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 | |