about the subject inthe textbooks. wthe lecture, ‘make / you make notes and ‘listen / you listen carefully After the talk: / you tlk to other tudentsabout the subject. 1t"S/ bea good way to ‘and think about the main points. SK3 and, but, because the sentence halves. 1'm Spanish and. 1m good athistory, but. {plan to do media studies because enjoy sport and... Geography is my favourite subject because. 1'm at school atthe moment, but ete the sentence in three different ways. Tstudy English and ‘study English, but study English because a the teachers good. b T'm from Madrid. like films and TV, Iplay football and tennis. Tm notgood at mathematics F Iplan to start university in September. UNITE ACADEMICLANGUAGE CHECK 62