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UITM Merbok - The English Language Proficiency Roadmap - New

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Authors

  • Kamisah Ariffin
  • Nur Hidayatulshima Omar
  • Geraldine De Mello
  • Misyana Susanti Husin
  • Nurhamizah Ishak
  • Norizul Azida Darus
  • © ACADEMIC BOOK AVENUE First published in 2024 Total 302 pages

Descriptions

Level B1/B2 CEFR Aligned
The English Language Proficiency Roadmap is designed for ESL students who aim to enhance their overall English language proficiency. This book supports the students in the development of grammar, reading, writing, listening and speaking skills at the basic level. This comprehensive guide provides detailed information and useful advice for each skill, serving as a valuable reference, especially for independent study.

For instructors, The English Language Proficiency Roadmap can act as a primary resource or complement existing teaching materials. It approaches the development of grammar, reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills similarly to individual skill-based books, offering structured content for comprehensive learning.

The English Language Proficiency Roadmap is divided into five components: Grammar, Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. Escalate Your Language Competence is designed to introduce and explain the fundamental grammar rules of the English language which intends to help students acquire precision in the language. This component provides extensive coverage of English parts of speech and tenses to escalate students’ grammatical accuracy.

  • Boost Your Listening Skills is devised to help students pay attention to what is being said and respond appropriately to what is asked. Listening is a communication skill and requires focused attention. This component provides students with the strategies involved in listening and the many practices that follow to equip them with the listening skills.
  • Elevate Your Reading Skills focuses on enhancing reading comprehension skills, aiming to equip students with not just the capacity to comprehend text but also to develop their critical thinking skills. This component provides instructions for enhancing reading efficiency while offering valuable learning resources and exercises to enhance students' overall reading experience.
  • Enhance Your Speaking Skills is a comprehensive component designed to empower individuals on their journey towards effective and confident verbal communication. This component aims not only to elevate students’ verbal proficiency but also to instill confidence needed to articulate ideas with clarity and impact.
  • Expand Your Writing Skills is constructed to polish up writing skills stage by stage, starting from strengthening the writing foundation first before training students on how to accomplish specific writing tasks successfully. This component provides structured instructions in the form of writing strategies, multiple writing exercises and a variety of sample essays to facilitate effective mastery of writing skills.
  • Audio, Audio Scripts and Answer Key are provided in this link here. Please download.


Contents

 

Preface

The Authors

 

iii

iv

ESCALATE YOUR LANGUAGE COMPETENCE

Unit 1

Dictionary Skills

The importance of dictionary skills

Learning how to use a dictionary

 

3

Unit 2

Parts of Speech

Determiners

Nouns

Pronouns

Verbs

Adverbs

Adjectives

Conjunctions

Prepositions

Interjections

 

9

Unit 3

Simple Present Tense

 

24

Unit 4

Simple Past Tense

 

29

Unit 5

Simple Future Tense

 

33

Unit 6

Present Continuous Tense

 

38

Unit 7

Past Continuous Form 

 

43

Unit 8

Present Perfect Tense 

 

47

Unit 9

Past Perfect Tense

 

51

 

Sample Test I

 

56

 

Sample Test II

 

 

58

BOOST YOUR LISTENING SKILLS

Unit 1

Introduction to Listening

 

63

Unit 2

 

Listening for Gist

 

66

Unit 3

Listening for Specific Information

 

71

Unit 4

Listening to Predict and Interpret Information

 

77

Unit 5

Listening for Note-taking

 

84

 

Sample Test I

 

89

 

Sample Test II

 

93

ENHANCE YOUR SPEAKING SKILLS

Unit 1

Speaking for Socialising

 

99

Unit 2

Describing People

 

107

Unit 3

Describing Objects of Things

 

111

Unit 4

Describing Movies

 

115

Unit 5

Describing Pictures

 

119

Unit 6

Carrying out a Discussion

 

125

 

Sample Test I

 

132

 

Sample Test II

 

138

ELEVATE YOUR READING SKILLS

Unit 1

Before You Read

Pre-reading activities

 

147

Unit 2

 

While You Read: 

Identifying Main Ideas And Specific Details

158

Unit 3

While You Read: 

Interpreting Word Meaning

 

169

Unit 4

While You Read: 

Understanding the Mechanics in Reading

180

Unit 5

While You Read: 

Identifying True and False Information

 

188

Unit 6

While You Read: 

Distinguishing Fact from Opinion

 

195

Unit 7

While You Read: 

Answering Referential and Inferential Questions

 

204

Unit 8

After You Read: 

Drawing Conclusions and Making Judgment

 

217

Unit 9

Interpreting Non-Linear Texts

 

224

Unit 10

Sequencing and Matching Information: 

Gapped Texts

 

234

 

Sample Test I

 

241

 

Sample Test II

 

250

EXPAND YOUR WRITING SKILLS

Unit 1

Sentence Structure

 

261

Unit 2

Paragraph Writing

 

268

Unit 3

Narrative Writing

 

276

Unit 4

Descriptive Writing

 

283

 

Sample Test I

 

287

 

Sample Test II                                                     

                                                                                                                     

289

References

 

294